Out of the past: Oct. 9

1990

The Cape Girardeau School Board votes unanimously to cancel all school district classes Dec. 3 and 4, partially because of the Dec. 3 earthquake prediction.

Speaking at a breakfast here for U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson, Marilyn Quayle, the wife of Vice President Dan Quayle, says the nation's budget stalemate is the result of a "very arrogant Congress" and the ultimate solution is to elect more Republicans.

1965

The Jackson sesquicentennial celebration committee presents gifts to two longtime residents of Jackson; the resident of the city the longest time was found to be Mrs. Rose Sachse, 88, who has lived in Jackson all her life; coming in second was Will Savers; he, too, was born in 1877, but at Leemon; he moved to Jackson when he was 4 years old.

Robert G. Little, son of Mr. and Mrs. P.R. Little of Cape Girardeau, has been sworn in as a member of the Missouri State Highway Patrol; he is a former member of the Cape Girardeau Police Department and his father is a former sergeant in the patrol and former chief of police in Cape Girardeau; two of the new trooper's brothers, Jack and Bill Little, and his brother-in-law, Bill Adams, are in the highway patrol.

1940

Republicans, with the assistance of a number of independent or anti-third term Democrats, put on their biggest political show in years last night; Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio and former governor Arthur M. Hyde headlined a Republican rally at Houck Field House; a crowd of nearly 1,500 was present for the event.

Egg-throwing, a "sport" with which Republicans from their presidential nominee down have had to contend this political campaign, came to Cape Girardeau at the GOP rally at Houck Field House last night; while former governor Arthur M. Hyde was speaking, an unidentified prankster slipped in the back door of the building and errantly threw an egg that splattered over an American flag near the podium, but missed Hyde.

1915

The students and teachers of the Cape Girardeau Business College had an outing and wiener stew yesterday afternoon at Cape Rock; the students walked to Cape Rock in a body.

One of the smallest animals for its age ever seen in Cape Girardeau is led through the main business streets in the morning to be shipped to Oran, Missouri; it is a colt, 4 months old and weighing only 60 pounds; at that age, the animal should be much larger, but it is hardly bigger than an adult collie; Jack Adkins acquired the midget horse in Bollinger County and is sending it to Barney Wagner of Oran.

-- Sharon K. Sanders