1990

Greg Macke, who leases the Black Forest villages and lodge in Cape Girardeau County from the East Perry Lumber Co., has opened them to special group functions and meetings; the villages -- New Hanover and Ansberg -- are replicas of 19th century German communities.

City Councilwoman Mary Wulfers wants the city to consider limiting the terms of city advisory board members; she says the change would result in more citizens participating in municipal government.

1965

DEXTER, Mo. -- A 1959 graduate of Dexter High School was led to his death yesterday in an ambush by two apparent Viet Cong agents who posed as his friends; the victim, Peter Hunting, 24, of Oklahoma City, was shot while driving in the Mekong Delta south of Saigon.

Registration of Cape Girardeau County voters reaches the 3,000 mark, about one-fourth of the total estimated 12,000 potential voters in the county, outside Cape Girardeau; aiding in the initial registration has been a registration station that has moved throughout the county for the convenience of voters.

1940

Supplementing its preliminary offer, Mayor Hinkle Statler has filled out and forwarded to Washington a written proposition from the city offering space in Courthouse Park for the new federal building; in return, the city would get title to the present federal building on Broadway.

Funeral rites for fire chief Robert J. Kammer, who died Monday, are conducted in the morning at St. Vincent's Catholic Church, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery; a number of district firemen are here for the services, with some volunteering to man the local station during the funeral hour.

1915

Football for Cape Girardeau this season came to a disastrous end yesterday; a bunch of Charleston, Missouri, players, made up of high school and YMCA athletes, came to town and gave the Normal School team a drubbing, 14-7; it was the last game of the season for the Normal; the local high-school boys will play one more game, when they go to Poplar Bluff, Missouri, on Thanksgiving Day.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- William Hunter is having 15 houses built on his land in the lowlands near here and farther west; by next spring he will have about 1,000 acres cleared a mile or so from Chaffee; all the land between the Frisco and the Dutchtown road and the Cotton Belt and some north of the Cotton Belt will be cleared.

-- Sharon K. Sanders