Out of the past: Nov. 24

1990

For the first time this year, the Cape Girardeau Evening Optimist Club is selling locally grown Christmas trees. The Optimists' tree lot is in the Town Plaza.

Pete's Pumps and Deli, 1001 Broadway, is under new ownership. Chuck and Paula Goodale recently purchased the business from Basil and Tish Barnes. Chuck Goodale previously worked 12 years as a United Parcel Service driver.

1965

Members of the Cape Girardeau City Council agree the airport bond issue, narrowly defeated here yesterday, should be resubmitted to the voters. The proposal to issue $880,000 in general obligation bonds was supported in the special election by a 3,098 to 1,701 margin, but it wasn't enough to scale the formidable obstacle of the required two-thirds majority.

City and Missouri Utilities workers almost have completed putting up street decorations for the Christmas season. Retail merchants own the decorations, and the city and utilities company cooperate in the work of stringing them at intersections and taking down the baskets of artificial roses.

1940

Josef Meier, who plays the role of the Christ in the Passion Play being presented at the Teachers College auditorium, speaks in the evening at the regular meeting of the senior and junior division of the young people's department at Centenary Methodist Church. His topic is "What Playing the Christus Has Meant to Me."

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Fire of undetermined origin during the night destroys "The Gables," a large frame building on Highway 60 three miles south of here in New Madrid County. The structure, which flourished as a nightclub and gambling resort, closed two years ago.

1915

F.J. Tacke, who lives in Arnsberg, has taken up engineering. He has land on both sides of the old Indian road that runs through the village, and which has been made a public road. In order to eliminate the opening gates when taking stock from one side of the road to the other, Tacke has conceived the plan of tunneling under the road so as to have free access to the land on the other side. He has begun work on the project. The tunnel will be lined with concrete to avoid landslides and cave-ins.

Mrs. Jane Halbert of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Will Etheridge, in Oak Ridge. Etheridge fell several weeks ago and broke her hip. This is Halbert's first visit here since she married several years ago.

-- Sharon K. Sanders