Out of the past: Sept. 18

1991

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's Board of Directors has endorsed the proposal for the city's purchase of the Cape Girardeau water system from Union Electric; the council has placed an $11.8 million bond issue on the November ballot to allow voters to decide whether the city should purchase the water system.

The Lexington Avenue arterial project soon will be extended to Route W near Kingshighway on the city's west end; all but a small section of temporary roadway is paved on the section of the street from Carolina Lane to Route W.

1966

Paul T. Eastland of Clinton, Iowa, is scheduled to arrive tomorrow to head a capital-funds drive for St. Mark Lutheran Church; the church, now at the new Teen Age Club on Broadview, will ask for pledges of support for a building program at Three Mile Creek Road, just off Highway 61 North; Eastland is a fund-raising director for the Lutheran Laymen's Movement for Stewardship of the Lutheran Church in America.

Students of State College are special guests at services at Church of the Nazarene; after the morning service, there is an all-church dinner at the activity center, with the college students as guests of honor.

1941

With business houses closed in the afternoon in observance of the occasion, Cape Girardeau rolls out to stage its own "day" at the District Fair; the racing program gets underway in the afternoon, with more than 50 race horses are here for the various competitions; tonight's entertainment will include a concert by the municipal band and a jamboree by the WLS National Barn Dance troupe.

Cotton is rolling in Southeast Missouri and business in district towns that depend a lot on the quantity and price of the staple each autumn are finding it doesn't take a defense program to improve their sales; cotton is bringing $100 per bale or more, and the average yield is nearly a bale to the acre.

1916

Robert Lamkin goes to St. Louis to spend a day or so buying furnishings for the new Buckner-Ragsdale store; he expects to move into the new building before the end of the month.

Forty-one new pupils enter the Cape Girardeau Public Schools this morning; they had probably remained out in order to attend the fair each day; now that that important event is over, Supt. J.N. Crocker believes about 50 more will be registered within the next few days.

-- Sharon K. Sanders