Out of the past: Oct. 17

1991

The Mississippi Queen made an unscheduled, 40-minute stop at Cape Girardeau yesterday afternoon to discharge an ill passenger who was having difficulty walking. She was taken to a local hospital and is expected to be transferred to a hospital near her home in western Missouri.

The federal prosecutor's satellite office in Cape Girardeau will operate for six months from the second floor of a city bank. The office will be in the Capital Bank building at 325 Broadway. A six-month lease was signed for the space until quarters for the satellite office can be readied at the Federal Building here.

1966

The County Court directs architect Fred E. Dormeyer to go ahead with plans for remodeling in the county courthouse at Jackson. The work will move the sheriff's department to the second floor in the room now occupied by the county school superintendent. One of the two rooms used by the assessor also will go to the sheriff for a special office.

Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce members have cast 195 ballots so far for directors for the new year. Executive vice president Allen Robinson reminds members Wednesday is the deadline for voting.

1941

Around 2,000 educators are taking part in the second day's activities of the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association 66th annual conclave. The big windup will be this evening at Houck Stadium, when the Teachers College team engages Warrensburg College in a football game.

Thirty-five handicapped children from Cape Girardeau and adjoining counties are examined in the Crippled Children's Clinic held in the Education Building of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. William J. Stewart, director of the Missouri State Crippled Children's Service, is in charge of examining patients and prescribing treatment.

1916

Cape Girardeau experienced the greatest Democratic rally in its history. An immense crowd of 6,000 is here for the speaking, which starts at the fairgrounds at 2 p.m. Addressing the eager crowd are William Jennings Bryan, Gov. Elliott W. Major, Sen. Frank McAllister, congressman Joseph J. Russell, W.E. Vandiver and others.

The first train load of dirt is unloaded by the Frisco in the morning on the levee where the new sea wall has been built; it is 20 cars in length, and every car is loaded high with material brought from the pit 5 miles north of Cape Girardeau, where several thousand carloads of dirt will be obtained in the next two or three months.

-- Sharon K. Sanders