Out of the past: Nov. 21

1991

Thanks to federal grant money, the libraries at Cape Girardeau Central High School, Junior High and L.J. Schultz are now computerized. The equipment was installed last week at the senior high, and the junior-high library has been computerized about two weeks. The equipment was installed this week at Schultz.

Notre Dame High School has hired a full-time development and public-relations director to coordinate fundraising efforts of the school. Felecia J. Blant will begin her new duties next week.

1966

Word is received from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., that an archaeological discovery made by Floyd M. Vavak of Cape Girardeau, an amateur archaeologist, "does indeed appear to report an important archaeological discovery." The copper plate found by Vavak has been described by the University of Missouri as being a "Wulfing Plate," created by American Indians in the 13th or 14th century.

The County Court notifies Albert C. Lowes, attorney for the Cape County Public Water Supply District No. 1, it is still not satisfied with road repairs being made following the laying of water mains in the county.

1941

At a meeting of Cape Girardeau City Council members and a citizens' committee, it is decided to send a delegation representing the city to Toledo, Ohio, in the near future to contact F.J. Stranahan in regard to the purchase of the river-traffic bridge here. Those delegates will be Mayor Hinkle Statler, Clyde D. Harris, Robert Vogelsang and E.L. Markham.

Red foxes have become so prevalent in Missouri, particularly in some Southeast Missouri counties, that even fox hunters have complained. The reason for this is where there are too many foxes and too many tracks to contend with. Farmers say hungry foxes make too frequent raids on their poultry flocks.

1916

The ladies who have been carrying on a correspondence with the Carnegie Corp. in an effort to secure a public library for Cape Girardeau have received a letter saying the corporation will give $20,000 for a library building, providing the town passes a resolution agreeing to set aside no less than $2,000 a year for its maintenance. A short time ago, the city council adopted a motion agreeing to set aside from the general revenue a sum equivalent to a one-mill tax, which at the present time will amount to a little less than $3,000 a year.

John Reynolds, the well-known painter, is nursing a badly injured hand and a few scratches as the result of his automobile getting beyond his control in the morning and crashing into the Woolworth building on Independence Street.

-- Sharon K. Sanders