Pictures of the Past #67

July 8, 2014

G.D. Fronabarger left the Missourian boxes and boxes of negatives. What he didn't leave were IDs for them. Pictures of the Past features some of Frony's images we've partially identified. We're hoping you can help fill in the blanks. Contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com, if you recognize a place or a face. Mystery Galleries may still be viewed on our History Page, http://www.semissourian.com/history/

Jim Brown recognized these farmers: "Picture #67 is of two farmers from McClure, Il.. The one on the right is John Rhymer and the one on the left is Cal Cook."

A fire destroyed the northeast section of the Hotel Idan-Ha, Milady's Shop and the Rainbow Coffee Shop on June 29, 1968, at Broadway and North Fountain in Cape Girardeau. Read more about the story in this blog by Fred Lynch: <a href="http://www.semissourian.com/blogs/flynch/entry/30915">www.semissourian.com/blogs/flynch/entry/30915</a>

In November 1959, this new boiler was one of two identical units being installed at Saint Francis Hospital on Good Hope Street, replacing smaller and outmoded equipment. The boiler was 9 feet high and 8 feet wide, weighing 18 tons. The boilers were installed by E.A. Pollack Co.

It was a busy Cape scene Tuesday, April 25, 1961, as volunteer workers who conducted a house-to-house solicitation during the evening brought in money received for the cancer fund. Tallying clerks at the table, from the left, were Mrs. Richard Young, Mrs. George Peters, Laura Gerlach, Judith Jauch, Mrs. Dan B. Cotner and Mrs. Robert Taylor, while in the background members of the auxiliary police assisting were Dennis Penrod, A.E. Smiddy, W.N. Westrich, Orville Werner and Vernon Fee. Solicitors reporting in with funds were, from the left, Mrs. James Wulfers, Mrs. Harry Wilkinson, Mrs. Vinson Rueseler, Mrs. Naomi Stage, Mrs. Eugene Meinz, Mrs. Paul Kratz, Mrs. Charles King and Mrs. Emil Heisserer. More than 1000 persons assisted in the campaign in which $4,677.65 was given. This was $414.03 more than was contributed in a similar effort last year.

Help us put the names to the faces of these proud cattlemen.

A test run by National Guardsmen of amphibious craft stationed in Cape Girardeau was made May 10, 1961, in the Little River Diversion Channel's floodway to prove the craft worthy just in case they are needed for evacuation work. The big "Ducks" moved quite easily against debris collected from the flood and were ready for emergency use.

Two student nurses accepted papers from a nurse on the steps of Southeast Missouri Hospital in this undated photograph. Do you know the names of these women?

Oct. 10, 1957 Southeast Missourian. Training School kindergarten pupils, accompanied by their teachers, rode a Frisco passenger train to Chaffee at noon Tuesday, the trip the first train ride for many of them. Pupils making the trip were Joe David Lowes, Marian Hirsch, Barbara Knote, Barbara Brown, Pam Sheets, Rhonda Sue Preston, Debbie Brandt, Pam Uhls, Rita Beth Vandivort, Georgiann Ringland, Mike Morrison, David Cochrane, Tommy Lovinggood, Kim Kurka, April Storz, Barbara Foulks, Mary Louise Otto, Chris Naeter, Mark Englehart, Dan Cotner, Guy Matthews, Frank Kinder and Freddie Saliba. Teachers accompanying them were Miss Louise Gross, director; and Misses Sue Muegge, Nancy Statler, Elaine Pickel and Joan Hermann. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)

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