Out of the past: May 21

1990

The Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau is expected to crest later today at 39.8 feet, about one foot below the earlier 41-foot flood crest forecast; drier air is moving into the region that should bring an end to the stormy weather, at least for the next six to 10 days.

THEBES, Ill. -- Investigators with the Coast Guard's marine safety office at Paducah, Kentucky, are trying to determine why a barge tow hit the Mississippi River railroad bridge here yesterday; there were no injuries, and nothing spilled into the river.

1965

State College is negotiating for the purchase of four houses on the west side of the 300 block of North Henderson Avenue; the houses are currently rooming houses, and those operating them would be asked to continue to do so; in the future, the houses would be torn down to make room for new campus development.

The last passenger rail service to Cape Girardeau would be discontinued, if a compromise proposal agreed to by the Frisco Railroad is put into effect; under the compromise, Frisco would operate on a one-year trial basis one passenger train daily, making round trips between St. Louis and Oklahoma City, and Kansas City, Missouri, and Birmingham, Alabama.

1940

David Marshall of Illmo, who graduated this week from the Teachers College, has purchased the Jimplicute, a weekly newspaper at Illmo, and will assume management of it immediately; the paper was purchased from Helen Purcell, who has operated it since the death in 1934 of her father, E.L. Purcell.

Having finished an eight-month postgraduate course in ear, nose and throat at Washington University's School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dr. Garland Reynolds is home and will be associated with Dr. M.H. Shelby in the practice of eye, ear, nose and throat.

1915

President S.S. Thompson of the area baseball league has called a meeting of managers and officers for next Tuesday in Cape Girardeau; rumors are circulating that the Poplar Bluff, Missouri, club is about to drop out of the league.

Isham Randolph, probably the most eminent engineer in the country, is in the district making an inspection tour of the work done so far on the Little River Drainage District; Randolph is employed by the district to give his advice and check up on the work done by the engineers on site.

-- Sharon K. Sanders