Out of the past 3/29/13

1988

Attorney General William L. Webster, who filed for re-election yesterday, brings his campaign to Cape Girardeau; the 34-year-old Republican meets with supporters in the morning at the Holiday Inn on the second day of a nine-city tour.

Indian canoes, steamboats and barges are appearing on the walls at Washington School; Jackson artist Craig Thomas is painting an 85-foot mural at the school, depicting transportation on the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau.

1963

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Fire ripped through the MFA grain storage building in Perryville yesterday, causing damage estimated at more than $100,000; the blaze apparently was touched off by sparks and heat from welding in the tower where grain is shot into the bins.

Tooting horns, laughing girls and colorful uniforms dot the State College campus as the first of 3,000 pupils from about 50 district high schools compete in the annual music contests.

1938

A 1,400-mile drive along the Mississippi River, from Duluth, Minn., to New Orleans, is being touted by a representative of the National Park Service; the highway, which would run parallel to the river, would be made highly attractive to local and long-trip tourists.

The Cape Girardeau School Board is trying to think of ways to curb night skating on the Central High School walks and grounds; superintendent L.J. Schultz says a large group of roller skaters congregates there on warm nights.

1913

Luke Hodges, an architect and contractor of Sikeston, Mo., has accepted a position as traveling representative for the Union Mill and Lumber Co. of Cape Girardeau; he plans to move his family as soon as he can find a home; he then will likely build a house to suit his taste; Hodges was the contractor for the magnificent Methodist church built a year ago in Sikeston.

Henry Steinhoff Jr., a young farmer of near Neelys Landing, is in Cape Girardeau; he reports that the creeks in his neighborhood have been out of their banks and quite a lot of damage has been done.

-- Sharon K. Sanders