Out of the past 5/7/14

1989

ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Dr. Ralph Bohlmann, president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, is the featured speaker at the 150th anniversary outdoor rally of Trinity Lutheran Church; the afternoon event is held at the log college/seminary park across from the church.

Southeast Missouri State University's commencement exercises are held at the Show Me Center; 644 undergraduates and 38 graduate students are honored.

1964

Cape Girardeau County Court tells County Collector Bill W. Rose to keep the branch collection office open in Common Pleas Courthouse; the court says the office should be maintained until the court meets with city officials and works out an agreement on the office.

Two $400 breathing machines purchased by the Cape County Tuberculosis Association have been put into service at Saint Francis and Southeast Missouri hospitals; the machines are used to assist patients in breathing.

1939

Heavy loss is sustained during the night by Reinhard Zschille, when a fire of unknown origin destroys the large barn on the farm belonging to Fritz Zschille, two miles north of Jackson near Highway 25; with the barn, the fire consumes 500 bushels of corn, 20 tons of hay, a new binder, a grain drill, all harnesses, wagon and farm machinery, also two fine mares, two valuable mules, one colt and one calf.

Two thousand voices are raised in hymns at the Lutheran celebration of the centennial of the Saxon immigration to Missouri, held at Teachers College auditorium in the afternoon by Lutheran congregations in the Cape Girardeau County Circuit.

1914

The brick work is started on Charles Mayer's new home on South Ellis Street in the morning; it will be only a short time before it is completed.

Presumably attracted by the tremendous strides Cape Girardeau is constantly making, another physician is coming here to live and practice his profession; Dr. W.A. Schoen of Appleton is in the city calling on real estate dealers and others for possible houses to rent.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__