Out of the past 6/11/14

1989

An open house at the Cape Girardeau Public Library honors Cape Girardeau's longtime music man, Raymond "Peg" Meyer; the 86-year-old Meyer recently authored a book about his life: "Backwoods Jazz in the Twenties."

While residents in the Pemiscot County area of the Bootheel are being warned of a tornado and severe thunderstorms in the evening, the Cape Girardeau area receives a "million dollar rain"; nearly 2 1/2 inches of rain falls here; a tornado touches down south of Steele, Missouri, resulting in at least one injury.

1964

The Cape Girardeau School Board has awarded a contract to Elfrink Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau to supply and build a steel building on the Central High campus to house the auto mechanics shop; the price is $21,400.

Construction of a sewage collection and treatment system in Cape Girardeau is in its last stage and is expected to be turned over to the city next month; final electrical work at the plant and at lift and grit removal stations remain to be done; testing of the plant equipment is scheduled for next week.

1939

The newly renovated Red Star Baptist Tabernacle is rededicated at special services in the afternoon; principal speaker will be the Rev. S.H. Frazier, pastor of First Baptist Church at Harrisburg, Illinois; Dr. H.H. McGinty, pastor of Cape Girardeau's First Baptist Church, gives the dedicatory prayer; the exterior of the frame church has been done over to resemble brick, and the interior has a new plywood finish.

Marion Reed has arrived from Philadelphia to assume a position as assistant superintendent of nurses and anesthetist at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

1914

John Holcomb, the well-known farmer living 3 miles north of the city on the Bend Road, broke his ankle last evening; he was out in a field cutting wheat and was riding on a binde when the machine tilted so far that Holcomb fell off his perch, lighting heavily on one leg; the foot turned under him, and the ankle snapped.

Cape Girardeans are suffering through a heat wave at the moment; yesterday's high reached 101 1/2 degrees; today's reading is 97 at 3 p.m., but a slight breeze is making the temperature easier to deal with.

-- Sharon K. Sanders