Out of the past 9/15/14

1989

SEMO District Fair president Don Strohmeyer laments that the four-day attendance figure is down 2,000 from last year; the blame is placed squarely on the cool, threatening weather; in front of the grandstand this evening will be the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Highway 101; tomorrow's big attraction will be the Country Music Showdown with Mickey Gilley.

Tri-Con Industries, a major supplier of seat covers for automobiles, is expanding to the former Wal-Mart building at the corner of Kingshighway and William Street.

1964

The District Fair opens at Arena Park and will run through Sunday; in front of the grandstand in the evening is the gospel group Ozark Harmony Boys.

Designed and constructed at the Missouri Dry Docks Co. here, two unique traveling gantry hoists, Diesel powered and self-propelled, soon will be handling hatch covers aboard the two largest oceangoing barges ever built; the hoists will go aboard barges 420 feet long, 80 feet wide and 34 feet deep to be put into service ferrying coal from Orange, Texas, to Tampa, Florida, by the American Bridge Co.

1939

Through the courtesy of Clarice Andrews of Fredericktown, Missouri, and Allen L. Oliver of Cape Girardeau, the Cape Girardeau County Historical Society is in possession of a 61-page transcript of the Old Bethel Church record; the record begins with May 7, 1821.

Several hundred fish are rescued from borrow pits along the diversion channel and east of U.S. 61 by men working under the direction of conservation agent Ralph G. Ranney; the game fish and catfish are released into the channel, while about 150 pounds of rough fish are turned over to the black men who helped with the work.

1914

The Normal School is in full blast again; the three weeks of vacation were very busy getting the buildings and grounds ready for the new term; in Academic Hall, all the electric wiring has been put in conduits for safety, which necessitated much replastering; a new road was made across the farm, and a handsome concrete bridge built over the large ravine.

Henry Mueller of Jackson passes through here on his way home from Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, where he spent the summer; he was employed in the park all summer.

-- Sharon K. Sanders