Out of the past 12/3/14

1989

A large, stained-glass window depicting the Nativity is dedicated at the morning worship service at Centenary United Methodist Church; the window is a gift from Barbara Rose Rust in honor of her husband, Harry W. Rust.

UNIONTOWN, Mo. -- The final observance of the East Perry County sesquicentennial celebration of the Saxon immigration is held in the afternoon at Grace Lutheran Church; guest speaker is Dr. Paul Spitz, president of the Missouri District of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

1964

Basic agreement has been reached on a major change in planning for the improvement of North Sprigg Street that would mean a relocation of the street along a straight line to Bertling Street.

The Cape Girardeau Police Department is once again at full strength following the swearing-in yesterday of Dan O. Harman as a probationary patrolman; the appointment fills the vacancy left by the resignation of patrolman Donald Petri.

1939

New officers for Cape Girardeau Camp No. 34 of United Spanish War Veterans are elected; Frank S. Bise of Oran, Missouri, is re-elected commander; other officers are senior vice commander, C.J. Winningham of Cape Girardeau; junior vice commander, C.M. Barnes of Marston, Missouri; officer of the day, W.H. Hartman of Oran; officer of the guard, J.F. Lawler of Cape Girardeau; and trustee, Ben G. Rudert of Cape Girardeau.

The starting lineup for the Teachers College basketball Indians will likely be veterans Carl Mayer, Herbert Mulkey, Bill Parker, Herbert Richmond and Tony Agosti; the season will open tomorrow night, when the Indians take on an alumni team composed of players who led the Tribe to its only championship title in the MIAA Conference in 1936.

1914

Cape Girardeau's free reading room and public library is growing so rapidly that the committee in charge has seen fit to hire a regular librarian; with the Wednesday Club paying her salary for at least the first three months, the committee hires Helen Coerver as its first librarian.

Harry L. Albert, formerly a teacher at the Normal School here and now in the real estate business in St. Louis, writes that he is leaving that city for London, where he will live for several months.

-- Sharon K. Sanders