Out of the past: May 12

1990

U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson, aided by State Rep. Mary Kasten, cuts the ceremonial ribbon at the new Cape Girardeau County Veterans Home. Plans for the event are dampened somewhat by rain, and the dedication ceremony is moved indoors.

Mrs. Missouri Fay Grojean of Sikeston, Missouri, is a special guest at Arthur's clothing store model search at West Park Mall. She will compete for the Mrs. USA title May 27 through 31 in Las Vegas.

1965

The upper two stories of the Marquette Hotel will be occupied next school year by 88 male State College students under an agreement reached by the college and the hotel owners; 44 hotel rooms on the two floors are involved in the initial agreement, but the arrangement may be expanded to include the top four floors if the response is good.

A site for the proposed construction of a new Saint Francis Hospital at the northeast corner of Gordonville Road and Mount Auburn Road has been purchased. The 21-acre tract was purchased from the Drury Materials Co.

1940

Girardeans who attended the 102nd annual convention of Christian Churches of Missouri at Springfield, from Monday to Thursday, have returned home. They were Dr. John A. Abel, Christian Church pastor; the Rev. R.M. Talbert, Christian minister; Judge and Mrs. I.R. Kelso; and Mrs. W.C. Brewer. Abel was elected to the state board of the Missouri Christian Missionary Society, and Judge Kelso was named to the committee on recommendations for the 1941 Christian Church international convention.

A Cape Girardeau woman is swindled out of $55 by a strange woman working a time-worn fortune-telling scheme. The victim, a widow with four small children, had been saving the money to pay some doctor bills.

1915

A big parade of Knights of Columbus is held in the morning, a feature of the convention. Starting at the foot of the courthouse hill on Spanish and Themis streets, the bedecked Knights parade around Main Street to Broadway and then out to Sprigg Street and Haarig; from there, the parade it goes to St. Vincent's Catholic Church, where a High Mass is celebrated. This evening's big event in conjunction with the convention will be a concert of the Choral Club of St. Louis at Academic Hall Auditorium.

Jim Kinder, the Haarig druggist, is the owner of the first Dodge car to be delivered in this city. To initiate the car, Kinder drove to Jackson last night and this morning takes a spin to Dutchtown.

-- Sharon K. Sanders