Out of the past: Sept. 4

1991

More than 14,000 students are enrolled for the fall semester at three higher-education institutions in Southeast Missouri, including more than 8,300 at Southeast Missouri State University; an estimated 3,000 students are enrolled at Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff, Missouri; and nearly 2,700 are enrolled in classes at Mineral Area Community College at Flat River, Missouri.

The 1991-92 Area Wide United Way campaign officially begins with volunteers working toward a goal of $470,000; the money raised will be distributed to 25 community agencies.

1966

Celeste Lawin of Detroit is inducted as a member of the faculty of Trinity Lutheran School during the morning worship service at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau; she is a 1966 graduate of Concordia Teachers College at Seward, Nebraska, and will teach the third grade.

Mark R. Sander, son of Mrs. Joy J. Simmons of Illmo, arrives at Central Methodist College in Fulton, Missouri, where he will be a freshman.

1941

At a special session yesterday, the Cape Girardeau City Council approved the appointment by Mayor Hinkle Statler of Marshall F. Morton as chief of police, succeeding Edward Barenkamp, who resigned to take another job; Morton, 41, is a World War veteran and has been on the police force here four years.

Plans for greatly increasing the seating capacity of the grandstand at the Arena Building in the new city park during the SEMO District Fair, Sept. 16 to 21, were made last night at a meeting of the fair board; additional facilities ordered by the board will bring the seating capacity to around 3,300.

1916

According to reports, there are 7,000 to 8,000 people in Chaffee, Missouri, attending the Labor Day picnic given by the labor organizations of the Frisco Railroad; the feature of the morning's observance is a long parade of decorated floats, 70 of one kind or another.

Having had a hankering for farm life these many years, Herman Bock, bill poster and circus agent, is to have that desire gratified at last; tomorrow, he will move his family to 40 acres, more or less, about three miles north of Cape Girardeau and go to the plow and harrow with a vengeance.

-- Sharon K. Sanders