RecordsAugust 7, 2019
Out of the past: Aug. 7
Sister M. Adelma Seyer celebrates 60 years as a school sister of Notre Dame at a morning Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral; officiants are her brothers, the Revs. James and Francis Seyer; Bishop John J. Leibrecht of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese is also present; a basket dinner follows at the parish center...
1994
Sister M. Adelma Seyer celebrates 60 years as a school sister of Notre Dame at a morning Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral; officiants are her brothers, the Revs. James and Francis Seyer; Bishop John J. Leibrecht of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese is also present; a basket dinner follows at the parish center.
As part of a yearlong program observing the 100th anniversary of Evangelical United Church of Christ, the Rev. A. Gayle Engel, conference minister with Missouri Conference of the United Church of Christ in St. Louis, is guest speaker at the morning worship service.
1969
Some kind of additional jail space for Cape Girardeau County is going to have to be found in the near future, says Sheriff Ivan E. McLain; the sheriff says there has been a steady growth of prisoners in the jail during the past three years, and it is no longer uncommon for the jail to be housing more than the 18 for which it was built.
The Chancel Choir of Zion United Methodist Church at Gordonville sings at services at Lake Boutin in Trail of Tears State Park, at which the walking Methodist evangelist, the Rev. Billy Richardson, former State College athlete, is speaker; Richardson is completing the first half of a 1,200-mile walk along the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
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1944
Four Southeast Missouri soldiers -- three of them from Cape Girardeau County -- may have lost their lives the same day, April 28, in what may have been an American pre-invasion exercise that was attacked by German E-boats off the coast of England; those reported killed or missing from the district were Cpl. John T. Klobe and Pvt. Walter Burgfeld, both of Jackson and both reported killed; Cpl. Lester Hobbs of Cape Girardeau and Pvt. Calvin Bannister of Kennett, reported missing.
Cape Girardeau's third waste paper drive, conducted Saturday, was an outstanding success; a total of 102,984 pounds, slightly more than 51 tons, of paper was collected.
1919
D'Nean Stafford, president of First National Bank of Cape Girardeau since May 1916, sells his holdings and resigns as president; Stafford retires in order that he might give his entire attention to his personal affairs and expects to remain in Cape Girardeau; C.R. Bramblet, president of Miners & Merchants Bank at Flat River, Missouri, is elected to succeed Stafford.
Prosecuting Attorney J. Henry Caruthers has appointed James A. Barks as his assistant; Barks is Cape Girardeau's city counselor and is well qualified to serve as county prosecutor; Barks will fill in for Caruthers when the latter is on vacation with his wife and Dr. and Mrs. L.F. Popp for the next two weeks in Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo and Toronto.
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