Published in the Southeast Missourian, Tuesday, October 25, 1994: Boys at Charles C. Clippard Elementary School got together to play with a basketball, including, from left, Jason Mercer, Vitaly Mourazine, T.J. Fort, Thomas Keener and Kris Metje. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

Published in the Southeast Missourian, Monday, October 24, 1994: Terry Emmons, head welder at Ole Hickory Pits, uses a mig welder to weld a fire box for a smoker cooker. (Don Shrubshell ~ Southeast Missouri archive)...

This being Halloween, I thought this odd little story about a glass-lidded coffin might be appropriately weird for the day. It also tweaked my memory about a story from my first year at the Southeast Missourian, and I found the article with little effort. I've removed the names of the university students charged in the case of the purloined prop. No doubt, today they are all three upstanding members of society...

Published in the Southeast Missourian, Monday, October 31, 1994: James Griswell of Vanduser waited for a cotton picker to dump a load of cotton onto a trailer destined for the Vanduser Gin Co. It takes ab out four acres of cotton to fill a trailer. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

A trio of riding mules. (Chris Stanfield - Southeast Missourian archive) (Published in the Southeast Missourian Sept. 1, 1994.)...

Published in the Southeast Missourian, Oct. 15, 1994: Southeast Missouri State's Kelvin "Earthquake" Anderson (29) moves into the end zone on a 66-yard touchdown run against SIU in Carbondale on Sept. 12, 1992. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

Published in the Southeast Missourian, Aug. 30, 1992: Walter Wilson has retired after having a hand in the production of the Southeast Missourian for more than four decades, many of them at the controls of printing presses. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

In 1968 the Greater Cape Girardeau Historical Association acquired the historic David A. Glenn residence at 325 S. Spanish St., from Robert W. Erlbacher. Plans were made to restore the property to its former glory and open it as a house museum for the city. But to do that, funds were necessary...

Published in the Southeast Missourian, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1994: Mark Goodwin, left, biology teacher at Jackson High School, watched Amy Doberens practice using a microscope in class. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

Bert and Mary Ann Kellerman relaxed in the living room of their home at 6 S. Fountain, which has been named to the National Register of Historic Places. (Fred Lynch ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

Published in the Southeast Missourian, Sept. 21, 1992: Friends and relatives console Evelyn Harris, above, whose mother, Evelyn Sparks; sister, Bridgette Harris, and nephew, Dontay Harris, were shot to death Sunday morning in Sparks' home at 1117 S. Ranney St. in Cape Girardeau. (Mark Sterkel ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

Published Sept. 8, 1983, in the Southeast Missourian: Linder Deimund, who turned 87 today, looks out at the Mississippi River which has played a big part of his life. (Mary L. Spell ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

Cape Girardeau's original city swimming pool in Capaha Park was segregated, with whites using the pool six days a week and blacks one. (G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive)...

This week's blog contains the final story in a three-part series on the logging industry in Southeast Missouri in 1944. While the previous articles dealt with the history of logging in the district and the effects of World War II on the industry, the final installment looked to the future timber harvesting in Southeast Missouri...

Continuing where we left off in last week's blog, we were discussing the logging industry in Southeast Missouri. This blog contains the second in the three-part series of articles published in 1944 as the war in Europe seemed to be winding down...

Several years after G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger retired (for the last time) in 1986, he showed up at the Missourian library with several boxes filled with 4-by-5 negatives. A treasure he was gifting the Missourian. Most of the negatives were unlabeled and undated. And Frony didn't have the patience to go through them and help identify them. He had started on a new chapter in his life, and looking at old, dusty negatives wasn't a part of it...

The "No German" hysteria stemming from World War I pressured Fred Kies into changing the name of the Jackson Deutscher Volksfreund newspaper to the Cape County Post in July 1918. (Southeast Missourian archive)...

In last week's blog, I discussed how speaking the German language over the Farmers Mutual Telephone Company's line in Pocahontas caused a huge spat. It seems that in 1919 some subscribers who used German to communicate over the telephone line, knowing it was against the company's rules, were punished for the infractions. They lost their telephone privileges...

As a child, I can remember listening to my mother speaking on the telephone. I wasn't eavesdropping exactly. I couldn't. I didn't understand German, and that's the language Mom typically used when speaking to her sister or older members of her family. This was especially true when she didn't want young ears to understand her conversation...

On July 5, 1944, in Hartford, Connecticut, the worst fires in circus history struck the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, killing more than 150 people. Among those who witnessed the blaze from the bandstand inside the big top was Jackson native Clarence Lee Bennett, a musician. Clarence was born Oct. 5, 1916, the son of Jesse Lee and Rachel E. Wells Bennett. He attended Jackson High School, where he played on the football team and in the school band...