Out of the past 6/17/09

Martin T. "Tim" Schnare of Cape Girardeau has received a call to become pastor of St. Luke Lutheran Church at Worland, Wyo.; one of a class of 130 who graduated from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in May, Schnare will be ordained at Carrollton, Mo., on July 15.

Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce officials estimate that around 40,000 people visited downtown Cape Girardeau on Friday and Saturday for Riverfest.

50 years ago: June 17, 1959

The first grain-buying firm to operate in Cape Girardeau in many years will open an office tomorrow at its two storage bins on the bank of the Mississippi River near the end of LaCruz Street; Cape River Grain Co., Inc., is jointly owned by Paul Foster, J.R. Lee, Dr. Frank L. Sisson and Floyd Flowers of Oklahoma City.

Civic Center Inc. is making plans for a campaign to raise $5,500 in operating funds for the development of a civic center in the Smelterville area.

75 years ago: June 17, 1934

Bishop William Scarlett of St. Louis is the speaker at confirmation services in the morning at Christ Episcopal Church; a class of four people is received.

After 10 years as a pitcher in the major leagues with the St. Louis Browns and the Detroit Tigers and following this with service in the American Association and the past 1 1/2 seasons with the Dallas club in the Texas League, Elam Vangilder has returned to Cape Girardeau following his release by the Texas club last week; Vangilder plans to devote his time to his farm on Perryville Road.

100 years ago: June 17, 1909

President W.S. Dearmont of the Normal School received a telegram yesterday from Henry F. Schulte saying he would accept the place of athletic director at the school; Schulte gained fame a few years ago as a member of the Ann Arbor, Mich., football team; since then, he has been athletic director of the Normal School at Ypsilanti, Mich.

Company K of the state troops is to have larger and better quarters, having secured the big building on Independence Street, formerly occupied by the shirt factory, as its armory.

-- Sharon K. Sanders