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GoogleA tapestry banner, marking the observance of First Presbyterian Church's 150th anniversary next year, was stolen from the back seat of an automobile over the weekend; the needlepoint tapestry represented more than a year's work by a group of women at the church.
Nationally known comedian Jay Leno draws gales of laughter from nearly 500 people attending a performance sponsored by the Southeast Missouri State University Activities Council at Academic Hall.
50 years ago: Nov. 13, 1959
While still in the formative stage, plans are being made for construction of bleachers on the north side of Houck Stadium to handle the crowds for State College football games; the upsurge of Southeast football in recent years has brought increasingly large crowds from an ever-widening area.
A new barbecue establishment, the Bingo Barbecue, 601 S. Kingshighway, has been opened by Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Morris.
75 years ago: Nov. 13, 1934
Dr. Willis J. Bray, grand high priest of Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons in Missouri, will be a guest speaker when a district meeting for the 49th Masonic Association is held in Cape Girardeau Nov. 23; other speakers will be senator-elect Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo., a lodge official, and the Rev. Harold L. Reader.
Boy Scouts of Cape Girardeau enjoy an evening swim in the State College pool on the ground floor of Academic Hall.
100 years ago: Nov. 13, 1909
Friction arises in the morning between paving inspector Edward F. Regenhardt and city engineer C.W. Hawley, which results in the former handing in his resignation personally to Mayor M.E. Leming; the trouble arises over when pavers drive loaded carts of concrete over the concrete roadbed on the lower block of Broadway hill; Regenhardt objects that the concrete bed hasn't yet had time to set.
Mr. and Mrs. Mercer D. Wilson and children leave on the steamer Grey Eagle in the afternoon for their old home in Wickliffe, Ky.; they take their auto along and will leave the boat at Thebes, Ill., whence they will motor to Cairo, Ill., and cross over into Kentucky.
-- Sharon K. Sanders
