November 4, 2014

Pictures of the Past #84

G.D. Fronabarger left the Missourian boxes and boxes of negatives. What he didn't leave were IDs for them. Pictures of the Past features some of Frony's images we've partially identified. We're hoping you can help fill in the blanks. Contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com, if you recognize a place or a face. Mystery Galleries may still be viewed on our History Page, http://www.semissourian.com/history/

On his last run in 1958, H.M. Parnell of Thebes, Illinois, swung from a Missouri Pacific train in the cement plant yards here. A conductor for the Missouri Pacific Railroad on the Gale (Illinois)-Cape sector, Parnell said he was "young enough, feel young enough and am active enough" to go ahead, but explained he just decided to retire. He started as a brakeman in 1911 and had been a conductor since 1920.

Published April 7, 1961. Cape Girardeau County farmers were guests of the Chamber of Commerce on a tour of several industrial plants and other places of interest in 1961. At the left, Herman Keller of the chamber's agriculture committee briefed the visitors on the upcoming tour. The group was shown assembled at the Town Plaza before starting on the tour.

Mary Lee Rasmussen, and Van and Mary White all agree: This cook is Mary Ellen Ueleke, wife of Milton Ueleke.

A group of business men stood on the banks of the Mississippi River while looking at a dock facility. Can you provide more information on this picture?

Don McNeely seems to enjoy being completely surrounded by his "captors" in this scene from "Tender Trap." Community Theater players, from left: Jodie Briggs, McNeely, Barbara Daniels, Merry Gay Lorberg and Carolyn Metje. The three-night performance opened Nov. 29, 1956 at Little Theater in Kent Library. The Cape Girardeau Community Theater was organized in 1951.

Pine tree seedlings at the Springdale Bird Sanctuary were folded into the earth by a Missouri Conservation Commission planter in April 1958, as over 3,000 of the native short leaf variety were put out by Paul Talley, driving the tractor, and Al W. Hoskin, agent for the commission, riding the planting machine. The project was under the direction of Professor Homer R. Bolen, state Audubon Society representative. The society owned the refuge area located on North Cape Rock Drive.

Help us identify these two business men.

Published Saturday, April 11, 1959, pg. 8 Top pin tumblers. The Milady's team won the bowling honors for the Lutheran Ladies League, taking 51 of 90 games rolled, on the Lutheran alleys. From the left are Mrs. Esther Aufdenberg, Mrs. Betty Points, Mrs. Fay McLaird, Mrs. Helen Buckner and Mrs. Belle Collins.

April 11, 1959 Southeast Missourian. Top pin tumblers. The Milady's team won the bowling honors for the Lutheran Ladies League, taking 51 of 90 games rolled, on the Lutheran alleys. From the left are Mrs. Esther Aufdenberg, Mrs. Betty Points, Mrs. Fay McLaird, Mrs. Helen Buckner and Mrs. Belle Collins. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)

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G.D. Fronabarger left the Missourian boxes and boxes of negatives. What he didn't leave were IDs for them. Pictures of the Past features some of Frony's images we've partially identified. We're hoping you can help fill in the blanks. Contact librarian Sharon Sanders at ssanders@semissourian.com, if you recognize a place or a face. Mystery Galleries may still be viewed on our History Page, http://www.semissourian.com/history/

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