Week of Jan. 30 - Feb. 3

Feb. 3, 1920

Large Hotel in Cape Bought by Walter Black

Walter D. Black, nestor of automobile dealers in Southeast Missouri, has bought the Idan-Ha hotel from Al Salzgeber, who has been its landlord for the past ten years. The price paid by Black is reported at $5,000. The building belongs to J.G. Reynolds, from whom Salzgeber had a lease for 10 years.

Salzgeber came to Cape Girardeau from Perryville more than 10 years ago to take charge of the hotel, which at the time was a three-story building at the corner of Broadway and Fountain streets. Six years ago the size of the building was doubled, a five-story addition on Fountain Street being erected by Reynolds.

Before coming to Cape Girardeau, Salzgeber had been landlord of...

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Jan. 30, 1970

Strand named dean; building named after Dr. Forrest Rose

The State College Board of Regents Thursday named Dr. David A. Strand as dean of the college, succeeding Dr. Forrest H. Rose, who died Dec. 20.

The regents also named the theater in the Language Arts Building Rose Theatre in honor of Dean Rose and adopted an appropriate resolution of respect for the late educator.

"He, more than anyone else, was responsible for planning for that theater and for putting it in shape," Dr. Mark Scully, president of the college, observed. The new name of the theater has another significance, he pointed out, in that one of the three important theaters built during the Elizabethan Era was the Rose Theater.

Dean Rose was a member of the college faculty for 39 years and served as dean for 24 years.

Dean Strand, 34, has been associate dean of the college since his return here in 1967. He was dean of students from 1961 until 1965 when he left to study for his doctorate...

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Feb. 5, 2003

Decent exposure

For the second time in 15 years, the Mississippi River is low enough to walk to scenic Tower Rock

By Heidi Hall

Southeast Missourian

ALTENBURG, Mo. -- The trip from anywhere to Tower Rock is over two-lane Perry County roads with hairpin turns and hair-raisingly narrow bridges. The last mile is across a gravel-covered, muddy stretch called County Road 460, blocked in spots on Tuesday by road graders and dump trucks.

But at the end is a significant history and eye-popping beauty rolled into one -- one gigantic piece of limestone topped with cedar trees and scrub brush.

Tower Rock juts up 90 feet out of the middle of the Mississippi River. It sits about three miles east of Altenburg, 28 miles north of Cape Girardeau, closest to a defunct town called Wittenberg.

And for only the second time in 15 years, a person can walk to it on dry land from the Missouri side.

Hundreds did so over the weekend after a St. Louis television station aired a piece on...