Out of the past 10/12/13

1988

The city of Cape Girardeau has filed petitions in Cape Girardeau and Scott county circuit courts seeking a declaratory judgement that would allow it to submit an annexation question to voters; the city wants to annex the right of way on both sides of Interstate 55 from one-quarter mile north of the Highway 71 north intersection in Cape County, south to the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport in Scott County.

The Glenn Miller Orchestra played to a capacity crowd last night at Academic Auditorium; two of the band members were former Southeast Missouri State University students: Mike Manthey and Joe Weber.

1963

The Cape Girardeau County Medical Association announces a program to administer the Sabin oral polio vaccine in a series of clinics at several locations; the first "feeding" will be Nov. 24, with others to follow at required intervals.

Cape Girardeau area skies deliver their first sprinkle of moisture in exactly a month, but the stubborn drought hasn't loosened its tightening grip; the area hasn't seen a good rain since Sept. 12, a cloudburst of more than three inches.

1938

The Southeast Missouri Medical Association closes its annual meeting at Poplar Bluff, Mo., selecting Cape Girardeau as the 1939 convention city; about 70 delegates attended the meeting at Poplar Bluff.

The Rev. and Mrs. Hobart Peterson and children, Hobart Jr., Robert, Eugene, Lillian and Hope, are moving to Anna, Ill., where Peterson will become pastor of a Baptist church; he has been pastor of Red Star Baptist Church here for two years.

1913

The Rev. John Wells has been employed by the Christian Church here as its regular pastor.

The laying of the corner stone of the new Saint Francis Hospital on Good Hope Street draws one of the largest crowds ever assembled here; the Rev. E. Pruente, with the altar boys from St. Mary's Catholic Church, open the ceremonies and, after pronouncing from the ritual, the stone is set.

-- Sharon K. Sanders