Out of the past 10/15/14

1989

A church service conducted by Robert L. Coons of Lincoln, Illinois, is held in the morning at the site of the big Civil War re-enactment near Gordonville.

Around 1,000 people turn out for the Open House and Travel Show at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport in the afternoon; four World War II vintage aircraft from the Confederate Air Force, including a B-25 bomber, are on display.

1964

William L. Ryan, Associated Press expert on the Soviet Union, predicted last night before members of the Cape Girardeau Executives Club that Soviet Premier Khrushchev may voluntarily step down from his high post; reliable reports from Moscow this morning say Khrushchev has resigned, and that Leonid I. Brezhnev has taken over as first secretary of the Communist Party and Alexei Kosygin has become premier.

City attorney Stephen N. Limbaugh has confirmed that initiative petitions would be needed to bring to a vote the matter of abolishing a municipal tax; that question was raised at Monday's city council meeting by Edgar P. Bock; although Bock wasn't specific, it is believed the tax he has in mind is the municipal band tax.

1939

Retired the Rev. William Scarlett, bishop of the Missouri Diocese of the Episcopal Church, confirms a class at Christ Episcopal Church in the morning; in the afternoon, at Scarlett's final service of the day, he administers the sacrament of baptism.

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- From all over Southeast Missouri Catholics assemble here to celebrate the sesquicentennial of the local Catholic church; a crowd estimated at close to 3,000 attends a morning field Mass.

1914

Work on the drainage canal south of Cape Girardeau comes to a dead stop in the morning, when Sheriff Bill Summers and deputies "levy" the two big dredging machines; mortgages on the immense machines were foreclosed, and Summers and his men were ordered to take charge of the machines by Lidgerwood-Crawford Co., manufacturers of the machinery.

An agent of the Kettle River wood block paving company has been in the city several days, this giving rise to the rumor that the company may be getting ready to effect a settlement with the city regarding repairs to the wood block pavements.

-- Sharon K. Sanders