Out of the past 10/22/14

1989

Mission Festivals are held at two Pocahontas-area Lutheran churches; the first service is at 8:30 a.m. at Trinity Church in Shawneetown; the second is at 10:15 a.m. at Zion Church in Pocahontas; speaker at both services is Dr. Luther L. Meinzen of St. Louis.

FRIEDENBERG, Mo. -- The annual Hill of Peace homecoming service at rural Friedenberg is held in the afternoon; this year's celebration centers on the Lutheran immigration of 1839 and subsequent years.

1964

Atop the levee overlooking the Mississippi River, Cape Girardeau's flood-protection system is dedicated in the morning; at a ceremony at the Mill Street pumping station, Col. James B. Meanor, district engineer at St. Louis with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, hands a communication to Melvin Wagner, an International Shoe Co. official and president of the North Main Street Levee District, officially turning over to the local sponsor the final project of the system, the section of floodwall from the earthen levee to the point opposite Bellevue Street.

Petitions are being circulated in Cape Girardeau asking that the municipal band tax levy be repealed at an election.

1939

Albert "Big Pete" Peterson has taken up where his former great leader, the late Billy Sunday, left off; he is currently conducting one of the most successful revival meetings in the history of Grace Methodist Church here; the building has been filled to capacity at nearly every service.

Forest fires, abetted by dry weather, burn over several hundred acres of hills and lowlands in Cape Girardeau County, threatening crops and farm buildings; one of the largest fires is near U.S. 61 between Millersville and Patton, Missouri, where several hundred acres of grass land and woods are burned over.

1914

Some beautiful property will be sold at auction next Tuesday on South Sprigg Street; the property starts at Elm Street and runs four blocks south; it is on either side of Sprigg, that part on the east side of Sprigg overlooking the river; near the northeast corner of the plot is the old Civil War fort, which is well fenced and is being preserved for future use by the Houck family.

J.W. Brown, a former restaurant man of Cape Girardeau, who has been spending the past two or three years on the California coast, is here again to take up his residence.

-- Sharon K. Sanders