Out of the past 12/22/14

1989

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- The 84-year-old former Lutesville Methodist Church, on a hill at 109 Mound St., is destroyed by fire; frigid temperatures and 15 mph winds prove to be the greatest hindrances faced by firefighters from five Bollinger County departments.

St. Mary Catholic School and South East Missouri Bank become partners in education; the bank is sponsoring the grade school through the Adopt-A-School program, marking the first time a private or parochial school has participated in the program.

1964

Burglars entered three establishments at the Town Plaza Shopping Center, but fail to open a safe at the Crown Finance Co. office; an estimated $60 was taken from the Pink Lady Salon of Beauty, while about $20 to $25 in postage stamps was taken from the General Adjustment Bureau office; a floor safe in the Crown Finance office was turned on its side and several methods were tried to open it, but all failed.

Missouri's governor-elect, Warren E. Hearnes, will sponsor the Southeast Missouri Boy Scout Council's annual Eagle Scout Court of Honor in February; it is announced that Hearnes has accepted the invitation to sponsor the event, scheduled for Cape Girardeau.

1939

Sheriff Fred Hartle last night picked up a 36-year-old man on Highway 25, two miles south of Jackson, who had walked away from a prison sawmill near Jefferson City, Missouri, on Dec. 12; the escapee, a Cape Girardeau County resident, had worked at the mill only 12 days; he is serving a sentence on a charge of forgery.

John McClendon, a senior in chemical engineering at the Missouri School of Mines at Rolla, is here visiting his parents, over the Christmas vacation period.

1914

A.M. Tinsley and his crew have managed to transport a monster pine to the courthouse square, a replacement for the sorry specimen first selected as the municipal Christmas tree.

The new board of directors of the Cape Fair and Park Association meets in the afternoon to elect new officers; Will Bahn, the newly elected director, isn't present, owing to illness; Joe Nunn Jr. is also absent as he is entertaining his new son at home; Charles Blattner is elected president to succeed D.A. Glenn.

-- Sharon K. Sanders