Out of the past 12/24/14

1989

The congregation of St. Mark Lutheran Church (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) has decided to proceed with a building expansion project; the plan calls for the construction of a new sanctuary to seat 190 and seven educational classrooms.

Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Sgt. David James has been given the 1989 Timothy J. Ruopp Award, recognizing outstanding and distinguished service.

1964

Capt. George Collins, the Salvation Army Corps officer here, reports that contributions to the annual Tree of Lights have reached $5,381.91; food baskets were distributed by Army workers yesterday to 350 families.

Cape Girardeau police are investigating a burglary at Central High School, where the thief made off with $180 from the school's safe overnight; a janitor, Columbus Snider, discovered the break-in this morning.

1939

A vacant lot at the northwest corner of West End Boulevard and Good Hope Street, formerly owned by Grace Methodist Church, has been sold to Riverside Lumber Co. for $2,000; the lot had been in possession of the church about eight years, it being considered as a site for a new church edifice before the recent addition to the old church was built.

Fire threatens the Fornfelt Cut Rate drugstore at Fornfelt when a customer lights a match and the head of the match flips into cotton used as part of a Christmas tree display; firemen are called, and the fire is confined to the cotton and some toys.

1914

For the accommodation of the public, those obliging clerks and carriers at the Cape Girardeau post office will remain on duty all of Christmas morning; carriers will make their usual rounds of the city to deliver mail and small parcels; the windows at the post office will be open until noon.

The big municipal Christmas tree has been erected in front of Common Pleas Courthouse and decorated, ready for this evening's festivities.

-- Sharon K. Sanders