Out of the past 12/29/13

1988

Elmore Leonard's latest crime novel -- "Killshot" -- is set in Cape Girardeau; the book centers on a Michigan couple whose lives are in danger and who are relocated to Cape Girardeau behind the city's floodwall.

Jackson High Indians claim their first-ever championship of the University High Christmas Tournament; the Indians edge the top-seeded Scott Central Braves 58-57 in overtime.

1963

Student Recognition Day is observed at Centenary Methodist Church, with college students in the city for the Christmas holidays participating in the morning service; students conducting the service are Rebecca Davis, Lydia Bunch, Paula Lasater, John Johnson and Carole Ann Williams of Cape State College, and Bill Stone of Central Methodist College at Fayette, Mo.

Building in Cape Girardeau slowed to a virtual standstill during the second two weeks of December, as cold weather and snow came to Southeast Missouri.

1938

City engineer John Walther has issued the construction permit covering the library building, already partially built, at Teachers College, the application placing the cost of the building at $154,000; this covers general construction and installation of plumbing, but not other phases of the project.

Cape Girardeau boys and girls get in their first ice skating of the season; the lagoon at Fairground Park froze sufficiently during the past two days to bear the weight of skaters, and about 100 of them spend the morning on the ice.

1913

The Jack Van Musical Co., en route from Indianapolis to Memphis, Tenn., lost its wardrobe mistress Sunday afternoon in this city, when the elderly woman got off the noon train and began searching the riverfront for a place to find a cup of coffee; she found the coffee, all right, but when she got back to the Frisco station, her train pulling out, and she was unable to stop it or get aboard; the ticket agent stepped in to remedy the situation, putting her on the night train to join the troupe at Memphis.

The north side of the city clock on the Lutheran Church is frozen, its large hands stopped at 2:25.

__Sharon K. Sanders__