Out of the past 2/17/13

1988

On the eve of their biggest game of the season, the Southeast Missouri State University Indians were bestowed the rare honor yesterday of being named the number one Division II basketball team in the nation; this marks the first time in the school's history that Southeast has been ranked number one in basketball.

The towboat W.R. Rea rests on the bottom of the Mississippi River near the Illinois shoreline north of Grand Tower, after it apparently struck an underwater obstruction early Monday; diesel fuel leaking from its tanks is being contained close to shore.

1963

The commission of the Presbytery of Potosi installs the Rev. Thomas N. Bass as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in the afternoon; the Rev. Ed Short of Farmington, Mo., is chairman of the commission and preaches the sermon; Dr. C.E. Mount of First Presbyterian Church here presides.

Monsignor Daniel Moore, editor of the St. Louis Review, leads a retreat for non-Catholics in St. Mary's Cathedral School; Moore was recently honored for his efforts to further the dialogue between Roman Catholic and Protestant clergy.

1938

Two fugitives from the penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo., were captured without resistance late yesterday by a posse of 16 heavily-armed officers from Missouri and Illinois at a farm north of McClure, Ill.; the officers were tipped off as to the whereabouts of the escapees.

After working nearly two days, wrecking crews shortly before noon rescue a 15-ton Greyhound Lines motorbus from a bed of mud in a shallow ditch on Highway 61, four miles north of the city; the bus plunged into the ditch, after a collision with an automobile.

1913

L.D. Parmenter of Oak Ridge has sold his farm for $62.50 per acre and will move to Stoddard County; he has leased J.R. Parmenter's farm six miles from Bloomfield, Mo.; he takes with him two black Tennessee registered jacks and a 1,650-pound Percheron stallion.

The ferryboat makes several trips across the river and is fixing up a landing place on the Illinois side; the ice piled up on that side has made it almost impossible to land, the deck being about 50 feet from the water's edge since the fall of the river.

-- Sharon K. Sanders