Out of the past 2/19/14

1989

A series of vespers for the Lenten season will be offered today and the next three Sunday evenings at St. Mary's Cathedral; the service consists of sung psalms, scripture readings and the Canticle of Mary from the Gospel of Luke.

A new Cape Girardeau baking business brings together more than 45 years of experience in cake and cookie baking and decorating; Crown Cake & Party, 616 Broadway, is operated by Wes Kinsey, his sister Barb Kinsey and Lois Unfer.

1964

The mayor of Memmingen, West Germany, has offered on behalf of his city to sponsor a State College student for a year of work and study in Germany; for the past five years, Cape State has sponsored a different student from Memmingen each year to study here.

Two Poplar Bluff, Mo., youths wander into police headquarters here in the evening, after a freight train ride which brings them from Poplar Bluff to Scott City; at Scott City, Mike Allen, 13, and Dennis Sandusky, 12, became wayfarers about 4 p.m. in an attempt to reach Cape Girardeau; after taking "two or three wrong roads," the pair arrive here; the boys were playing in a coal car in the Poplar Bluff railroad yard in the morning, when it suddenly pulled out.

1939

"The Plight of the Sharecropper" is the topic of discussion in the evening at a meeting of the young people of Christ Evangelical Church; the Rev. Ralph E. Weisser, pastor, is in charge of the discussion; men of the church will unite with men of other congregations tomorrow evening at Centenary Methodist Church to hear Thad Snow, a farmer and landowner near Charleston, Mo., speak on "The Plight of the Cotton Farmer."

The new pulpit furniture at Grace Methodist Church is dedicated in the evening.

1914

Heavy rains all day yesterday and overnight pushed streams out of their banks, washed away bridges and flooded the lowlands south of Cape Girardeau; a report from Smelterville is that that end of town is covered with water and can't be reached without the use of rubber boots.

The ferryboat, which has been tied up just south of the freight depot for the past week because of ice in the river, is brought out at noon; Capt. Roy Jaynes hopes to begin running the vessel again tomorrow morning.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__