Out of the past 2/27/13

1988

Speaking during a ‘Free Speech and the Constitution' seminar at Southeast Missouri State University, Dr. Franklyn Haiman uses a variety of cases to discuss the First Amendment of the Constitution; Haiman is professor of communications studies at Northwestern University and a nationally-known expert on communications.

Small-town enthusiasm is in full force at Old Appleton as area residents begin preparing the pieces of the wrought iron and steel puzzle known as the Old Appleton Bridge, hauling them to a reconstruction site on Apple Creek.

1963

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Gov. John M. Dalton is advised the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the execution of Douglas Wayne Thompson; he was scheduled to die in Missouri's gas chamber a few minutes after midnight Thursday for the killing of Herbert L. Goss, a Cape Girardeau policeman, in 1961.

Joseph J. Russell files as a candidate for re-election to the Cape Girardeau Board of Education, on which he has served two terms; he's the second candidate to announce running for the seat, Robert J. Stiegemeyer having filed previously.

1938

The Rev. F.A. Welsh of St. Louis, district superintendent, speaks in the morning and evening at the Church of the Nazarene; pastor of the church is the Rev. B.L. Wilson.

Mary Schwepker, 83, a native and lifelong resident of Cape Girardeau, dies of pneumonia and infirmities of advanced age; Schwepker was the daughter of Joseph and Anna Krieger Schwepker; she was the oldest member of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

1913

Linus Sanford, an enterprising farmer living north of Cape Girardeau, lost his barn and nearly all of its contents last night by fire; it isn't known how the fire originated, but it is the general belief that it was set on fire by someone.

Cape Girardeau will have another new industry; Ben Green, the well-known stockman of Fruitland, is in town trying to buy a piece of land near the city where he will build a big barn and establish a stock business; he plans to move to Cape Girardeau so his family may be near Normal School.

-- Sharon K. Sanders