Out of the past 2/28/13

1988

Mrs. Elsie Isensee Hill of Springfield, Mo., is guest speaker at Bethel Assembly of God Church in the morning; a missionary to Latin America for many years and still an overseas evangelist, Hill spent five months ministering in South America in 1984.

The Rev. Wiley L. Kaufman has been appointed assistant pastor of Faith Tabernacle United Pentecostal Church here; formerly of McClure, Ill., Kaufman has been involved in the ministry for 30 years.

1963

Mrs. H.R. Newman filed her candidacy yesterday for a fifth term on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education; Newman is the third candidate for the board, the others are incumbent J.J. Russell and Robert J. Stiegemeyer.

Sister M. Redempta Lefarth became the new administrator of Saint Francis Hospital in 1963. Making her welcome were, from the left, Dr. E.W. Campbell, Sister M. Redempta, Sen. Albert M. Spradling, Sister M. Lillian, Dr. Melvin C. Kasten, Dr. Harold B. Rapp, Dr. Charles F. Bahn and Dr. J.H. Keim. (Missourian archive photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

Sister M. Redempta Lefarth, new administrator of Saint Francis Hospital, is introduced at the annual medical staff dinner in the evening; this is a homecoming for her, as she is a native of Cape Girardeau.

1938

Mason Thomas completes 25 years as a letter carrier in Cape Girardeau; he began working for Uncle Sam on Feb. 28, 1913; so regular has been his work that he hasn't missed a week's pay in a quarter of a century.

Following the brief discussion of a petition asking the city to make a cost survey of a proposed stormwater sewer system in the West End, the city council instructs city engineer John R. Walther to make such a study; the proposed area lies south of Lacy Street and West of Franklin School.

1913

The McElroy Electric Construction Co. is moving from the Grissom Building at Broadway and Spanish Street to the building vacated by the Bungalow Restaurant on lower Broadway.

Professor Seth Babcock of the Normal School returns in the evening from a trip through Southeast Missouri with the Cotton Belt agricultural train; Babcock and three men from the state university traveled through this section giving agriculture lectures at 15 towns.

-- Sharon K. Sanders