Out of the past 3/22/14

1989

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- About 200 employees of the International Hat Co., will be out of work when the plant closes in early June; the closure is part of a restructuring program INTERCO, Inc., parent company of International Hat, has been undergoing.

A school bus carrying 14 kindergarten pupils from Scott City Elementary School overturned and skidded off the road yesterday morning, hitting two trees; all the children and the driver were taken to a Cape Girardeau hospital, where 10 were treated for bumps and bruises and released; the others weren't injured; the driver suffered only minor injuries.

1964

Palm Sunday morning service at Centenary Methodist Church includes the receiving into membership of 21 young people and several adults; providing music are the chancel choir and a newly-organized, 32-voice junior choir directed by Mrs. William Dreyer.

First Baptist Church will be the host organization for the Good Friday community service, which the Ministerial Alliance will sponsor; ministers of 14 churches will lead seven, 25-minute mediations on the "Seven Last Words from the Cross."

1939

Mrs. Caroline Abernathy, probably the oldest resident of Cape Girardeau at 99, dies at the home of a son, S.A. Anderson, in the morning; she was born near Longtown, Mo., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Abernathy, who were among the first of the pioneer families in that section of Perry County; she was married twice, first to William Farrar and then James B. Abernathy.

A monoplane bought by Richard Hirsch and delivered to him in the morning is taken into the air by Hirsch 15 minutes after its arrival here; the Porterfield Zephyr cabin plane will be kept at Sikeston, Mo., as Cape Girardeau has no airport.

1914

The fund which will defray the expense of a Cape Girardeau County farm boy at school next year has been completed; $163 -- $3 more than necessary -- has been raised and will be kept on deposit at a local bank, until some boy has been chosen to start his year's work at the Normal School agricultural college.

While working on a bridge on the Frisco Railroad near Tenbrook, Mo., yesterday, carpenter Clarence Langston lost his footing and fell to the ground, a distance of about 25 feet; he died about two hours later from internal injuries; young Langston was born and raised on a farm near Burfordville.

-- Sharon K. Sanders