Out of the past 3/27/13

1988

Todd Rushing and Scott Seabaugh of Jackson, along with other area Boy Scouts, plant 1,100 oak trees on Marquette Island, which is in the Mississippi River near the Lone Star Cement plant; the 31-acre island has been set aside for a wildlife "wetland" by the SEMO Regional Port Authority.

Construction has begun on an addition to the Cape Bible Chapel, 2911 Kage Road.; the 4,000-square-foot addition will be an educational and fellowship wing, with seven classrooms, storage closets and an activity room.

1963

The Army Corps of Engineers maintenance unit, most of whose members reside in or near Cape Girardeau, will be deactivated by July 1; the move will effect 36 government employees who have been engaged in maintenance work on the Mississippi River in the Corps' St. Louis district.

A beautification committee has been formed here, which will launch a tree-planting program; the committee came into being after the Cape Girardeau Council of Garden Clubs received a $400 grant from the Sears, Roebuck Foundation.

1938

A two-week revival meeting is being conducted by Edgar Pippin, an 11-year-old boy, at the Apostolic Church in the Smelterville suburb; the youngster is the son of the Rev. J.E. Pippin of Dyersburg, Tenn., and has been preaching for several months.

Wade G. Anderson, 61, sheriff of Scott County for 15 months and a livestock dealer in Southeast Missouri for nearly half a century, dies at a hospital from complications of pneumonia; Anderson is the third sheriff of Scott County to die while in office; Green Winchester died in 1886 after serving nearly two years and William Miller died in 1894 about 14 months after he became sheriff.

1913

With the Mississippi River at 29.5 feet at Cape Girardeau in the morning, river observer W.S. Albert predicts it could go to 32 feet or higher; 30 feet at Cape Girardeau is the flood mark, when all those whose property adjoining low lands are expected to take warning.

Andy Brown is moving from his old home on William Street to the truck farm of Mrs. Theodore Bauerle on the Bloomfield Road.

-- Sharon K. Sanders