Out of the past 6/11/08

25 years ago: June 11, 1983

Cape Girardeau County authorities are treating the disappearance of a Whitewater-area man as a possible homicide after the station wagon he borrowed was found abandoned earlier this week with two bullet holes in the windshield; Kenneth L. Moore, 37, disappeared Wednesday.

Donald R. Rugraff has been selected general chairman for the 1983-1984 United Way campaign; Rugraff, assistant district manager for the Social Security Administration, has served as a United Way associate chairman for two years.

50 years ago: June 11, 1958

Torrential rains, accompanied by severe lightning and instances of high winds, sent creeks roaring out of their banks in Cape Girardeau overnight; flooding did severe damage to business buildings at the U.S. 61-Gordonville Road intersection and in the Chamber of Commerce industrial tract; the Galladay Addition was again struck by a wall of water which surged around houses from adjacent Walker Creek.

Hal B. Lehman, business manager for the Cape Girardeau School District, reports vandals broke out 20 windows at Jefferson School in the past few days.

75 years ago: June 11, 1933

The annual Mission Festival is observed at Trinity Lutheran Church, with three neighboring pastors as guest speakers; they are the Revs. William Witrock of Hanover Lutheran Church, L.F. Dippold of New Wells and W.D. Peters of Grace Lutheran Church in St. Louis.

While harrowing in a field on his farm six miles west of Cape Girardeau on the Keller-Ranney road, Arthur Suedekum, 31, was struck by lightning yesterday afternoon and instantly killed; within a stone's throw behind him an employee, Walter Gerecke, who was plowing, escaped injury.

100 years ago: June 11, 1908

Jackson is now safe from conflagration, a fire brigade having been organized in that town; two companies of 10 men each were organized.

Milk inspectors have been working in the Cape Girardeau neighborhood for several days, taking samples of milk from area dairymen and testing butter; there have been numerous reports of inferior milk and butter being sold in Cape Girardeau.

— Sharon K. Sanders