Out of the past 6/16/13

1988

Central Hardware, C-4 Corporation and city officials are on hand in the morning for groundbreaking ceremonies for the new 90,000-square-foot Central Hardware facility, which will be built in Cape Centre, near the Bloomfield Road location of the 67-acre development tract.

The extended dry weather and flammable conditions lead the Cape Girardeau County Commission to issue a no-burn request in the county.

1963

Bishop Ignatius J. Strecker, S.T.D., of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese, has announced several reassignments of priests in Southeast Missouri; the closest change is at Immaculate Conception Parish in Jackson, which will welcome the Rev. Elmer G. Stolle, M.A., as its new pastor; his place at St. John's Parish in Leopold, Mo., will be taken by the Rev. August A. Echoff, current pastor at Jackson.

Jon Roberts was installed as president of the Breakfast Optimist Club during a dinner meeting last night at the Colonial Restaurant.

1938

Another near torrential rain, accompanied by high winds, swept Cape Girardeau County early last night, inflicting damage to buildings and crops, paralyzing telephone and electric service in the north end of the county, and flooding downtown streets in Cape Girardeau; the top 5-ton section of the stone safety trophy at the cement plant was blown off the base during the storm.

Charles A. Freck, executive secretary of the Missouri Tuberculosis Association, accompanied by architect L. Roy Bowen, are on their way to Bollinger County to examine the old Will Mayfield College buildings to determine whether they can be used as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

1913

The trustees of Eisleben Lutheran Church at Illmo, Mo. -- George H. Roth and Louis Albrecht -- are advertising for bids for construction of a new church building there; plans for the new edifice can be seen at the residence of the Rev. A.H. Hilport at Illmo.

At the Cape Girardeau City Council meeting, W.H. Miller, attorney for the Cape Girardeau-Jackson Interurban Railway, which operates the Cape Girardeau streetcar system, asks that the council take some action to aid the owners of the railway.

-- Sharon K. Sanders