Out of the past 6/2/13

1988

Broadway cruising -- a traditional activity for young people -- could be coming to an end; the Cape Girardeau Police Department is considering asking the city to adopt an ordinance prohibiting cruising along Broadway.

Government and barge line officials are expressing alarm at the extremely low water conditions on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers so early in the summer; the Mississippi at Cape Girardeau falls to 8.9 feet in the morning.

1963

Cape Girardeau's new Holiday Inn is formally opened when Mayor Walter H. Ford clips a ribbon at the inn's entrance; owners of the new business are Charles L., Robert, James and Jerry Drury.

Razing of the old Trinity Lutheran parsonage, built in 1882 at 535 Themis St., is underway as the congregation completes final plans for construction of a church office at the Frederick-Themis location.

1938

Delta, without a jail or a town hall, is preparing a WPA project application and hopes to get a building costing about $15,000; the concrete, one-story structure would be used as a town hall, with a jail room to be in the rear.

Five youths composing a five-piece orchestra will go on a European trip this summer and play on the steamer Ile de France; they are Clark Caruthers, E.L. McClintock Jr. and Walter Parker of Cape Girardeau, Elmer Donze of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., and Hugh Gault of St. Louis; Caruthers and McClintock were members of an orchestra making a similar journey last summer.

1913

Lt. Arthur Perkins, a veteran of the Confederacy during the Civil War, returned yesterday at noon from the annual encampment at Chattanooga, Tenn., last week; the veteran was worn out from the hard week in the heat of the South and still feels the effect of a jolting he received when the train he was returning on ran into a freight train.

G.A. Kassel has moved his Broadway studio in the Grissom Building to his old studio on Main Street; after the Martin building was erected, the entire light from the studio skylight in the Grissom building was shut off and it became necessary to use artificial light, which wasn't satisfactory in doing high-class photography.

-- Sharon K. Sanders