25 years ago: June 26, 1980
An open-air market for local fruit and vegetable growers is held from 4 to 8 in the evening in the Main Street parking lot south of Montgomery Ward; the Farmer's Market of Carbondale, Inc., a not-for-profit organization which consists mainly of growers and some consumers, is working with the Downtown Metro Merchants organization to get the Cape Girardeau Community Farmer's Market underway.
The Missouri Job Service office at 231 N. Main St. begins moving to its new headquarters at 1219 N. Kingshighway; the Job Service office had operated at its Main Street location since 1966.
The Rev. Norman F. Brewer, pastor of First Assembly of God Church, delivers his farewell sermon in the morning; Brewer will be going to a new post as pastor of the First Assembly of God Church in Stillwater, Okla.
A Missouri state department of Navy Mothers Clubs of America was organized yesterday at an all-day meeting held at Daley's Hall, 617 Good Hope St., with the Cape Girardeau Navy Mothers as hostesses.
Heavy winds, accompanied by some rain, swept over Cape Girardeau late last night and shortly after midnight today, causing some slight damage but bringing a measure of relief to a heat-gripped district; the mercury, which just prior to the first storm Wednesday afternoon had reached 98 degrees, slumped rapidly and in 30 minutes had dropped 24 degrees.
The towboat A.W. Armstrong, pushing two loaded barges of the Marquette Cement Mfg. Co., capsized and sank in the Mississippi River off Ste. Genevieve, Mo., yesterday during a severe wind storm; all members of the crew of 15 were saved, most of them swimming to safety as the boat went under.
Ed Regenhardt breaks the small bone in his arm early in the morning; while working at his quarry, his arm is thrown against the derrick, and the bone is broken; he is now sporting a plaster cast.
The Sons of Veterans have abandoned the idea of giving a grand Fourth of July picnic this year, as in the past, and instead will join the Grand Army of the Republic, the Women's Relief Corps and the Ladies' Aid Society to hold a private picnic at the old fairgrounds.
-- Sharon K. Sanders
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