Out of the past 7/1/14

1989

At a banquet recognizing donors to the Southeast Missouri University Foundation last night, around 450 people heard keynote speaker C. William Pollard, president and chief executive officer of The ServiceMaster Co.

Stage of Life, a new theater group, was formed about a month ago to provide youths, ages 10 to 20, a chance to perform; one of the founders of the new group is Ann Abbott.

1964

Fishing is inaugurated at the new Lake Boutin at Trail of Tears State Park in the morning; about 350 anglers show up by 6 a.m., and most of them go home with their limits of bass and bluegill.

After 29 years of practice in Cape Girardeau, Dr. D.B. Elrod has announced he is retiring; he plans to leave Thursday for Placide, Florida, where he will reside with his wife; Elrod first moved to Cape Girardeau in 1922 from Dexter, Missouri, where he was born; he studied medicine at the University of Missouri and Washington University; after residency at St. Louis City Hospital for four years as a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, he returned to Cape Girardeau.

1939

It has been suggested that the city liquidate the duck population at Fairground Park; recently, 25,000 fingerling largemouth bass were placed in the park lagoon by the State Conservation Commission, with plans to later distribute them in district streams; however, the 50 ducks at the pond are feasting on the fish.

Efforts to raise T.R. Morgan's Plymouth from the waters of the Mississippi River have failed; the car, parked at the foot of Themis Street on Water Street yesterday, slipped from its parking place and rolled into the stream; garage workers have found the car, but it rests in about 25 feet of water.

1914

Arthur Kasten, a young Jackson man, passes through Cape Girardeau on his way home from Kirksville, Missouri, where he had been receiving treatment at an osteopathic hospital.

It is rumored that John Metz, formerly a saloon keeper in South Cape Girardeau, wants to open a saloon in the old Osterloh & Ransom place on Main Street, near Independence Street.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__