Out of the past 7/10/14

1989

Fire rekindled yesterday afternoon in the gutted Broadway Park Apartment Building, 115 N. Fountain St., but was extinguished before causing any additional damage; five trucks and 10 city firefighters were dispatched to the complex.

Temporary classrooms have been installed at three Cape Girardeau elementary schools in an effort to relieve crowded classes; the classroom mobile homes were delivered over the weekend to Jefferson and Hawthorn schools; another, which was at Jefferson, has been moved to Alma Schrader School.

1964

Traffic on U.S. 61 travels a circuitous route to avoid the damaged Cotton Belt Railroad overpass at Scott City, which was struck and rendered unsafe yesterday afternoon by a high load on a Missouri Pacific freight train; metal coils projecting above the flatcar carrying them did extensive damage to the overpass.

Sgt. Morley G. Swingle, 54, a member of the Missouri State Highway Patrol for almost 25 years and one of the state's most respected law enforcement officers, dies in an ambulance taking him to a St. Louis hospital for specialized treatment.

1939

J.T. Cotner, 18-year-old Cape Girardeau baseball pitcher, is en route to Beloit, Kansas, to play with that club in the Ban Johnson League; he was signed to a contract last night by Harmon Guard, president of the Beloit club.

Lower limbs are being trimmed from most of the trees on the Teachers College campus; the work on the west side of the campus has been completed.

1914

While making his rounds in the south end of the city in the morning, health officer Charles Stone catches eight boys swimming in the river near the freight depot "without sufficient clothes to hide their nakedness"; a repeated offense will land them in jail.

Henry Weissenbron of near Allenville came close to losing 22 acres of wheat in the shock last week; as Bud Sledge passed along the road with his traction engine and thresher, the rail fence ignited from a spark from the engine; the field stubble, in turn, caught fire; luckily, Oliver Proffer, who lives nearby, discovered the fire and quickly plowed furrows across the field ahead of the blaze and stopped its progress.

-- Sharon K. Sanders