Out of the past 7/2/13

1988

After 35 years in the education field, Vince Raddle is retiring from his post as director of elementary education for the Cape Girardeau Public Schools; all but three of those years have been spent with the Cape system.

Robert A. Boudreau tells music fans to imagine they are aboard the Count Counterpoint II barge on the Mississippi River, as his American Waterways Wind Orchestra presents a concert at the Capaha Park band shell in the evening; low water in the Mississippi River grounded the group's tour just north of Mound City, Ill.

1963

As bells ring out across the nation on July 4, more than 100 church bells in Cape Girardeau, Scott and Perry counties will add their peals for freedom; 15 Cape Girardeau churches have indicated they will participate in the observance; in addition, the carillon bells at the State College will be rung.

An ordinance establishing the Cape Girardeau's sewer service charge and the method of billing was enacted by the Cape Girardeau City Council yesterday, the same day the first bills were sent from the city clerk's office; residents apparently find the bills confusing as the city has received hundreds of calls about them.

1938

Two Cape Girardeau physicians move their offices from present locations to a new building just completed in the 700 block of Broadway; Dr. D.B. Elrod and Dr. R.A. Ritter are moving to the new structure, and each will occupy a five-room suite in the 10-room, one-story brick building, erected by the owner, Chris Bauer.

Last-minute preparations are being made to entertain a Fourth of July crowd estimated at 20,000 people, if weather conditions are favorable; more than 200 members of the American Legion Post will be on duty at the daylong Monday picnic at Fairground Park.

1913

C.C. Hawley has sold his four-flat apartment building on Themis Street to Graham Dempsey, who bought it as an investment.

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Charles Shell, 27, was knocked from his horse late yesterday afternoon by lightning and instantly killed; he had been working in a field near his home about a mile west of town when a storm came up; it is thought he had unhitched his team and started for the barn, when he was struck.

-- Sharon K. Sanders