Out of the past 7/24/08

25 years ago: July 24, 1983

A fellowship reception is held for the Rev. Erwin Brese in the morning at St. Andrew Lutheran Church; Brese, the former director of Lutheran Family and Children's Services in Cape Girardeau, is leaving to become pastor of a Lutheran congregation in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- About 30 striking employees of the Henschel Manufacturing Co.'s St. Louis plant and area members of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union members paraded through Chaffee yesterday to express dissatisfaction over the planned opening of a nonunion Henschel plant here.

50 years ago: July 24, 1958

Petitions are being circulated through which the Cape Girardeau City Council will be asked to set up a storm water drainage system in the Cape LaCroix Creek and Walker Creek areas of the city; the proposed district would include the Cape LaCroix, Walker Creek sector and the small areas draining into those streams.

COMMERCE, Mo. -- Ending a desperate effort started a week ago, a temporary levee protecting a half-million-dollar corn and soybean crop on 7,500-acre Big Island collapses before the force of the flooding Mississippi River.

75 years ago: July 24, 1933

Henry Steinhoff Sr., 80, a resident of Egypt Mills for 71 years and said to be one of the passengers on the first steamship crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to America, died Saturday at his farm home; Steinhoff came to America with his parents from Hanover, Germany, when he was 9 years old.

Rain, the first in Cape Girardeau in 15 days, fell last night and this morning, breaking a threatened drought; the weather forecast predicts continued showers and cooler.

100 years ago: July 24, 1908

The Jackson Homecomers committee met recently and decided to employ the Schuchert Band of Cape Girardeau to furnish music for the celebration in September; also, a Perryville, Mo., man will be there with his steam swing.

Louis Niedling of near Egypt Mills is in Cape Girardeau; he says he just sold a lot of stock to Frank McDonald; Niedling says he is putting in a molasses plant and will make sorghum this fall.

-- Sharon K. Sanders