Out of the past 8/11/08

25 years ago: Aug. 11, 1983

Two men were honored as "Pioneers in Education" Monday at Jefferson City; Dr. Mark F. Scully of Cape Girardeau, former president of Southeast Missouri State University, and Delmar A. Cobble of Jackson, president of the State Board of Education, were among 10 people recognized for their contributions to education.

DEXTER, Mo. — High winds rip through Dexter in the afternoon, causing damage to businesses and homes and injuring six people; about 13 units of the 50-unit Hickory House Motel are destroyed.

50 years ago: Aug. 11, 1958

During a brief storm yesterday afternoon, lightning struck the bell tower on McKendree Methodist Church in Jackson, knocking out several stones; a car belonging to Linder Crader was parked on the street near the church, and its top, trunk and one window were smashed.

Members of Painters Local 1292 donated their labor Saturday to give the grandstand at Capaha Park a free paint job; participating were Melvin Mehmeyer, Ed Bartels, Vernon Smith, E.D. Calvert, Lee Monahan, Owen Estes, Earl Smith, Lloyd Slinkard, J.W. Hoffman, Tom Casey, R.C. Hiller and Roscoe Palmer.

75 years ago: Aug. 11, 1933

The major part of the peach harvest in the Cape Girardeau district will be over by tomorrow night; the crop from half a dozen of the larger orchards will have earned slightly more than $10,000; the local harvest will total about 6,300 bushels.

A lightning bolt yesterday struck and shattered a corner of a smokestack at Southeast Missouri Hospital, but patients in the rooms in that section of the building weren't even aware that the building had been hit.

100 years ago: Aug. 11, 1908

Pitcher Jeff Tesreau, who has been pitching for Perryville, Mo., has been signed by the St. Louis Browns; the right-hander stands 6 feet 2 inches and weighs 210 pounds.

Calvin Minton, an employee of the Indiana Lumber Co., has his left leg broken as he is unloading logs from a flat car; the engine gives a sudden lurch, causing one of the timbers to tumble free and fall on Minton; he is expected to recover rapidly.

— Sharon K. Sanders