Out of the past 8/2/14

1989

Secret Service agents in St. Louis are investigating an estimated 60 percent increase in counterfeit bills in Southeast Missouri; the investigation is targeting the cities and surrounding areas of Cape Girardeau, Sikeston and Poplar Bluff.

GALE, Ill. -- Federal and state environmental officials announce work has started on the removal of more than one million gallons of PCB-contaminated oil and water from the former Illada Energy Co. site, near here.

1964

The Rev. C.E. Rhode, pastor of First Assembly of God, will be leaving Cape Girardeau in mid-August for Canyonville, Oregon, where he will be principal and superintendent of the Canyonville Bible Academy, a four-year residence high school; Rhode has been pastor here three years.

The Rev. Paul Ludwig preaches his farewell sermon at Christ Lutheran Church in Gordonville in the morning; he and his family are then honored at a dinner and afternoon service; Ludwig has been named assistant pastor of Zion Lutheran Church at Decatur, Indiana.

1939

Members of the Cape Girardeau City Council, following a conference with M.I. Parker, engineer for the Missouri Inspection Bureau, are considering a proposal to improve fire protection service here, including construction of a small north side fire station; Parker also recommended that a new ladder truck of the aerial type and modern ladders be purchased.

A severe rainstorm sweeps over Cape Girardeau County late in the afternoon, and the accompanying electrical disturbance strikes two places in Jackson, doing little damage.

1914

Centenary Methodist Church holds an all-day service and dinner at the fairgrounds, to which all Methodists of the area are invited; a few church workers sketch out in four-minute addresses what the Centenary is doing and what it hopes to do in the future; W.H. Stubblefield Jr., speaks for the board of stewards; Professor W.W. Martin for the Sunday school; E.W. Flentge for the building committee; Mrs. R.J. Wright for the Woman's Home Mission Society; Sen. Thomas H. Lane for the Men's Club, and Mrs. W.W. Martin for the Woman's League..

The water famine among some black people living in the north part of the city was temporarily relieved yesterday, without benefit of rain; a water main broke, and the water shot out in a big stream until it was shut off; while it was spouting, numerous residents of the area filled buckets and vessels, sufficient to last them several days.

-- Sharon K. Sanders