Out of the past 8/23/12

1987

Progressive Baptist Church, 10 N. Sprigg St., is dedicated at an afternoon service; Progressive Baptist was established in May, when the Rev. Claude Russell conducted the first meeting with a small group of people.

The congregation of St. Mark Lutheran Church sponsors an "Old-Fashioned Hymn Fest" in the evening at the Capaha Park band shell.

1962

The Cape Girardeau Police Department formed a Canine Corps in 1962. Dog handlers with there charges were, left to right, Jerry McConnell and Colonel, Paul Montgomery and Flash, and Naamon Eaker and King. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

The Cape Girardeau Police Department has started a program using German shepherds for patrol work; the handlers and their canine trainees are Jerry McConnell and Colonel, Paul Montgomery and Flash, and Naamon Eaker and King.

The gift business operated by Mr. and Mrs. Hartford E. Hill at 814 Broadway will be moved within the next month to a new location at the corner of Broadway and Park Avenue; the Hills bought the brick home at 1304 Broadway from Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Spradling.

1937

L.W. Simmons of the Surety Savings & Loan Association, in charge of the distribution of automobile and driver's licenses, is awaiting receipt of blanks for the 25,000 driver's licenses he expects to issue from his office; a new law requiring drivers to be licensed will go into effect Sept. 6; Simmons expects to receive the necessary forms this week.

Eugenia Milde of Cape Girardeau, who has sung in the Municipal Opera chorus in St. Louis this summer, has declined an offer to open as a minor principal in "The Desert Song" at Kansas City, Mo., following the close of the season in St. Louis; she turned down the offer because she has been appointed a teacher at Chaffee, Mo., for the coming school year.

1912

Cape Girardeau Portland Cement will be used in the paving of business streets at Poplar Bluff, Mo.; Roy Williams of Cairo, Ill., has been awarded the contract for the work.

Contractor F.J. Page is building a pretty, two-room cottage on Morgan Oak Street, adjoining the St. Vincent's College grounds, for Miss Healey of Washington, D.C., who recently bought some property from the college; the house will be occupied by Healey's sister and her husband of Morehouse, Mo.

-- Sharon K. Sanders