Out of the past 8/25/14

1989

After a massive, 13-hour manhunt involving 30 officers, two bloodhounds and three helicopters, the escapee from a prison work detail was recaptured just before dark yesterday; he was found hiding in a boat covered by a tarpaulin near a barn, less than a quarter mile northwest of a D-Mart service station on U.S. 61.

Bill Emerson's 8th District farm tour has been expanded to include agribusiness; Emerson spent yesterday in St. Francois and Perry countries visiting a farm, a sawmill, a store and a bridge; he ended the 14-hour-plus day with a visit to Jackson Homecomers.

1964

The Cape Girardeau Jaycees are preparing to launch a citywide project to renovate Ten-Mile Garden, a stretch along U.S. 61 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson; the garden was planted in 1931 and was a tourist attraction many years.

McCLURE, Ill. -- Possible organized gangster involvement is being discounted in the second nightclub bombing here in about six months; Alexander County law enforcement officials say there are no theories as to who dynamited the Why Not? Club early yesterday morning.

1939

Plans were made this week by officers of the McKendree Memorial Association for the annual meeting at old McKendree Chapel, which is set for Sept. 17; Dr. W.W. Parker has been picked to be the main speaker at the service.

New equipment, costing about $12,000, has been purchased for installation at the power plant at the Teachers College; consisting of two large electric dynamos and a new water tank, it will more than double the electric and water supply capacities of the college.

1914

The Rev. Thomas F. Levan, C.M., pastor of St. Vincent's Catholic Church, returns here from Paris, where he had been sent as a delegate to a conference of Catholics; he and the Rev. Finney of Perryville, Missouri, were forced to make a quick escape from the country when hostilities broke out.

The first accident to a Boy Scout at camp at Burfordville occurs when Wendell Norvell falls from a grapevine to the ground, landing on both hands; he breaks the bones in both wrists.

-- Sharon K. Sanders