RecordsSeptember 26, 2009
Out of the past 9/26/09
25 years ago: Sept. 26, 1984 PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Classes resumed Monday at St. Vincent's High School, after volunteers cleaned up the school after vandals did between $8,000 and $10,000 worth of damage; 148 windows were smashed early Friday morning, apparently by three Perryville youths; spray paint marred both windows and brickwork...
25 years ago: Sept. 26, 1984
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Classes resumed Monday at St. Vincent's High School, after volunteers cleaned up the school after vandals did between $8,000 and $10,000 worth of damage; 148 windows were smashed early Friday morning, apparently by three Perryville youths; spray paint marred both windows and brickwork.
It's official: Southeast Missouri State University fall enrollment has hit a new record; according to university officials, enrollment stands at 9,189 students; that surpasses the 1981 record of 9,165.
50 years ago: Sept. 26, 1959
An all-night rain filled creek beds and revived parched pastures, bringing relief from a weeks-long drought that had left fields and lawns concrete hard and put a pall of dust in the air; Cape Girardeau measured 2.25 inches of rain.
Long-delayed construction on the administration building at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport may be resumed next week if steel door frames, on order since May 1, arrive on Tuesday as officials have been notified.
The special election in Jackson yesterday on an $85,000 bond issue carried by a two-thirds majority; the bonds will finance the construction of a city hall-public library building on the site of the basement library.
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75 years ago: Sept. 26, 1934
The postmasters of three Southeast Missouri towns -- Jack's Fork, Fisk and Greenville -- are indicted by a federal grand jury in St. Louis on charges of converting postal funds to their own use.
Out near Jackson's railroad station is located a "New Deal" camp of hoboes; the governor of the camp is an intelligent fellow who refuses to give his name, but likes to be called the Kingfish; he rules the colony, which varies in size night by night, as the hoboes, who walk up the tracks of the Jackson branch, find that this is the end of the line; most of them return the way they came.
100 years ago: Sept. 26, 1909
The Rev. L.D. Lowe, newly appointed pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, not yet having arrived from Florida, the Rev. H.W. Whitnell, former pastor, preaches at both the morning and evening worship services.
Because of the interior redecoration work begin done at Christ Episcopal Church, no services are held at the building; all services are suspended until next week Sunday, when the building should be completed.
-- Sharon K. Sanders
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