Out of the past 9/5/13

1988

CLAYTON, Mo. -- State and national Democratic hopefuls gather at Shaw Park in Clayton for a Labor Day picnic to kick off the fall campaign; among those attending are Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis and U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, presidential and vice presidential nominees.

More than $205,000 is raised locally during the 23rd annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon benefiting tje Muscular Dystrophy Association; KFVS TV-12 broadcasts the local portion of the telethon from a set at West Park Mall.

1963

Potential traffic problems for the upcoming SEMO District Fair at Arena Park have been eliminated with the assistance of the D.L. Harrison and Missouri Utilities companies; entrances to the park on Highway 61 will be smoothed and widened by the Harrison firm; the utilities company has agreed to erect temporary light poles at each entrance to make entry to the park safer and to assist officers directing traffic.

J.C. Cowles, division superintendent for the Frisco Railroad, says work will begin no later than next week on construction of a new depot here.

1938

The Golden Troopers, Cape Girardeau's American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps, are champions again; last night at Houck Field Stadium, the Troopers won their fifth championship in spectacular style before a crowd estimated at 8,000.

Part of the American Legion convention parade in 1913 made its way down Broadway. (Missourian archive photo by G.D. Fronabarger)

Cape Girardeau's population, already swollen by an influx of delegates to the Missouri American Legion convention, grows by thousands more as people flock to the city to see the pageantry of the Legion's colorful parade in the afternoon; between 30,000 and 40,000 jam Broadway for the parade.

1913

Again this year, Cape Girardeau's public schools are overflowing; the situation is so bad, the district has resorted to transferring students from one school to another in an effort to ease the crowding; at Jefferson School, one of the grades has 68 pupils in a room that seats only 38.

Grandma Wihelmina Fornfelt of Fornfelt recently slipped on peach juice, where the family had been peeling peaches, and fell; she broke her left arm at the wrist.

-- Sharon K. Sanders