Out of the past 9/6/13

1988

President Ronald Reagan is scheduled to visit Cape Girardeau on Sept. 14, according to local officials involved in planning the trip; the president is slated to be at the Show Me Center tentatively between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.; the invitation to appear here was extended by the University Foundation.

A record low temperature is set in the morning at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport; an unusually cool mass of Canadian air moved into the area over the weekend, dropping this morning's temperature reading to 46 degrees.

1963

Jackson's automobile stickers for 1964, as approved by the city council, will depict the city hall and library and will be red, white and blue; the stickers will be slightly larger than the present ones and are designed to stay on better.

Arrangements for the SEMO District Fair were going too smoothly; the director of the Blue Grass Shows notifies fair officials the carnival will arrive here a day late, Monday night instead of Sunday; still, the delay should cause no major problems.

1938

The convention of the Missouri American Legion swings into its closing business session, with only about 800 delegates left on hand to decide the many remaining issues.

With crowds much larger than usual, the Knights of Columbus held their annual picnic at their hall on South Spanish Street yesterday; because of the American Legion state convention, more than the usual number attended the Knights' gathering, as many as 1,000 being on the grounds at one time.

1913

Cape Girardeau Commercial Club secretary A.H. Hinchey, while looking around the levee for a building in which Landau Grocer Co. of St. Louis might establish a wholesale house, discovered that the building he had in mind had been leased on the strength of the possible coming of an Illinois wholesale firm to this city to establish a branch; the building in question is the old Pott mill, now owned by Julius Fischer and a Chicago capitalist.

About 50 Knights Templar arrive on the steamer Cape Girardeau at noon, here to take part in a ceremony this evening at the "asylum" on lower Broadway; the Knights of Malta will be conferred upon several candidates.

-- Sharon K. Sanders