Out of the past: April 10

1993

Grace United Methodist Church hosted the traditional community-wide Ecumenical Good Friday Service yesterday, centering on the "Passion of the Lord Jesus Christ"; congregations assisting in the program include Evangelical United Church of Christ, St. Mark Lutheran, Grace United Methodist, First General Baptist, LaCroix United Methodist, Harmony Congregational Methodist, Bethel Assembly of God, St. James A.M.E., Maple Avenue United Methodist and Christ Episcopal.

Authorities have determined the blaze that heavily damaged a Town Plaza warehouse April 1 was "incendiary in nature" and may have been arson.

1968

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- By a single vote, 184 to 183, residents in the Chaffee Special Road District approved the dissolution of the district in a special election Tuesday; it appears most rural residents voted to dissolve the district, while most city residents voted to keep it.

S.P. Neal is at his desk in The Missourian business office as usual, exactly 50 years from the day he started working for the newspaper; it is also his 72nd birthday, and he receives congratulations on all sides.

1943

Mike Shaltupsky has purchased a lot at 509-11 Broadway from the Kresge Co., a chain store firm; the lot is occupied by two small, frame buildings, one housing a barber shop and the other, until the past few months, a retail fruit market; the property had been owned by the Kresge interests for 33 years.

Two hundred girls, representing 25 high schools in the district, register at the Teachers College to participate in the 15th annual Play Day sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association, with Rosina Koetting of the Teachers College in charge; games, played on the college campus, on the tennis courts and on the field behind the library, feature the day's activities.

1918

Floyd Tinsley, a Cape Girardeau boy in the regular Army, has written his sister, Mrs. Alvin Macke, that he expects to cross the ocean in a short time for France to take his place among the Allied troops against the "Huns"; Tinsley belongs to the cavalry; his troop left the States some time ago, but owing to a bad case of mumps, Tinsley was unable to accompany it.

The large warehouse of the Cape County Milling Co. at Delta catches fire in the evening, presumably from a spark from a passing locomotive; the warehouse is full of corn; the building and contents are considerably damaged before the wind-driven flames are subdued.

-- Sharon K. Sanders