Out of the past: Aug. 11

1993

The Mississippi River continues its slow fall; the stage at Cape Girardeau yesterday was 47.3 feet; the river at Cape Girardeau has been over flood stage -- 32 feet -- for 131 days.

Since its formation in May the Cape Girardeau City-County Narcotics Enforcement Unit has nabbed 23 suspected drug dealers in the area, as well as having found answers to unsolved crimes related to the drug market; in the process of catching drug traffickers throughout the county, the unit has happened upon stolen cars and goods taken from homes and businesses in the area, as well as weapons carried by drug dealers.

1968

A report by the Missouri Catholic Conference in Jefferson City shows that the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese has a Catholic population of 36,608, an increase of 797 over a year ago; the diocese takes in a 39-county area across the southern third of the state.

Mrs. Anthony Roebuck of Rockford, Illinois, is guest speaker at the Woman's Day service at New Bethel Baptist Church; Roebuck, a native of Cape Girardeau, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Lee of Cape Girardeau; she is district chairman of Christian education of the Rockford and Freeport, Illinois, churches affiliated with the Greater New Era District Association.

1943

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Seabaugh of Cape Girardeau have been notified by the Navy Department that their son, R.T. Seabaugh, 24, is missing following naval action; Seabaugh, a signalman second class, was serving in the Pacific war area, and it is presumed it was during recent action in that area that he was missed.

Cape Girardeau County's peach harvest, which in reality is confined virtually to the environs of Cape Girardeau, will be over in another week, say orchardists; it isn't a big crop at that, running between 2,500 and 3,000 bushels, but the price this year is such as to enable those having peaches to make up for the lack of volume.

1918

Adam Cox reopened the Green Tree saloon in Haarig last evening, after promising city officials he would toe the mark in the future; Mayor H.H. Haas ordered the saloon shuttered earlier in the day, after learning that Cox's 17-year-old daughter was serving drinks to patrons.

The very hot weather doesn't prevent a large crowd from taking part in the dedication of the service flag at St. Vincent's Church in the afternoon; people from all denominations -- Catholics, Protestants and Jews -- join in the ceremony to honor the boys in the trenches; gathering at the Courthouse Park, a parade of Home Guards, Boy Scouts and citizens, headed by Schuchert's band, marches to the church grounds, where the exercises are conducted.

-- Sharon K. Sanders