Out of the past: Aug. 14

1991

The Cape Girardeau School District is taking legal action opposing its inclusion in a class-action lawsuit contesting the state's public-schools retirement system; if the plaintiffs are successful, participants in the retirement system would lose at least $50 a month in retirement benefits.

Taxpayers in the Nell Holcomb School District will pay more in taxes this year; the district's school board approved a tax hike of 23 cents for the 1991-1992 fiscal year, which started July 1.

1966

BENTON, Mo. -- The parish of St. Denis Catholic Church at Benton holds a public reception in the parish hall in the evening honoring the Rev. James J. Holmes, who recently was appointed pastor of St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Chaffee, Missouri; Holmes served as the pastor of St. Dennis for six years.

James Knuth, vicar at St. Paul Lutheran Church for the past year, preaches his last sermon at the church; Knuth is a student at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis; while serving in Jackson, Knuth coached the White Sox Little League team, the Optimist-sponsored basketball team and the B basketball team at St. Paul; he played in the bi-state baseball league and on the St. Paul softball team.

1941

The government plans to move ahead on the new post office building in Cape Girardeau and is working on details of the proposed structure, said Floyd M. Williams, postal engineer from the office of the fourth assistant postmaster general in Washington, who is visiting Cape Girardeau; Williams said he isn't permitted to state how soon bids likely will be asked.

A force of 20 men continues on the job at Broadway School, putting the old building into shape for use by the district WPA office, which will probably move in Saturday.

1916

Bergmann and Bartels, the big grocery and dry-good store on upper Broadway, is to be separated into two parts; Will Bartels will take his dry-goods stock to the vacant store room at the corner of Broadway and Frederick Street, where formerly a picture show was operated; Will Bergmann will continue to run a grocery store in the building now occupied by the joint stores; the division of the corporation comes about amicably in every respect, according to Bergmann and Bartels.

L.N. Swinney, for the past four months a passenger brakeman on the Frisco Railroad with his home in Cape Girardeau, has been appointed a special agent for the company; he will leave tomorrow for Oklahoma City, where he will watch for crooks and run them down in the railroad yards.

-- Sharon K. Sanders