Out of the past: Aug. 22

1990

Fall semester enrollment is up this year at Southeast Missouri State University, reversing a recent trend of declining enrollments at the school; the headcount after the first day of classes Monday stood at 8,475, up 2.7 percent over last year's first-day enrollment.

The Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union has announced it has canceled Friday's election at Blair Industries; plant workers were scheduled to vote on whether to affiliate with the union.

1965

In the absence of the Rev. J. Ray Trotter, minister, the pulpit at Centenary Methodist Church is filled at the morning worship hour by Dr. Forrest H. Rose, dean of State College; Rose is a member of the official board of Centenary Church, chairman of the commission on finance, and served as a lay delegate to the annual meeting of the Missouri East Conference of the Methodist Church in June.

The field for the primary election for the new City Council was completed yesterday with the filing of Mayor W.E. Davis and Orville Boswell as candidates; 25 men are hoping to become members of the first council to operate under the new council-manager system.

1940

During a special session of the City Council, a petition is filed protesting the dumping of all sorts of waste materials and burning of it in the city dump near North Street, between Main and Fountain streets.

National Guardsmen, including the 140th Infantry, are due back this weekend from Camp Riley, Minnesota, after nearly three weeks of intensive training; but there are some reports that at least some of the regiments may be called again within a few weeks for long periods of additonal training; it is rumored that Guardsmen may be called for a year's camp training.

1915

The Rev. J.O. Rapp, district superintendent, preaches in the English language at the morning communion service at the German Methodist Episcopal Church.

The Frisco Railroad continues to encounter serious trouble with floodwaters; the Meramec River sweeps several hundred feet of its track south of the bridge from its moorings; with the track out, Frisco communication between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis is broken completely; it will likely remain broken for several days, until the Meramec flood recedes far enough to permit a small army of laborers to restore the dump and rebuild the track and trestle that have been washed away.

-- Sharon K. Sanders