Out of the past: Aug. 29

1993

Thomas G. Ogilvie is inducted as vicar of the Lutheran Chapel of Hope for the 1993-1994 academic year at Southeast Missouri State University; Ogilvie will serve the chapel on the university campus as well as Good Shepherd Lutheran Chapel, under the supervision of its pastor, the Rev. William A. Matzat.

Worship services resume at Red Star Baptist Church, 1301 N. Main St., after meeting elsewhere for several weeks because of floodwaters; pastor of the church is the Rev. Mike Parry.

1968

John J. Kollker, branch manager of the Associates Discount and Finance Corp. here, files at the city clerk's office as a candidate for the open post on the Cape Girardeau City Council; his filing brings to six the number seeking the office vacated by J. Ronald Fischer, now a county judge.

The latest of two new high-rise dormitories being constructed at State College is scheduled for completion by next Wednesday, three days before 750 students move in; the northeast dormitory, which will house women, is ready for occupancy, while the southeast dorm isn't; it will house male students.

1943

Two Army chaplains speak at Centenary Methodist Church services, which are being held at the Little Theater, State College, while renovations of the church building are ongoing; 1st Lt. W.N. Ware, former pastor of Maple Avenue Methodist Church and now a chaplain in the transport service on the Atlantic, preaches at a morning service; 1st Lt. Fred Armstrong, former director of religious education at Centenary, is the speaker at the evening forum meeting.

The Rev. Walter Trost preaches his final sermon in the morning at Christ Evangelical Church; he came here June 6 to pastor the church during the summer months and will go from here to his home in Milwaukee for a brief vacation before returning to Eden Seminary at Webster Groves, Missouri, for his final year of school work.

1918

The first native of Cape Girardeau County has paid the supreme sacrifice; Clarence Altenthal, who left Cape Girardeau with Company L, was killed in battle in France; Henry Altenthal yesterday was advised of his son's death at the battle front Aug. 14; after training at Camp Funston with Company L, young Altenthal was transferred to a machine gun company; it is presumed death overtook him while he was serving with one of the numerous squads on the Picardy front in the fierce fighting of the last few weeks.

Sadie Kent, librarian at the Normal School, returns from a vacation, which she spent with the home folks in Malden, Missouri.

-- Sharon K. Sanders