Out of the past: Aug. 5

1993

The start of school at Delta has been postponed three weeks due in part to flooding; the first day of classes is scheduled for Sept. 7 instead of Aug. 19; the communities of Allenville and Dutchtown, both virtually cut off by the flooding Mississippi, are part of the district.

The net apparently will be coming down on the men's tennis program at Southeast Missouri State University; the university administration has recommended terminating the program.

1968

Ed J. Schwarz, pilot, and Ron Tomme, co-pilot, of Dallas won the annual Missouri Sky Derby held in Cape Girardeau on Saturday; the team received trophies and a $500 check after its aircraft came in first under a proficiency formula; the event was sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Aircraft Owners and Pilots Club.

A rally is held in the Illmo business district in the evening to further promote the proposed merger of Illmo and Scott City; the rally, sponsored by the consolidation committee, features addresses by members of the committee; the question of merging the two towns will be voted on tomorrow, after about eight years of debate.

1943

Lightning, striking during a heavy rain storm yesterday afternoon, killed Max Jaco, 42, and August Kistner, 54, timber workers of Jackson as they ran from a woodland on the William Statler farm near Biehle, Missouri, through an open field toward the shelter of a barn; four other men, three of them brothers of Jaco, were about 200 yards behind the pair and escaped uninjured.

Edward P. Blomeyer, pioneer resident of Cape Girardeau and for many years a railroad executive, is at the St. Charles Hotel for a few days to renew old acquaintances; he lives with his youngest daughter in Tucson, Arizona, and is in excellent health.

1918

The Rev. O.M. Lohmann has yet to accept the call tendered him by the congregation of Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau, as the Egypt Mills congregation hasn't released him from his pastorate there; it is probable Trinity will have to call a different minister.

Holman S. Deane, 65, died yesterday at his home in Cape Girardeau, leaving a wife, Alice Schuchert Deane; two sisters, Mrs. G.G. Kimmel and Mrs. D.A. Glenn; and a brother, E.B. Deane of St. Louis; in his death there passes from Cape Girardeau a name known here since "the Cape" was a village, his father, E.B. Deane, coming here more than 80 years ago from Kentucky; his mother's family came here from Richmond, Virginia, in 1817; the deceased was engaged the greater part of his life in the real estate business.

-- Sharon K. Sanders