Out of the past: Aug. 9

1991

The Rev. Larry Rice, director of the St. Louis New Life Evangelistic Center, opened a homeless shelter last week at 713 Morgan Oak St. in Cape Girardeau. The shelter already has put up two transients, an indication of the city's "overwhelming" need for homeless services, according to Rice.

Concrete blocks are going up for the four-story elevator tower on the outside the L.J. Schultz Middle School. Sides Construction Co. is installing the elevator at a cost of $131,500.

1966

Four farms are visited by about 100 Cape Girardeau and Scott County farmers and Cape Girardeau businessmen on an annual tour sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's agriculture committee. The tour is conducted by A.C. Brase and Ernest Beussink.

Alice Ann Schulz, who was instrumental in the establishment of Southeast Missouri Hospital and was the widow of pioneer Cape Girardeau surgeon Dr. Gustav B. Schulz, died Sunday evening at age 77 years. Dr. Schulz operated a hospital for a time in the second story of the family's home at 605 Broadway, and his wife served as his anesthetist.

1941

Demand by rail lines for more ties has the seven tie yards in Cape Girardeau booming. Most of the cross ties are cut at busy local mills, but some still come in that were hewn by hand. So good is the tie business, an average of 70 or 75 carloads are shipped out of Cape Girardeau each month.

Some changes for language courses to be offered in Cape Girardeau schools this fall are planned. At Teachers College, Latin will be taught for the first time in 15 years. French, German and Spanish will continue to be offered at the college. Central High School will offer Latin but may drop French unless more pupils sign up for it.

1916

The big X-ray machine Dr. G.W. Walker recently purchased arrived here yesterday and will be installed in Saint Francis Hospital as soon as the factory expert gets here. When the new hospital was built a couple years ago, a special room was set aside for an X-ray machine.

The steamer Ferd Herold of the Lee Line of Memphis met with an accident Thursday afternoon shortly after pulling away from St. Louis, causing it to arrive here a half-day late. While steaming down the river several miles south of St. Louis, the boat struck the ground. In turning to pull away, the pilot backed it into a dredge boat, breaking three of the steamer's paddles.

-- Sharon K. Sanders