Out of the past: Jan. 28

1990

The Rev. Jeffrey Sippy is installed as the 22nd pastor of Hanover Lutheran Church; the afternoon service is conducted by the Rev. Louis Launhardt, pastor of St. Andrew Lutheran Church; the Rev. William Matzat of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church preaches the sermon.

Longtime Cape Girardeau newsman John L. Blue earned the Golden Deeds Award at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce annual meeting yesterday; the award is presented annually by the Evening Exchange Club; also honored at the event was Oscar C. Hirsch, who received the Rush H. Limbaugh Award, and Neal Edwards, who received the Go Getter Award.

1965

Michael Van Weelden, the 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Van Weelden of Cape Girardeau, is the Cub Scout winner in the Southeast Missouri Boy Scout Council of the Nathan Hale Essay Award of the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge; another district youth, Mike Smith, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Smith of Lilbourn, Missouri, is the council winner in the Boy Scout category.

Glen Seabaugh, foreman of Cape Girardeau's park employees, has been sworn in as a special policeman; his duties will be primarily to police the city's parks; Seabaugh resides at the Arena Building in Arena Park.

1940

Francis A. Pfeffer of Cape Girardeau, who has been appointed regimental adjutant of the 140th Infantry Missouri National Guard, made up of Southeast Missouri Units, plans to resign as manager of the insurance department of the Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co.; his new position will require his full time.

Fred Dreher, an artist employed by The Missourian Printing and Stationery Co., has designed a peace stamp, which will be submitted for consideration to Postmaster General James A. Farley by the League of Draftable Men; Dreher, a member of the league, was commissioned by the organization to design the 3-cent stamp.

1915

After moderate temperatures yesterday, Girardeans suffer through a morning low of 5 degrees; on the river, ice floes have that stream blocked at Commerce, Missouri, which results in the Mississippi River at this city's front door being frozen over all the way across for the first time this winter.

Mr. and Mrs. William Kendall leave in the afternoon for New Madrid, Missouri, where they will visit relatives and friends, and look after their property in that city.

-- Sharon K. Sanders