Out of the past: July 3

1991

Workers with Kiefner Brothers Inc. have put the finishing touches on concrete poured for the new downtown pavilion, which is being constructed on the south Main Street parking lot; the 72-foot-long, open pavilion is being built by the downtown merchants and should be completed some time this summer.

After being damaged during a recent storm, employees of Drury Co. are putting new shingles on the south roof of the bell tower of St. Mary's Cathedral.

1966

The Rev. Harold Pickett of Danville, Illinois, is the new associate pastor at West Side Church of God; his duties at the church will be in the areas of youth and Christian education.

Martha Blattner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Blattner Jr., Cape Girardeau Route 1, is the winner of the Stewardship Poetry Project of the United Church of Christ; a gold seal of recognition recently was presented to her at the Evangelical United Church of Christ.

1941

The Golden Troopers will march again; members of the Louis K. Juden Post of the American Legion voted last night to send its drum and bugle corps to the 1941 Legion convention, to be held in Milwaukee; the Troopers will compete in the annual drum and bugle corps contests.

Dr. George Washington Vinyard of Jackson, dean of the medical fraternity in Southeast Missouri, who practiced his profession in Cape Girardeau County for nearly a half century, died yesterday at his farm home; Vinyard was 91 years old.

1916

It is announced this will be the final week of the Dr. Eli Forsythe tabernacle meeting here.

George Meyer, owner of the building in which the Meyer & Suedekum Hardware store is located, denies the moving of the sub-postal station from the Wasem Drug store to Miller & Kinder's store was for any other reason than a political one; Meyer said the rumor a saloon would occupy his building, which is next door to Wasem's, had nothing to do with the moving of the station.

-- Sharon K. Sanders