Out of the past: July 8

1990

The Rev. Barry L. Pfanstiel is installed as associate pastor of St. Andrew Lutheran Church in the afternoon; the sermon for the celebration is preached by the Rev. Roger Leenerts of St. Louis, executive secretary of Home Missions for the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

Wilton "Witt" Suedekum is calling it quits, and Suedekum Hardware will become Meyer Supply; the story of Meyer and Suedekum dates back to the turn of the century, when George Meyer and Herman Schwab teamed up to establish the Meyer & Schwab Hardware Co. in 1900; in 1912, W.F. Suedekum purchased the Schwab portion of the operation.

1965

Two houses in the Edgewood Heights Subdivision stand in the way of the extension of Route K west of U.S. 61 and will have to be removed; the homes are owned by Oscar Grafner, 44 Camellia Drive, and William E. Cayse Jr., 44 Edgewood Drive; both houses are on the north side of Iris Drive, which will be incorporated into Route K, a four-lane route.

Preliminary plans for a proposed new municipal swimming pool were presented to the Jackson City Council last night; the plans call for locating the pool at the intersection of Union and Parkview streets in the northwest corner of City Park.

1940

E.R. Trickey, county coroner, gives notice to County Clerk Louis H. Schrader he is withdrawing his name as candidate for the Democratic nomination for sheriff; Trickey cites health issues as the reason to quit the race.

Additional petitions, containing 236 signatures, are filed with the County Court at Jackson, bringing to a total of 7,350 the number of voters petitioning the court to purchase a tract of land near Dutchtown as a site for an airport.

1915

A violent storm swept Cape Girardeau County overnight, lightning causing four fires that could be seen from the courthouse at Jackson; Grant Bailey, whose farm is about a mile northwest of Jackson, lost his barn, all of his newly harvested hay, and one horse.

Three new houses will soon be underway on North Pacific Street, around the corner of North Street; Ed Kage is expecting to start grading for a two-story brick house tomorrow on the lot just north of the house he sold earlier this year to Allen Oliver; across the street in the new Matteson Addition, B.W. Fletcher has the foundation in for a large house, and Charles Stehr is grading the northwest corner lot at North and Pacific for a splendid home.

-- Sharon K. Sanders