Out of the past: June 23

1990

Randy Corse, park archaeologist, teaches fire-starting and other outdoor skills as part of a wilderness survival course at Trail of Tears State Park. Those skills, according to Corse, were used by prehistoric people.

The commemorative plaques in Freedom Corner at Broadway and West End Boulevard have been removed for cleaning. The plaques, which normally are mounted on brick pillars at that corner of Capaha Park, bear the names of area war dead from World War I, World War II and the Korean and Vietnam conflicts.

1965

Postmaster Ted R. Regenhardt announces the Cape Girardeau Post Office will begin moving Saturday from its home of 55 years in the Federal Building at Broadway and Fountain Street to its new structure at Bellevue and Frederick; the new facility should be open for business at 8:30 a.m. Monday.

ALTENBURG, Mo. -- A plan to form a local corporation to install and operate a Mississippi River ferry service at Wittenberg, Missouri, seems to have evaporated at present, but prospects for the ferry are brighter than ever; an Illinois ferry operator is interested in moving his ferry to the Wittenberg site.

1940

The congregation of the Presbyterian Church at Jackson dedicates its fine, new stone edifice. The Rev. W.J. Gammon, former pastor, preaches at the service. Pastor of the recently completed church is the Rev. S.H. Salmon.

An electrically controlled pipe organ has been purchased by Trinity Lutheran Church for use in the church auditorium. The Moehler organ is being manufactured in Hagerstown, Maryland. It will be sent here early in the fall and will be dedicated in late September. The console will be in the balcony, and the pipes will be built in on either side of the big belfry. Cost of the instrument will be about $6,500.

1915

Louis Houck, president of the Normal School Board of Regents, and Christine Wheeler, secretary, return from Kennett, Missouri, where they went Sunday to accept from Dr. A.T. Chatham a collection of ancient guns, rifles, pistols, swords, bayonets and other instruments of early warfare, which has been donated to the school.

Kenrick Burrough arrives home from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is studying law at Harvard University. Burrough graduated from Yale last year with high honors.

-- Sharon K. Sanders