Out of the past: June 24

1990

A Mission Festival and auction are held at New McKendree United Methodist Church in Jackson; preaching at the morning services is Kirk B. Weaver, director of development for Epworth Children's Home in Webster Groves, Missouri; the afternoon auction benefits the statewide ecumenical Festival of Sharing.

The old Independence Street Public Warehouse, 1901 Independence St., will undergo interior and exterior renovations and will be converted into retail space; another building at 1905 Independence has been demolished, and the area will become a parking lot.

1965

State College president Mark F. Scully announces plans to acquire a computer that could be used on a contract basis by Southeast Missouri businesses and schools; the computer would be leased at a cost of $2,400 per month from International Business Machines Corp.

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. -- Construction of the bridge to span the Mississippi River between this city and a point west of Dyersburg, Tennessee, is scheduled to begin late in 1966 and will be finished in 1969 at an estimated cost of $27,000,000.

1940

H.E. Scheper of Cape Girardeau has purchased a two-place Cub airplane, which he will keep at the Major Cuskaden farm south of the city; Scheper, superintendent of the Leming Orchards, plans to fly the 1939 model plane for private purposes.

Employees of the bridge department of the Frisco Railroad are rebuilding about 100 feet of the north end of the concrete railing that tops the seawall along the Water Street frontage of the Mississippi River, between Independence and Themis streets; much of the concrete of the railing has broken away, and in some places entire sections of the wall are being removed and rebuilt.

1915

While picking bananas off a stem at his Main Street fruits store, Joe Caloras notices a rather large spider running over the fruit; he is informed that it is a tarantula; the spider has been placed in a glass jar and will be saved for professor Homer Roberts of the Normal School's biology department; it is the fuzziest, most fearful-looking spider ever seen in the city.

The old Riverview saloon on the corner of Broadway and Water Street is being remodeled, and it is said will be opened again in the near future.

-- Sharon K. Sanders