Out of the past: Nov. 11

1990

The weather is ideal and the crowds are large for the annual Veterans Day parade in Cape Girardeau; during the service after the parade, a plaque dedicates Freedom Corner in memory of the local servicemen and women who gave their lives; speaking at the event is retired Missouri Army National Guard Brig. Gen. Narvol A. Randol of Cape Girardeau.

Former Cape Girardeau County assistant prosecuting attorney Kenny Hulshof won one of the biggest cases of his career yesterday, when 69-year-old Faye Copeland of Chillicothe, Missouri, was found guilty of five first-degree murder counts; Hulshof is a Missouri assistant attorney general.

1965

Veterans Day is marked with a parade down Broadway and ceremonies at Freedom Corner, with Maj. Gen. L.B. Adams Jr., Missouri adjutant general, as the main speaker; specially honored are three Spanish-American War veterans: Charles T. Berry of Cape Girardeau, P.N. Keller of Chaffee, Missouri, and Charles M. Barnes of Marston, Missouri; Claude Devenport of Glenallen, Missouri, attends the event dressed in his Doughboy uniform of World War I.

A committee of Indian Hills residents at Jackson met yesterday with William J. Kies Jr. of Riverside Lumber Co., to protest the felling of sound trees in the subdivision, as well as elsewhere in the city; Kies agrees to stop all cutting of good trees in the subdivision.

1940

A cold wave, the first of the season, roars out of the northwest toward Cape Girardeau on the heels of an inch of rainfall over the weekend, the heaviest in three months; the first real sub-freezing weather of the year is predicted for tonight.

Robert J. Kammer, chief of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department since 1936, dies in the morning at Saint Francis Hospital; he had been ill only a few days; after working as a baggage clerk for the Frisco for about 15 years, Kammer joined the fire department in October 1931.

1915

The Cape Girardeau contracting firm of W.W. Taylor & Sons has landed the contract to build an $18,000 Baptist church at Osceola, Arkansas; the church will be a brick structure and, when completed, will be one of the finest Baptist churches in Northeast Arkansas; work will be started on the edifice next week.

Roth Tobacco Co., departing from its usual fare, will introduce Red Ring plug tobacco to its customers next week; the new product is in full swing after three months of preparation; Chester Bradley, an expert in the manufacture of plug tobacco, is in charge of the new department.

-- Sharon K. Sanders