Out of the past: Oct. 10

1991

The Whitewater post office is among 20 small post offices in Missouri being relocated to new modular units. The specially constructed trailers are part of a pilot project to determine whether modular units are more cost-efficient than traditionally constructed buildings.

A fundraising campaign supporters of Cape Girardeau Public Library hope will raise $123,000 for the purchase of a bookmobile and books to fill it will kick off Saturday during the Southeast Missouri State University homecoming parade.

1966

Cape Girardeau County Court adjourns early and goes with Albert C. Lowes to inspect county roads in Cape County Water Supply District 1 in the northeast part of the county. The court has been getting complaints about the condition of the roads since water lines have been put in along the edge of the roads and asked Lowes, attorney for the water district, to join the court for a tour.

Bishop Homer A. Tomlinson of New York, who crowned himself king of the world at Jerusalem this weekend, visited Cape Girardeau two years ago. He is an official of a branch of the Church of God.

1941

The Mississippi River is falling after reaching a crest stage late yesterday of 29.8 feet, but U.S. Engineers advise another two-foot rise is on the way down the Missouri River. The flood crest is expected to pass before the additional water reaches Cape Girardeau.

Joe Hensley and Harry F. Leuer, both of Cape Girardeau, will go to Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Sunday to start work Monday under R.G. Taber, chief engineer on a project of the Stone Webster Co., an engineering and operating concern. Stone Webster has the contract to supervise the construction of a building at Chattanooga for the Hercules Powder Co.

1916

At the quarterly meeting of the Lutheran church in Jackson on Sunday, it was decided to take over for a teacher's dwelling the house standing opposite the church on Second West Street, which was sold by the executor of the H.R. Quinn estate some weeks ago and tentatively bid in by the trustees of the church at that time. The congregation will remodel and improve the house before it becomes the home of professor B.F. Griebel and his bride of a few months.

A wrestling match will be staged this evening at the Opera House on Broadway between Victor Miller of St. Paul, Missouri, and P.G. McCoy of St. Louis. Both are in the welterweight class. Promoting the match are four young Cape Girardeau men, Hearl Tibbs, Irvy Meyers, Albert Rieck and R.E. Smith.

-- Sharon K. Sanders