Out of the past: Oct. 21

1990

The congregation of First Christian Church celebrates the 100th anniversary of ministry through special worship services, a centennial dinner and dedication of the new church site in Randol Farms Subdivision.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. -- Butler County Publishing Co. has purchased the 15,200-circulation Daily American Republic newspaper in Poplar Bluff.

1965

The city of Cape Girardeau is exercising its option on four acres of property as a site for a Naval Training Center and is expected to close the transaction in about two weeks; the city will then be in a position to enter into a 50-year, $1 per year, lease with the Navy, which plans to build the training center. The property is located north of Arena Park and west of Highway 61.

The Frisco Railroad is building an industrial lead track from its main line south of Cape Girardeau near the Diversion Channel bridge crossing along the south side of the channel levee to serve the developing industrial area just west of Interstate 55.

1940

Petitions opposing the location of the new post office building in Courthouse Park are again in circulation. A public hearing on the site is scheduled in Washington; whether the city will be represented at the hearing hasn't been announced, and there have been no indications the group opposing the park site will send a representative.

Robert Macke has written his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Macke of Cape Girardeau, saying he has completed his work for Standard Oil Co. of New York in the Dutch West Indies, and he is returning to the United States; his wife, who had accompanied him there, returned to this country last July, following the invasion of the Netherlands by the Nazis.

1915

Chris Freeman is nursing a broken finger, the result of his generosity. Freeman volunteered to help a man crank his automobile last night, when it died on Main Street; as he turned the crank several times, the engine backfired, and the crank struck the third finger on his right hand, breaking it near the second joint.

Mrs. Conrad Vogelsang is driven to Dutchtown and Gordonville by her two daughters, Mrs. Edward Nussbaum and Mrs. J.R. Barley of Indianapolis, to visit her brother, Henry Hartung, at Dutchtown and Charles Vogelsang's son, Irvin, at Gordonville. Mrs. Vogelsang is 80 years old, and it is the first time in many years she has been out in the country to either place.

-- Sharon K. Sanders