Out of the past: Sept. 2

1993

The Cape Girardeau and Jackson chambers of commerce, which for 12 years have been agents for the Missouri Department of Revenue license fee offices in their respective towns, will no longer serve as agents; Gov. Mel Carnahan has announced the fee offices in both cities will be awarded to the Southeast Missouri State University Foundation, which will take them over during the next few weeks.

Lee-Rowan, the St. Louis-based manufacturer and distributor of home organizational products, announced yesterday to its second-shift employees in the Jackson plant the business has been sold to Newell Company Corp., of Freeport, Illinois.

1968

Labor Day, "the last rose of summer," is observed in Cape Girardeau with a general suspension of business; the major event here is the continuation of a more-than-25-year tradition: the annual Knights of Columbus picnic; the picnic began yesterday and continues today on the clubhouse grounds, 318-320 S. Spanish St.; along with good eats, revelers enjoy the Rose City Rides.

Ernest S. Chiles, a native of Bloomfield, Missouri, who was chief instructor of the primary flight school of Cape Central Airways in Cape Girardeau, has joined the faculty of Vincennes (Indiana) University; he will assist chief pilot David Little in the Aviation Flight Technology program and serve as chief flight instructor.

1943

More than 50 miles of Mississippi River front and setback levee area from Commerce to New Madrid, Missouri, is the scene of considerable activity with six construction firms in the field rebuilding the main riverfront levee and the huge protecting setback levee; the main river levee project, under contract to R.B. Potashnick Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau, runs from Commerce to Birds Point.

Pre-Pearl Harbor fathers of Cape Girardeau County, given preliminary screens by the draft board at Jackson yesterday, won't be called up until after Oct. 1; in addition, the fathers won't be summoned to report at Jefferson Barracks for possible military induction until the supply of single men and married men without children has been exhausted.

1918

City engineer Chris Stiver has been granted a leave of absence by the Cape Girardeau City Council until Jan. 1 and will spend that time in Kennett, Missouri, superintending the paving of a mile and a quarter of streets in that city.

Robert Masters, Jackson chief of police, dies in the afternoon following a long illness with the "great white plague, tuberculosis"; Masters was about 40 years old, the son of Lee Masters, chief engineer for the Cape County Milling Co. for many years.

-- Sharon K. Sanders