Out of the past: Sept. 29

1991

St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Cape Girardeau celebrates its 155th anniversary with a special liturgy, a pancake and sausage breakfast, and an open house; the celebration accompanies the blessing of the new 7,380-square-foot addition to the parish school.

The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority has a temporary tenant; Egyptian Concrete of Salem, Illinois, is making prefabricated-concrete bridge-piling templates that will be installed in a new highway bridge over the Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois.

1966

Registration here begins in the afternoon for 200 school teachers of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Catholic Diocese, who are attending a two-day institute at the Holiday Inn; speaking at the meeting will be the Most Rev. Ignatius J. Strecker, bishop of the diocese, and the Rev. Carl J. Hangartner, who heads the school of philosophy of education at St. Louis University.

Cape Girardeau is to become the area headquarters for another business; Kansas City Life Insurance announces it will erect an office building at 2125 William St. to serve Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas; the structure will occupy the site of the old Commercial Transport Co., building.

1941

Set upon by a male hog while he was feeding his swine at his farm on Perry Avenue, just north of the city limits, Angelo Moll, 53, owner of the Metropolitan Cafe on Broadway, was severely inured Saturday; without provocation, as 750-pound porker turned on him, knocking Moll down and inflicted a wound in his abdomen with its tusks.

Demand for steel may yet cause the former street car rails, buried in concrete and other types of paving under Cape Girardeau streets, to be dug up and salvaged; mentioned a few months ago as a possibility, George G. Snider, WPA director, has proposed a project of this kind, saying the WPA would furnish the labor to dig the rails out of the concrete; the steel would be the city's to dispose of.

1916

The Methodist Conference, meeting here over the past several days, has an old-time basket dinner and camp meeting at McKendree Church.

The Blue Ribbon Fuel & Ice Co. has leased the Houck lot at the corner of Frederick and Merriwether streets, near the tobacco factory, and will start constructing the necessary building for its business within the next few days; Blue Ribbon recently suffered a fire at its old location at Sprigg and Themis streets and failed to reach an agreement with the owners of the property to again lease it.

-- Sharon K. Sanders