Out of the past: Sept. 5

1993

While the high water has passed to the south, the repairs of levees damaged in flooding along the upper Mississippi River has just begun; the flood broke through or topped more than two-thirds of the 1,576 levees along the Missouri and upper Mississippi river basins, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in levee damage.

The Rev. William H. Marshall, pastor of the Assembly of God Church in Chaffee, Missouri, and overseer of the Bethesda Fellowship in Cape Girardeau, recently returned from a ministry crusade in St. Petersburg, Russia; he was accompanied on the trip by Paul and Jan Crouch, hosts of Trinity Broadcasting Network.

1968

Lee-Rowan Co., manufacturer in Jackson of bathroom and closet accessories, plans to locate another plant in Jackson, contingent on passage of a $500,000 industrial bond issue; the Jackson Chamber of Commerce heard the proposal last night from Desmond Lee, president of the company.

A delegation from South Cape Girardeau, returning to the city council chambers a second time last night, belligerently demanded "something be done about the problems in that community"; apparent leader of the group was Bob Williams, a Community Action worker.

1943

The Rev. E.W. Maechtle is ordained at Christ Evangelical Church; it is the first ordination service for the ministry conducted by the congregation; the service of ordination is conducted by the Rev. Ralph E. Weisser, until recently pastor of the local church and now at Indianapolis; Maechtle was born in Heilbron, Germany, a son of Adolf and Marie Herold Maechtle; he came to Cape Girardeau in 1923.

It's a memorable day for the congregation of the General Baptist Church, Broadway and Spanish Street; an all-day service celebrates the retirement of the church's indebtedness, including the burning of $6,000 in notes; the congregation purchased the church property from First Baptist Church in 1927.

1918

Three persons are seriously injured and two others receive lesser hurts at 4:30 p.m., when the long Cape Girardeau Northern trestle over Williams Creek, three miles west of Cape Girardeau, collapses as the train passes over it.

Judge Charles Leedy of Plattsburg, Missouri, is spending several days in Cape Girardeau looking for a house preparatory to moving his family to this city; for many years, Leedy was a resident of Scott County, but left there some years ago for Clinton County; he has served several terms there as an official, at present being probate judge; Leedy plans to manage the estate of the late Ben F. Marshall, who died here a little more than a year ago.

-- Sharon K. Sanders