121 Years With the Ste. Genevieve Herald; STE GENEVIEVE HERALD, Ste. Genevieve, MO

Dec 3, 2002
100 Years Ago - 1902
The report of the parish of Ste. Genevieve for the year 1902 has the following items: Baptisms, 86; marriages, 10; burials - adults, 20; infants, 10; communions during the year, 7,035; persons confirmed, 220; First Communions, 60; children enrolled in parochial schools, 395.

Another fire scare stirred up Ste. Genevieve last Sunday morning about 3:30 o'clock.  At that time Frank Geiler happened to be out of bed and noticed a smoke at the convent.  He called his brother Will and after putting on their clothes Frank started down the street to give the alarm, while Will ran over to the convent.  He found a box on the ground floor of the back porch in which ashes has been put which had burnt through the floor and set the firewood stored under it ablaze.  A few buckets of water put the fire out before it had time to spread.

75 Years Ago - 1927
Friday afternoon of last week fire caused by spontaneous combustion started in a coal bin containing several tons of coal at the Western Lime Works in Ste. Genevieve and before it could be extinguished the flames burned a large hole in a side wall and the roof of the shed.  An alarm was sent but prompt action on the part of men who happened to be nearby prevented the fire from spreading and it was extinguished by the use of buckets of water.