Out of the past 10/7/13

1988

U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson and Democratic challenger Wayne Cryts will square off Saturday at a Paducah, Ky., television station in the first of three debates; the debate will be broadcast that evening.

Six issues that will be on the Nov. 8 general election ballot are discussed at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee; voters will consider four statewide issues and two local issues; the latter two provide for a 10-year quarter-cent capital improvement sales tax for flood control and the establishment of sewer connection fees for new users.

1963

Footings are being excavated for the new combined Frisco freight and passenger depot to be erected at a cost of $50,000 on a site immediately north of the present frame structure on South Main Street.

The rural mail station at Allenville will be discontinued as of Nov. 30, at which time the clerk, Thelma Hendrickson, will retire; patrons will then receive their mail by erecting boxes on Chaffee Route 2, which passes through Allenville.

1938

The E.A. Brunson Construction Co. of St. Louis submits the low bid when the Teachers College Board of Regents receives offers on a contract to build the men's dormitory at the college.

Mohawk Stages, operating motor bus lines between Cape Girardeau, St. Louis and Illinois and Kentucky points, will suspend operations Sunday night; the equipment, consisting of 10 buses, will be sold, and Lloyd V. Hill and his father, J.E. Hill, will then devote their full time to the operation of the Cape Yellow Cab Co.

1913

In one of those frontier duels that years ago were common in the extreme south end of Southeast Missouri, Hayti marshal William Knight and City Alderman Henry Ransburg shot each other in a Hayti saloon; both men died from their wounds.

Thieves broke into O.W. Moore's store in Fornfelt again Thursday night and made off with a wagon load of goods, including two shotguns, all of the Waldeck breakfast bacon in the store, a suit of clothes, pants, shoes, hats, flour, canned goods, gloves, jewelry, cutlery and other goods.

-- Sharon K. Sanders