Out of the past 11/5/14

1989

Cape Rock Church of God has named John Stephens of Scott City as Man of the Year; Stephens, a single parent with five children, serves as administrator of Caring Hands Food Pantry.

The addition of a fourth anchor store is being considered at West Park Mall; the 65,000-square-foot store would be built between Famous Barr and Venture.

1964

Naval personnel are in Cape Girardeau inspecting potential sites for a proposed Navy armory; among sites inspected are two within Arena Park and one within the State College farm area.

Albert Schabbing and Herman Keller are winners of special awards at the fifth annual Farm Appreciation Night of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce; Schabbing, farmer and dairyman, is given the annual award for the best pasture of the year, while Keller, agriculture officer for First National Bank, is this year's Friend of Agriculture.

1939

The congregation of First Christian Church unaimously approves a recommendation to make extensive improvements to the existing church at the northeast corner of Themis and Sprigg streets; the $25,000 project will remodel the present structure, making it larger and adding a tower; an education building will also be constructed to replace the present Christian Cottage, a two-story frame dwelling just north of the main church building.

The extended Limbaugh family gathers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rush H. Limbaugh to greet Mrs. Minnie Lee Smith of Alameda, California, who is a direct descendant of the pioneer Limbaugh family of Southeast Missouri; she made contact with her family here when the estate of an uncle, Hunter Limbaugh of Millersville, was administered by Rush Limbaugh.

1914

John F. Williams has sold his livery stable property adjoining the Baptist Church on Broadway and will move from the premises within a week; the congregation paid $2,000 for the property and will have the old barn cleared away at once.

P.B. Lang, the well-known tailor who has been working at the Masek tailoring shop for a number of years, has resigned his position there and opened an altering, cleaning and pressing shop on lower Broadway.

-- Sharon K. Sanders