Out of the past 2/18/13

1988

Adolph Coors IV says he abandoned his family's successful brewing business because it and its riches failed to fill a void in his life; addressing a Mayor's Prayer Breakfast of the Christian Business Men's Committee, Coors gives testimony of how he frantically struggled to reach the top of his family's business, only to walk away nine years later after awakening to Christ.

The Airport Advisory Board has recommended the city begin earmarking funds now for construction of a new airport terminal and look at hiring a full-time airport manager.

1963

Forty Southeast Missouri youngsters became Eagle Scouts in a ceremony yesterday at State College, with Edwin M. Clark, president of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., sponsoring the class; Don W. Holekamp, injured Saturday in a car accident, received his Eagle badge in bed at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

The State College basketball Indians feel like they've been kicked, as the Central Missouri State Mules humiliate them 90-70; needing the victory to clinch their third straight MIAA title, the Indians must now do it in their final outing against Rolla Saturday night.

1938

Mrs. Magdalene Bahn, 87, a member of one of Cape Girardeau's oldest families and widow of the founder and the mother of the present owners of the Bahn Bros. Hardware Co., dies at her home at 923 Bellevue St.; she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Christian Hirsch and widow of George W. Bahn.

Lemmie Kinsolving, 64, owner of L. Kinsolving & Co., a retail firm established 11 years ago at 613 Good Hope St., dies of pneumonia at his apartment in the store building.

1913

The teachers of Broadway and Jefferson schools have arranged to give a picture show at the Grand Theater Saturday night, the proceeds to be used to buy playground equipment for the schools; the moving pictures will depict the popular story of Cinderella.

Mathias M. Nowski, who has been ill for some time, dies at his home on Good Hope Street, aged a little over 70 years; Nowski was of Bohemian descent, coming to this country when a young man; when the Civil War broke out, he served four years in the Union Army.

-- Sharon K. Sanders