Out of the past 2/20/13

1988

A parade of Republican officials urges a Cape Girardeau County Lincoln Day crowd at the Arena Building to build on the foundations of the party begun by Abraham Lincoln, to continue the state reforms begun by John Danforth 20 years ago and to continue the movement of the nation started by President Reagan eight years ago.

Bishop W.T. Handy Jr. of the Missouri Area United Methodist Church speaks to about 200 youth from Methodist churches in Southeast Missouri, who gather at Grace United Methodist Church for Confirmation Day.

1963

Members of the Ollen Deneke family lost virtually everything they owned when a fire nearly destroyed their home on Florence Street in Jackson last night; the attic or third-floor level was burned away and the roof structure collapsed.

Rush H. Limbaugh Jr., a Cape Girardeau attorney, lands a private airplane in a wheat field near Jefferson City during a blinding snowstorm; Limbaugh's four-passenger craft makes a perfect landing in a field about 25 miles east of the capital.

1938

Babies at Maple Avenue Methodist Church are baptized in the morning with water from the Jordan River; the water was brought to this country by the presiding elder, the Rev. J. Wilson Crichlow, who has been lecturing at the church on his travels in the Holy Land.

I. Ben Miller

I. Ben Miller, 74, founder of the ice cream manufacturing plant that bore his name and for nearly 60 years owner of a drugstore and confectionery in Cape Girardeau, died last night at a local hospital.

1913

Teichmann & Winningham, proprietors of the Boston Grocery, located at the northwest corner of Main Street and Broadway, have leased the room occupied for many years by a harness shop on the opposite side of the street; as soon as extensive improvements are made, the grocery will move there; it is rumored that the Boston was ordered out to make room for a saloon.

A man from Mt. Vernon, Ill., has been in the city and about closed on a lease for the Walther building at the corner of Broadway and Frederick Street; he proposes to use it as a moving picture theater.

-- Sharon K. Sanders