Out of the past 3/12/14

1989

National conservative radio talk-show host Rush H. Limbaugh III entertains more than 1,300 people at the Arena Building for more than an hour; the crowd is the largest ever for the annual Lincoln Day celebration, sponsored by the Cape Girardeau County Republican Women's Club.

River watchers expect no serious flooding to occur this year in the Cape Girardeau area, nor anywhere else in the state along the Missouri or Mississippi rivers.

1964

Around 5,000 teachers gather in Cape Girardeau for the annual meeting of the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association; speakers will include Dr. James Koerner of Lexington, Mass., president of the Council for Basic Education; Dr. Paul J. Misner, superintendent of schools at Glencoe, Ill.; and Dr. Charles H. Wilson, superintendent of schools at Grosse Pointe, Mich.

Mrs. Lenora Muir, elementary supervisor of the Caruthersville, Mo., school system, is elected first vice president of the Southeast Missouri State Teachers Association for 1965; she will automatically become the president in 1966.

1939

The men wear overalls and the women plain print dresses, as the congregation of the Assembly of God Church demonstrates that one doesn't have to be a fashion plate to attend church services; it's all part of the members' observance of "Overall and Print Dress Day."

Thousands of people are impressed by Cape Girardeau's forward step in modern hospitalization as they attend the open house at Saint Francis Hospital to give the public an opportunity to inspect the new $225,000 addition; estimates by the hospital staff put the number of visitors at around 6,000.

1914

Plans are being made to open the First National Bank Monday morning; the directors believe they have the affairs of the suspended bank in such shape that they may plan on reopening.

Martin Lorberg, the Haarig undertaker, is hobbling around with a walking cane; yesterday, while he was attending to a funeral, he had the misfortune of getting his left foot frozen; the limb is swollen so, he can hardly step on it.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__