Out of the past 4/20/13

1988

A plan has been announced to merge Centerre Bancorporation and Mercantile Bancorporation Inc.; based on Dec. 31 total assets and deposits in the six banks in Cape Girardeau, the merger would give the new holding company approximately a 38 percent share of the Cape Girardeau banking market.

Two motel and restaurant owners say they will no longer collect the city's restaurant tax at their establishments, because the preparation and sale of meals isn't their chief occupation; the owners are Jim Drury, president of MidAmerica Hotels Corp., which operates the Holiday Inn and the restaurant operation there, and Robert A. Drury, president of Cape Motor Lodge Inc., which operates Drury Lodge and the restaurant at that motel.

1963

Cape Girardeau patrolman Naamon Eaker, a K-9 corps officer, suffered wounds of the left arm when one of the police dogs attacked him during a training session yesterday; Eaker received several puncture wounds on his arm from the wrist to the elbow.

The J.E. Latta Construction Co., of St. Louis, contractor for Cape Girardeau's sewage treatment system, will begin moving into the city Monday, and actual work is expected to begin some time during the week.

1938

First official action on the Wappapello dam and lake project -- the name coming from the village by that name on the St. Francis River -- was made yesterday, when 19 lawsuits to acquire land for the site of the dam were filed in Federal Court here by John Weber, a special attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice; nearly 700 other suits will be filed shortly, to acquire the land along the river north of Wappapello and including the territory around Greenville.

Joe L. Moseley purchases a lot at the southeast corner of Broadway and Ellis Street from W.G. Bartels; Moseley, who operates a retail jewelry store across Ellis from the site, plans to erect business buildings at that location as soon as suitable leases for occupancy of the structures are secured.

1913

The Rev. Frank Y. Campbell, pastor, delivers a lecture-sermon in the evening at First Baptist Church on "The Pilgrim Shoe"; 1,000 tickets of admission to the lecture were distributed, 600 of them going to employees of the local shoe factory.

L.G. Stovall and A.S. Handmacher return in the evening from St. Louis, where they attended a meeting of the Missouri Consistory of A. and A.S.R. of Freemasonry; they also attended a baseball game and saw the Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the St. Louis Cardinals.

-- Sharon K. Sanders