Out of the past 4/29/13

1988

Cape County Bank of Cape Girardeau and its parent company, County Bancorporation Inc., have announced plans to tear down the C&A Building, formerly known as the Colonial Tavern, and build a four-story bank building on the site at Broadway and Kingshighway.

Renovation of a 100-year-old house at 530 N. Pacific St., which will serve as a center for Southeast Missouri State University faculty and staff members, is nearing completion; the interior of the three-story brick has been restored, courtesy of a $225,000 gift for that purpose from Mary Johnson Tweedy.

1963

Farmers in Southeast Missouri are breathing sighs of relief and making preparations to plant their crops following the bountiful rain that fell on the area over the weekend; Sunday's rain cut short the centennial observance of the Battle of Cape Girardeau at Common Pleas Courthouse and Lorimier Cemetery.

Kevin Brannock, 19 months old, greeted his father, Bill Brannock, Saturday at the bus station with a swollen forehead and a black eye, which he suffered when caught in an automatic door Friday at a local supermarket; Bill Brannock was returning from two weeks of duty with the Naval Reserve.

1938

Bringing the active campaign to raise $25,000 for a new addition to Saint Francis Hospital to a close, Judge I.R. Kelso, chairman of the committee, tells a gathering of 50 workers that a total of $15,278 has been raised.

Elmer A. Strom, who two years ago was defeated for re-election as prosecuting attorney by the Democratic nominee, has filed for the Republican nomination for prosecutor.

1913

J.N. Crocker, principal of Lorimier School this year, has been selected by the school board to succeed Superintendent G.H. Reavis, who handed his resignation to the board last Friday; Crocker has the job with unanimous vote of the board.

Benjamin R. Caldwell, for two years bookkeeper and assistant manager of the Black Diamond Coal Co., has been selected as secretary of the Cape Girardeau Building & Loan Association; he succeeds Capt. H.A. Astholz, who was secretary about as long as anyone can remember.

-- Sharon K. Sanders