Out of the past 9/26/14

1989

Hundreds of shoppers at Kmart, Art Mart and West Park Mall got an unexpected treat Monday when legendary comedian Red Skelton went on a shopping trip; Skelton, 71, who will be performing his one-man show at the Show Me Center on Saturday, arrived early to get a feel for the community.

An application for a charter for a new bank at Cape Girardeau has been filed with the Missouri Division of Finance; the new bank would be called AmeriFirst Bank of Cape Girardeau.

1964

Work will start in the next few weeks to begin preparing Christmas trees for market on the Eugene Seabaugh Christmas tree farm north of Oak Ridge; Seabaugh says about 1,700 trees were sold last year, and he expects the same number to be sold this year.

Ross Young of Cape Girardeau has donated six gallons of paint for painting the interior of Burfordville's Community Club building; the women of the club are looking for someone to do the work.

1939

Raymond Hale, 21, is fatally injured, when the motor truck he is driving strikes the stone side of a steep drive down which he is driving into a quarry at the Federal Materials Co. plant; the truck bounds off the opposite side of the drive and plunges nearly 100 feet to the stone bottom of the pit.

A petition signed by 26 firms and individuals has been turned over to the organizers of the Jackson Homecomers, asking that the city not be again turned over to a carnival company, while expressing hearty support for the celebration; however, it is pointed out that taking the carnival out of Homecomers also takes away any profit seen by the American Legion post, which sponsors the event.

1914

The International Shoe factory here closed its doors Thursday for the remainder of the week, and the several hundred employees, outside of the office force, are enjoying an enforced vacation; employees are scheduled to work four-day weeks for at least the next two weeks.

Vogelsang Brothers, contractors for the new Central School building, have withdrawn an offer they made the school board to compromise the differences they had with the architects; withdrawing this offer, the contractors now demand from the board a penalty of $100 per day for the delay they have encountered in working on the building under their contract.

-- Sharon K. Sanders