Out of the past 9/27/14

1989

The Procter and Gamble plant in Cape Girardeau has donated 700,000 diapers to the victims of Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina; two truckloads of diapers will be delivered by Terry James through Gemini Trucking to Columbia, South Carolina, and another two truckloads will be delivered to Charleston.

George Todt appears to have some competition in his effort to acquire debt-ridden Lenco Inc., of Jackson; two other parties have expressed interest in buying the company.

1964

The Lutheran churches in Cape Girardeau conduct a religious survey of the city through the combined efforts of workers from Hanover, St. Andrew and Trinity churches; the canvassers seek to find those families who are un-churched in the community.

Mrs. Stephen N. Limbaugh, to whom a silver tray was presented, was honored as 1964's Outstanding Young Woman of the Year yesterday; she, and other young matrons recommended for the honor by various women's club, were feted at a tea at First Christian Church, marking the annual event under the auspices of the Cape Girardeau Jaycee Wives.

1939

At a meeting last night of the Mausoleum Board of Trustees at the home of Mrs. L.J. Pott, Charles Schreiner was elected to fill the vacancy left by the late Judge John S. Kochtitzky, who also was president of the board; in addition, Al Brinkopf was elected president of the board for a four-year term.

R.W. Cambron and Earl Nanna, both of Cape Girardeau, have invited 100 friends tonight to a cabin on Wilson Road for a fish fry to help them enjoy their catch of the past weekend; the pair went fishing in the Mississippi River Saturday morning and returned Sunday afternoon, having caught 100 pounds of fish; the prize catch of the outing was a 68-pound catfish landed by Cambron 10 miles north of Cairo, Illinois.

1914

E.L. Purcell, former editor of the Fredericktown (Missouri) Democrat-News, will start a new newspaper at Illmo early in October; Purcell sold his Fredericktown paper a year or more ago and went to Texas; he couldn't stand it down there and came back to Southeast Missouri.

Cleopatra Frelling of Benton, Missouri, sings at an early Mass at St. Vincent's Catholic Church; her singing is indeed marvelous; she is accompanied in Rossim's "Stabat Mater" by Esther Peabody, a contralto of note from St. Louis.

-- Sharon K. Sanders