Out of the past: Aug. 4

1990

Three Cape Girardeau banks have frozen the accounts of WISER Inc., forcing a WISER official to announce yesterday the financially troubled center will close immediately. The official also stated the center will be unable to meet its payroll obligations for its last two-week payroll period.

Cape Girardeau County Presiding Judge Gene Huckstep yesterday declared he believes the proposed Cape Girardeau-Bollinger County recreation lake is dead. Huckstep was speaking at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce First Friday Coffee.

1965

Traffic moved for the first time yesterday over the new section of Interstate 55 between Scott City and Benton, Missouri, opening the route almost all the way from Fruitland to Sikeston, Missouri. Only about a mile still is two-lane travel, around work on the Scott City interchange.

Attorney Rush H. Limbaugh says three bids have been received for the purchase of the St. Charles Hotel on Main Street, but all have been rejected. Limbaugh and Edward J. Bauerle advertised for bids as executors of the will of Earl G. Gramling. The executors now plan to sell the building at public auction.

1940

The congregation of the Church of the Nazarene, Park Avenue at Merriwether Street, plans to complete the edifice this summer. At present, the building consists only of the basement, which was built two years ago.

Dr. John A. Abel, pastor of the Christian Church, accompanied by his wife and their small daughter, Rita Kay, leave after the morning worship service for a three-week vacation; in his absence, the pulpit will be filled with guest ministers.

1915

The little band of women who put in so many hours working for the money to erect the statue fountain in Courthouse Park recently have had a bronze plaque installed on the west side of the base. It reads: "In memory of the soldiers of the Civil War. Erected by Woman's Relief Corps, 1911."

Otis Goza, the well-known livery man on lower Broadway, plans to move his business from the present location to the old mill property on Main Street, just north of Broadway. Goza says the new location will provide more room for his fast-growing business. He has just received 12 fine horses, which he purchased recently in St. Louis.

-- Sharon K. Sanders