Out of the past: Aug. 8

1990

Three Southeast Missouri House members survived re-election challenges in Democratic primaries yesterday; Rep. Ollie Amick, D-Scott City, held off a comeback bid by former Rep. Betty C. Hearnes of Charleston; Rep. Jerry Howard, D-Dexter, stopped a challenge from Frances Phillips of Dexter in the 156th District, and Rep. Opal Parks, D-Caruthersville, easily defeated two challengers to capture a third term in the 162nd District.

Cape Girardeau attorney Benjamin F. Lewis captured the Republican nomination of Division III associate circuit judge by 378 votes yesterday in Cape Girardeau County's only contested primary race.

1965

Special signs mark the way from Highway 61 south of Jackson and north of Cape Girardeau to Old McKendree Chapel, where the annual worship services are held in the afternoon; preaching the sermon is the Rev. Dr. Floyd V. Brower of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, superintendent of Methodist churches in the Poplar Bluff-Sikeston District.

Red Star Baptist Church has called Marty Sewald on a full-time basis as minister of music and education; for more than three years he has served as a part-time employee of the church.

1940

T.P. Head is elected as county farm extension agent in Cape Girardeau County, succeeding E.T. Mallinckrodt, who will become agent in St. Francis County Sept. 1; the selection of Head is made by the County Farm Bureau executive board.

An 8-mile electric power spur line in Cape Girardeau County is to be included in added branches to be constructed in the near future in Southeast Missouri by the Scott-New Madrid-Mississippi Cooperative Association; an allotment of $270,000 makes the projected lines possible; the Cape County spur will attach a line near Advance, then will extend eastward, north of Advance, near the Frisco Railroad line, through the Arbor community and toward Randles; about 25 families will receive electrical service.

1915

The Rev. F. Decker of Grand Rapids, Michigan, preaches the sermon at the Germany language service of Trinity Lutheran Church in the morning.

Fire again destroys the plant and stock of lumber, paints and other supplies of the Phillips Lumber and Fuel Co., in the south end of Cape Girardeau; the flames are discovered shortly before 11 p.m., and a few minutes later the whole plant is in flames and burning fiercely; says J.W. Phillips, stockholder and manager of the concern: "Evidently somebody who has it in for me has got busy and started this. There may be somebody who thinks he can punish me by doing such a thing."

-- Sharon K. Sanders