Out of the past: Feb. 10

1990

The Shades of Blue Jazz Ensemble, a 20-piece professional music group of the Military Airlift Command Band, plays a free concert at the Cape Girardeau Central High School auditorium in the evening; the featured vocalist is Master Sgt. Normia Carter.

Three veteran adult Scouting volunteers are honored with the Silver Beaver Award by the Southeast Missouri Council of the Boy Scouts of America; honored are Stephen L. Taylor of Sikeston, Missouri; Michael J. Mowrer of Kennett, Missouri; and Carl E. Sanders of Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

1965

The former junior high school on Pacific Street undergoing remodeling will be named for a Cape Girardeau educator who spent 36 years of his career in that building: Louis J. Schultz.

A purchase agreement under which Mr. and Mrs. Monroe R. Blackwell and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Armstrong will jointly acquire the Idan-Ha Hotel from the Girardot Investment Co. is announced; Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell have operated the coffee shop and Rainbow Room at the Idan-Ha five years.

1940

Winter rebounds in Cape Girardeau and district with snow and a misty atmosphere, which degenerate into freezing rain and sleet, leaving the landscape and roads slippery and hazardous.

A land patent, 99 years old, was offered for record in the recorder's office in Jackson on Friday; the patent transfers 40 acres of land on Apple Creek in the northeast corner of the county to Nicholas Schramp; on it President John Tyler certified that Schramp had deposited in the Jackson land office on Dec. 10, 1841, an amount satisfactory to the office for that tract.

1915

The Haynes Motor Co. is ready for business; the brick building on South Frederick Street, near Good Hope Street, formerly used as a livery barn, has been leased; the new concern will be in charge of P.J. Laughlin, manager of the sales department, and Charles Pierce, who will look after auto repairs.

Martin J. Dietrich has purchased the ice business of the Black Diamond Coal Co. and a half interest in the Blue Ribbon Ice and Fuel Co.; in the future, he will conduct both the ice businesses and the Blue Ribbon coal business at the Blue Ribbon quarters.

-- Sharon K. Sanders