Out of the past: Feb. 22

1991

Jack Davis, president of Futura Properties Inc. of St. Louis, and William S. Boudoures of William Boudoures Co., a St. Louis realty firm, have purchased an eight-acre tract between Route K and Bloomfield Road, which includes the building that houses Storey's Food Giant.

Ralph Ford, a longtime member of the Cape Girardeau County Republican Central Committee and the party's state committee, has been elected chairman of the GOP county committee.

1966

In separate grade school ceremonies yesterday, two Cape Girardeau Girl Scouts received the Bronze Cross, the life-saving medal of the Girl Scouts of America; honored for rescuing a drowning woman in Castor River last summer were Jennifer Darter and Emily Blattner.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Maj. Clifford Brandon, formerly of Chaffee, was recently awarded the Bronze Star as operation officer in the Second Air Division Joint Search and Rescue Center at Saigon, South Vietnam.

1941

JEFFERSON CITY -- Republicans are rushing plans to catch up with a belated inauguration that materialized with unexpected suddenness; Forrest C. Donnell finally will be sworn in as the 40th governor of Missouri on Wednesday.

An application to set up an extensive ceramics project, utilizing the abundant natural resources for such an industry here, has been submitted to the state National Youth Administration office; Charles Gallaher, an experienced ceramics engineer, who has long been engaged in the business in Ohio, has been employed to supervise the project.

1916

Former vice president Charles W. Fairbanks, St. Louis Mayor Henry Kiel, Walter S. Dickey of Kansas City, Missouri, Thomas J. Akins of St. Louis, Charles H. Daues and 40 others arrive at noon from St. Louis to attend the Republican political meeting at the Park Theater this afternoon and the banquet this evening at West End Hall.

C.E. Mayor, proprietor of the Black Diamond Coal Co., received permission Monday from the Cape Girardeau City Council to construct a building on a lot on Independence Street, just west of Frederick Street; the building will be a two-story brick structure; Al Maurer, the blacksmith recently burned out in the fire that destroyed four business buildings in Haarig, already has taken a lease on the place.

-- Sharon K. Sanders