Out of the past: Jan. 13

1991

New church officers are installed during the morning worship service at Trinity Lutheran Church; they are Dale Kester, president; Michael Ringwald, vice president; Erwin Dost, secretary; and Allen Clark, treasurer.

After hearing presentations from two firms interested in designing a new College of Business Administration Building, the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents has asked for more specific information before making a decision; making presentations Friday were representatives of Sverdurp Corp. and Hastings and Chivetta, both St. Louis-based firms.

1966

The Cape Girardeau County Public Water Supply District No. 1 has exercised options to buy sites for wells and towers; the tracts to be purchased are the Ruben Bogenpohl ground at the Oak Ridge-Pocahontas road junction with Highway 61, the Roy Bohnard tract at Longtown, Missouri, and the Gerald Morrison tract at Uniontown, Missouri.

Bill D. Burlison files for re-election as county prosecuting attorney on the Democratic ticket; he had planned to file later, but did so now because of rumors he was considering running for a different office.

1941

Harry C. Cracraft takes up his duties as presiding judge of the County Court, succeeding Judge Silas P. Lail, who resigned; Cracraft received his commission over the weekend, having been appointed last week by Gov. Lloyd Stark.

Rep. Frank A. Lowry, R-Cape Girardeau, here for the weekend, said the Democrats' move to prevent the seating of Gov.-elect Forrest C. Donnell of St. Louis, has resolved itself into a purely political affair; he refers to the investigation of November voting as "disgraceful."

1916

Bankruptcy referee Oscar A. Knehans sends out checks totaling $7,844.60, the last payments to creditors in the D.A. Glenn case; his action also closes the case as far as the bankruptcy court is concerned; Glenn is now free of any further concern in the matter.

Hezekiah Estes, the Burfordville stock man, sold and shipped 22 mules to W.W. Gillen in St.. Louis yesterday; the day before, he sold four of the long-ears to Wade Anderson of Commerce, Missouri, and still has 10 left.

-- Sharon K. Sanders