Out of the past: Jan. 23

1991

About 350 persons turned out last night for a rally to show their support for Americans fighting in the Middle East; the rally, organized by staff members of the Dearmont dormitory at Southeast Missouri State University, began there with brief comments and prayers of concern for the troops.

Aided by the lights of a hospital helicopter, police and other authorities searched through darkness for several hours early yesterday morning before capturing an armed robbery suspect from Thebes, Illinois; the 18-year-old man, who had eluded earlier manhunts in Illinois, was arrested in a horse barn at Sprigg and Bertling streets shortly before 8 a.m.

1966

The congregation of First Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau occupies its new church building for the first time; the sanctuary and balcony are filled, and it is necessary to use aisle chairs to seat the overflow; during the morning service, Dr. C.E. Mount, the pastor, ordains and installs new deacons and elders.

The Rev. Max R. Jenkins, most recently pastor of First Christian Church in Stuttgart, Arkansas, is installed as the new minister of the First Christian Church in Cape Girardeau during the morning service.

1941

Contracts are let by Fox Theaters management to remodel the Orpheum Theater on Good Hope Street; the work, which will begin in a few days, will include construction of a v-shaped marquee on the front, similar to the one at the Broadway Theater.

Cape Girardeau will begin a project to make and erect modern street marker posts, as soon as the mold for the cement standards arrives; youths employed under the National Youth Administration will manufacture the hexagonal standards in the space beneath the grandstand at the new Arena Building; about 300 posts will be made; metal placards with the street names will be mounted on the posts.

1916

Common Pleas Court Judge Robert G. Ranney died at his residence on North Main Street last night; he was born Dec. 15, 1849, near Jackson, the son of William C. and Elizabeth Giboney Ranney; he is survived by two children from his first marriage to Elizabeth Giboney and five from his second marriage to Emma Wathen.

The young people of South Cape Girardeau recently organized a Four Leaf Club; officers are Homer Deevers, president; Roy Buckner, vice president; Booth Purnell, secretary; Arthur Poinsett, treasurer, and Norman Seib, chairman.

-- Sharon K. Sanders