Out of the past: Jan. 7

1990

The Rev. Bill Ellis was honored last Sunday upon bis retirement as pastor of Lynwood Baptist Church; during his more than 20 years of service at Lynwood, Sunday school enrollment grew from 292 to 481.

Construction is underway on a new Hardee's restaurant on U.S. 61 East in Jackson; the new restaurant should be open by Jan. 22.

1965

State College is working toward screening and retaining an architect to design the proposed addition to Kent Library; it is hoped to have an architect hired by the last of February, and that the job will be under contract a year from now.

The City Council, members of the Municipal Airport Board, and a number of Cape Girardeau business men meet in St. Louis with officials of Ozark Air Lines to discuss future operations with respect to the facilities at the airport here; the airline plans to introduce planes into service requiring longer runways than exist at the Cape Girardeau port.

1940

In connection with a recent gift of $250,000 from the United Jewish Appeal for the aid of Christian refugees, Rabbi Gershon J. Feigon of B'Nai Israel congregation here says $750 was raised in Cape Girardeau from the Jewish community; Louis Hecht and Max Blitstein were in charge of the movement.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Machinery for resettling penniless tenant farmers and sharecropper families in Southeast Missouri starts grinding with the announcement that 2,055 acres of land have been obtained for "homesteading" on an easy basis; the Farm Security Administration has leased the ground in Dunklin County.

1915

A mild surprise was created last night at Jackson, when it became known that Henry Puls had tendered his resignation to the president as postmaster of Jackson; everyone, of course, knew Puls would have to relinquish the office to a Democrat as soon as his term had expired, but no one thought he would resign early.

About 75 percent of the most enterprising women of Cape Girardeau and the vicinity attend a cooking demonstration at the Normal School's annual show; Barb Bell, lecturer on home economics for the State Board of Agriculture, and Ida Schilling of the Normal faculty demonstrate how to cook the toughest meats to a state of tenderness.

-- Sharon K. Sanders