Out of the past: Jan. 9

1990

Bollinger County's three commissioners -- Charles Hawn, Junior Cook and Jerry Woodfin -- each file for reelection with County Clerk Diane Holzum, who is also seeking another term.

Progress towards a new Cape Girardeau teen center is intensifying, says project director Les Lindy Jr.; he says the not-for-profit center entered into a lease agreement for a building Saturday at the corner of East Plaza Way and Sheridan Drive.

1965

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Judge James A. Finch Jr. of Cape Girardeau was sworn in by Chief Justice Henry I. Eager yesterday as the newest member of the Missouri Supreme Court; Rush H. Limbaugh, a member of the Cape Girardeau County bar, says Finch's colleagues there are proud to "bring to the Supreme Court the best that we have."

Gustav B. Margraf, a native of Cape Girardeau and a graduate of Cape State College, has been elected managing director of the British Aluminum Co. Ltd.

1940

Silence met the Democratic Jackson Day dinner speaker J. Moore Haw, an attorney of Charleston, Missouri, at the Hotel Marquette last night, when he spoke out against a third term for President Roosevelt; reviewing the life of Andrew Jackson, whose victory at New Orleans was celebrated at the dinner, Haw said Jackson retired from the presidency more popular than when he went in, but that he didn't ask for a third term.

An effort is being made to have the arena building at the new park in condition for use Jan. 22, when the first of a series of Golden Gloves boxing shows is staged here; heating and seating arrangements are to be made, and lights are to be in so that the boxing ring and crowd may be served in good fashion.

1915

Another grocery store will be added to the long string of stores on Broadway; Carl W. Umbeck, who recently sold the store located in the Haupt building, has decided to reopen a grocery; he is having the building formerly occupied by Pfeiffer's 5 and 10-cent store remodeled and fitted out for this business.

D. Reuben Read, a merchant on Main Street 10 years ago, was here yesterday and today on a business trip; he lives in St. Louis and this is his first visit to Cape Girardeau in seven years.

-- Sharon K. Sanders