Out of the past: July 17

1991

Cape Girardeau City Councilman David Limbaugh is keynote speaker at the Regional Commerce and Growth Association's monthly membership meeting at the Holiday Inn; Limbaugh tells the group fractious rivals in the city should strive to resolve conflicts rather than pretend they don't exist.

The Show Me Center is hosting the two-day New Trends in Agriculture Show; many products, implements and services related to the farming industry are on display.

1966

The congregation of First Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau votes to accept the resignation of its pastor, C.E. Mount, and names a nine-member nominating committee to recommend a new pastor; Mount intends to retire from the pulpit.

The Rev. W.E. Pitts, pastor of Second Baptist Church, has resigned; he has accepted the pastorate at Washington Avenue Baptist Church in Springfield, Missouri, and his wife will be teaching in the school system there; while pastor in Cape Girardeau, Pitts has been active in numerous organizations, including the local NAACP branch, the Civic Center and Boy Scouting; Mrs. Pitts was a teacher at May Greene School.

1941

WASHINGTON -- Legislation to authorize the Cairo (Illinois) Bridge Commission to acquire and operate the toll bridge across the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau has been introduced in Congress by U.S. Rep. C.W. Bishop, Republican of Illinois; the Ohio River Commission also has taken steps recently to buy the bridge over the Mississippi River at Cairo.

Cape Girardeau Mayor Hinkle Statler appoints A.S. Reed police judge, succeeding Paul E. Kaiser, who recently was named chief warden of the state prison at Jefferson City; the office pays $50 a month, and the court ordinarily is in session twice a week; Reed is district manager for the Aetna Life Insurance Co.

1916

All records for hot weather so far this summer are broken when thermometers reach 101 degrees in the shade at 3 p.m.; yesterday's high mark was 100 degrees.

W.S. Allen, one of Cape Girardeau's efficient rural free delivery carriers, was elected a delegate at the state meeting held at Hannibal, Missouri, last week to attend the national convention of rural free delivery carriers to be held in Chicago in August; as only eight delegates were chosen from Missouri, Allen feels as though he was greatly honored.

-- Sharon K. Sanders