Out of the past: July 23

1990

Eggimann Feed & Seed, which was established in 1926 by O.E. Eggimann, has been sold to Rick and Patty Martin; the two plan to keep the business at 514 Independence St. intact.

Planning toward a Nov. 7 vote on a proposed Cape Girardeau-Bollinger County recreational lake is derailed after the Bollinger County Commission decides to delay putting the issue before the voters of its county; the news catches Cape Girardeau County commissioners by surprise.

1965

Cape Supply Co., 24 S. Sheridan Drive, and the four-state, 60-member Associated Builders Center chain announce acquisition of a 10-acre tract from the industrial park near the municipal airport, on which an $800,000 warehousing-distribution center will be; Cape Supply is the wholesale outlet for 60 lumber dealers in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Arkansas.

The General Services Administration has acquired two parcels of land behind the old post office building at Broadway and Fountain Street; government plans call for the razing of the former post office and construction of a new federal office building on its site and on the adjoining land just acquired.

1940

COMMERCE, Mo. -- Struck by lightning yesterday afternoon as he was riding a cultivator in from a field to escape an oncoming storm, Charles A. Demars, 72, was killed instantly on his farm five miles south of here.

A group of Main Street businessmen vote its approval of the Courthouse Park site for the new post office building; the meeting was called so the businessmen of the downtown area could pool their efforts in helping locate a site for the $430,000 building, preventing any controversy within the community that might disturb the possibility of getting the structure underway at once.

1915

Cairo, Illinois, has quit the Southeast Missouri Baseball League cold, but Chaffee, Missouri, has bobbed up to take its place, possibly saving the day; there is no certainty yet that Chaffee will plug up the hole in the organization created first by the withdrawal of Caruthersville, Missouri, several weeks ago.

Hope & Cotner, Buick agents in Cape Girardeau, have delivered six new automobiles this week to Dr. C.B. Ruff, J.H. Friant, William Brunkhorst, M.D. Wilson, R.H. Schultz and the Rev. Michael Helmbacher of Oran, Missouri.

-- Sharon K. Sanders