Out of the past: May 20

1994

Doug Richards has withdrawn as a Democratic candidate for Cape Girardeau County associate commissioner of the 2nd District; Richards says he withdrew because there is a possibility he will be moving to a residence in the 1st District.

Michael Fichter, a criminal-justice professor at Southeast Missouri State University, has visited Bulgaria twice in the last three years, viewing prisons as he prepares to write about that country's penal system; this fall, he will be back in that part of the world as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching a course on U.S. criminal justice at the University of Zagreb in Croatia.

1969

The Jackson City Council last night voted to cooperate with the Southeast Missouri Clinic Board by picking up a purchase option for the board on 76 acres along West Lane near Route D; as the board is running out of time to raise enough funds to pick up the option, the city was approached to take up the option for the time being.

Cape Girardeau Jaycees and Cape Go! -- Citizens' Goals for Cape Girardeau -- announces a preliminary survey will be made to give residents an opportunity to express their interest in the goals of the Cape Go! task force; Jaycee members will canvass the city in July, using a brief questionnaire compiled by the Cape Go! steering committee.

1944

"Eight-Mile Garden" is swinging into full action with the possibility it will exceed all previous records for brilliance; the plantings along Highway 61 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson improve with age, and the large rose groupings are beginning to draw acclaim from all who pass through them.

James G. Crooks, owner and manager of the shoe department at Feinberg's Fashion Shop, 29 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau, announces he has leased a building from Mike Shaltupsky at 122 N. Main St., and about July 1 will open a retail shoe establishment there under the name of the Connie Shop; it will feature women's and children's shoes.

1919

Residents of Gordonville have evidently come to the conclusion wartime prohibition will continue, and in the absence of the saloon, the village calaboose is unnecessary; the village board recently ordered the jail sold to the highest bidder; Henry W. Macke was the successful bidder at $95; he will use it as a storage room in connection with his mercantile establishment.

Attorney Rush H. Limbaugh goes down to Oran, Missouri, in the afternoon to attend a lawsuit being tried in justice court; he arrives at the Frisco station too late to catch the through train and has to go to Morley, Missouri, and drive to Oran from there.

-- Sharon K. Sanders