Out of the past: Nov. 16

1991

The new mail processing center in Cape West Industrial Park opens in the afternoon, putting its mark on a more automated way of doing business; the postal center is housed in a 37,604-square-foot building leased from Drury Development Corp.

Unlike a year ago, when an earthquake prediction threw off the annual Boy Scouts of America's "Scouting for Food" effort here, area Boy, Cub and Explorer Scouts turn out in chilly, drizzly weather to collect boxed and canned goods for the needy; in Cape Girardeau, those efforts are rewarded with 11,000 units of food.

1966

A 5,000-kilowatt-volt-ampere substation is being installed at Middle and Independence streets; the substation, to cost about $75,000, is expected to be in operation some time after the first of the year.

A cornerstone ceremony for Southeast Missouri Hospital's new east wing will be Sunday afternoon after an open-house inspection of the hospital's new features; the ceremony will be conducted by the Grand Lodge, AF and AM of Missouri, with the grand master, Russell E. Murray of St. Louis, presiding.

1941

Mrs. W.B. Johnson, who recently returned from China where she and her husband served 18 years in mission service at Shanghai, is a guest of First Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau; her husband is still in China, but she returned to the Untied States when women and children were ordered out of the war zone.

The Rev. Galen C. Fain, who has been pastor of a Methodist church at Dyersburg, Tennessee, is announced as the new pastor of Centenary Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau by the Rev. J. Wilson Crichlow, superintendent in this district; Fain will succeed the Rev. Don E. Schooler, who gives his first sermon as pastor of the Methodist church at Chickasha, Oklahoma.

1916

Will Hamilton, a painter working on the Buckner-Ragsdale store, fell through a skylight on the second floor to the first floor yesterday, sustaining a broken shoulder and a severe bruise on the right side of his body.

Riley Russell of Advance, Missouri, writes a letter to The Daily Republican newspaper, asking to place an ad for a wife: "Wife Wanted. Young man, age 30, no habits, energetic and thrifty, wants a wife. Have $1,000 in the bank. Lady must be of good family, 16 to 30 years. If you wish to marry please write or come to Mr. Riley Russell, Advance."

-- Sharon K. Sanders