Out of the past: Oct. 9

1991

A ribbon-cutting ceremony preceded the opening of the new Shop 'n Save store on Silver Springs Road yesterday morning; the new grocery is across from West Park Mall.

Southeast Missouri Hospital receives state approval for a $30 million expenditure that will increase the size of the facility by more than 40 percent; the approval of the three-phase project comes at a meeting of the Missouri Health Facilities Review committee in Jefferson City.

1966

A dedication service is held at First Baptist Church at Illmo in the morning; the ceremony marks the remodeling of the church and the obtaining of new church furniture; the exterior of the building has been cleaned, tuck-pointed and painted; likewise, the interior has been painted, five folding partitions have been installed in the fellowship hall, red wall-to-wall carpeting has been installed in the sanctuary and colonial pews of white and mahogany have been added.

The Rev. Dale W. Ness, new pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church at Egypt Mills, offers his first sermon as pastor, titled "Behold the Lamb of God Which Taketh Away the Sin of the World."

1941

A bill pending in Congress to permit the Cairo (Illinois) Bridge Commission to purchase the traffic bridge here will be opposed by Cape Girardeau Mayor Hinkle Statler; he is opposed to any action that would give outside interests such as the Cairo group authority to get control of the bridge.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- All employees of the Scott County Milling Co., 105 here and smaller forces at Oran and Dexter, Missouri, are back at work, as a strike that started Sept. 15 comes to an end; a compromise settlement was agreed upon at a conference late yesterday.

1916

Samuel M. Carter of the Southeast Missouri Trust Co., and president of the Cape Girardeau Commercial Club, leaves at noon on the Cotton Belt for Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, the center of one of the greatest dairy sections in the United States and home of the Guernsey and Holstein; Carter is accompanying a party composed of the Rev. C. Moenig of New Hamburg, Missouri, and four of his parishioners, who go to buy 25 registered Guernsey cows and one, possibly two, of as good Guernsey bulls as can be found in that section.

Policemen Charles Stone and Arthur Whitener raid a craps game in a shed at the old Matteson paint mill on North Main Street, arresting five young men; they were rolling the dice over a pot of 40 or 50 cents, when officers walked into the building.

-- Sharon K. Sanders