Out of the past: Sept. 13

1990

On tap at the SEMO District Fair at noon is the Old Tyme Fiddlers Contest; this evening will see the Kentucky Headhunters, with guest star Andy Andrews, on the grandstand stage; nearly 8,000 people were counted on the fairgrounds at Arena Park yesterday.

Edward Lowe Industries Inc., manufacturer of Kitty Litter and Tidy Cat, will become Golden Cat Corp., following an agreement reached Wednesday; the firm, which includes operations here and in Southern Illinois, agreed to sell its marketing and manufacturing operations in cat food and absorbent clay products, including cat-box filler, to an investment group led by Good Capital Co. Inc., New York, and Knightsbridge Inc., Chicago.

1965

"Rioting" National Guardsmen were quelled by other National Guardsmen from this area yesterday at the Jackson High School football field; the riots, and troop actions to stop them, were staged and directed by a traveling team of military police, the 175th Battalion, headquartered at Fulton, Missouri.

The district represented by Sen. Albert M. Spradling Jr. of Cape Girardeau remains unaltered by the senatorial redistricting plan approved by a bipartisan commission; the 27th District, as before, will consist of Cape Girardeau, Scott, Mississippi, Perry and Ste. Genevieve counties.

1940

It's possible a pilot training course, under the provisions of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, will be added to the curriculum at Teachers College before the end of the year.

E.W. Flentge, 77, manufacturer, former merchant and community and political leader, passes away quietly at the family home, 702 North St.; Flentge was a former postmaster, former collector and a leader in the Republican Party until retiring from politics to operate Roth Tobacco Co.; as a young man, he operated the E.W. Flentge & Co. store on Main Street until he was named postmaster, a job he held for 12 years.

1915

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Haman Sr. depart in the morning for Imboden, Arkansas, where they will visit their son, W.C. Harman, who has a large peach orchard in that place; the younger Haman was formerly a druggist in Cape Girardeau, but left here several years ago to take up the farm life for the betterment of his health.

Mrs. Tippie S. Hawkins, 76, widow of the late Judge David L. Hawkins and mother of a large family of prominent children, dies in the evening, with all her children at her bedside.

-- Sharon K. Sanders