Out of the past: Sept. 28

1991

First Exchange Bank Corp. of Cape Girardeau and the Federal Reserve System Board of Governors have entered into an agreement designed to prevent financial problems within the bank-holding corporation and its seven subsidiary banks

The bubble of Cape Girardeau Central Pool, which was inflated Thursday, likely will last only a year or two longer; the city then will be faced with replacing the bubble, building a permanent structure over the pool or constructing some other type of removable cover.

1966

The Jackson School Board last night moved to set up a committee to look into the utilization of school buildings in view of population trends; the trend is toward a decline in the purely rural population, while rural subdivisions are developing in sections of the district.

The Seven Teens, a singing group from Cape Girardeau, has won first place in the local and instrumental division at the Mid-South Fair in Memphis, Tennessee; members of the group are Mary Margaret Tenkhoff, Gwen Beaudean, Pam Beard, Jane Rudert, Carol and Vivian Walton and Sheryl Welter; the girls will return to Memphis for semifinal competition Thursday.

1941

A revival meeting, to last at least two weeks, begins at the new Mill Street Pentecostal Church, 324 Mill St.; the building, under construction during the year, is completed except for finishing work on classrooms and the auditorium; pastor of the church is the Rev. C.E. Barringer.

Paul Corbin and John Hanebrink, patrolmen with the Cape Girardeau Police Department, were among about 100 applicants who were at Jefferson City, Missouri, yesterday to take examinations looking to possible appointment to the State Highway Patrol.

1916

Lafayette Caruthers, for many years a well-known resident of Cape Girardeau county and city, died at the state sanitarium in Farmington, Missouri, yesterday evening; Caruthers was born on a farm near Allenville on Dec. 24, 1864, and spent his entire life in this county; he studied the law and was admitted to the bar at the June 1897 term of circuit court at Jackson; he is survived by a brother, James M. Caruthers, and a sister, Mrs. A.J. Kerfoot.

The Jackson High School football team played rings around the Normal School team at the fairgrounds yesterday afternoon, but lost by a score of 19-7; sheer weight of the Normals was responsible for the defeat of the lads from the county seat.

-- Sharon K. Sanders