Out of the past 2/11/14

1989

Polly Cotner accepts the Evening Exchange Club's Golden Deeds Award for her husband; Dr. Dan B. Cotner is in Brazil on a humanitarian mission; also at the annual Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce dinner, Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. is presented the first Award of Merit by John L. Blue.

DuShell's Furniture has opened a new budget store in downtown Cape Girardeau; it's operating out of a 14,000-square-foot store at 34 N. Main St.

1964

Politics in Cape Girardeau is ramping up; city fire inspector Dewey Hinton yesterday became the 12th candidate to file for city commissioner; also yesterday, Mrs. Melvin C. Kasten, who is completing her first term as a member of the Cape Girardeau School Board, filed for re-election.

Two highway patrolmen from Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop E at Poplar Bluff, Mo. -- Norman Copeland of Cape Girardeau and Bill Adams of Kennett, Mo., and a former Cape Girardeau policeman -- have been selected for duty at the Missouri Pavilion during part of the New York World's Fair.

1939

In raids at three Cape Girardeau businesses overnight, burglars obtained little loot, but did considerable damage; places entered were Dormeyer drugstore, 1127 Broadway; the Brinkopf service station, 1201 Broadway, and the Mulkey service station, 118 N. Spanish St.

Although drawing little public notice, oil prospecting activity in Southeast Missouri is continuing; a test well being sunk by Deimund Oil Co. in Bollinger County northwest of Advance, Mo., is down 800 feet, with progress slow because of a strata of limestone through which the drill is passing.

1914

About two weeks ago, a poor woman died here leaving four small children, including a newborn; last night, the chairman of the Provident Association took the infant to St. Louis to an orphans' home; the plight of these children demonstrates that Cape Girardeau has no place or person to take temporary charge of a homeless child; the child welfare committee of the Woman's League is hoping to establish such a home.

George Waters, the well-known shoe salesman, is having another story added to his home on South Spanish Street.

-- Sharon K. Sanders