Out of the past: March 28

1993

A new Mexican restaurant, El Torero, has opened in the Town Plaza Shopping Center; the restaurant is operated by the Alvarez family, Juan and Daniel, and a brother-in-law, Pablo Santillan, all from the Mexican village of San Jose de la Paz.

Construction is underway on a new building at St. Mark Lutheran Church, which will house a sanctuary on the upper level and a preschool facility on the ground level; the new preschool will open in September.

1968

The first session of the three-day Women's Missionary Union convention is held in the afternoon at First Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau; Mrs. James Giles, missionary in Cali, Colombia, presents the program on "Witnessing at His Command in Colombia."

About 50 farmers from Southern Illinois, Cape Girardeau County and some bordering counties take part in the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's farm-business tour in the morning; the men see operations of three manufacturing firms and the Vocational-Technical School in two groups led by Edwin A. Blumenberg and A.C. Brase.

1943

The Cape Girardeau Baptist Association is taking steps to have the Old Bethel Church site made accessible to the public, and also to acquire a title to the acre of land on which the old cemetery is located; Rush H. Limbaugh has been employed to handle the local end of the litigation, which will be in the hands of a Kansas City, Missouri, attorney.

Morning and evening sermons at Maple Avenue Methodist Church are given by the Rev. R.P. Basler of Cape Girardeau, in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. J.E. Isboll, who went to St. Louis earlier this week as a patient at Barnes Hospital.

1918

There is a report government agents have confiscated 19,000 bushels of hoarded wheat at Oran, Missouri, and the Frisco Railroad has been ordered to place nine cars for shipping the grain out; the government agents paid the owners the prevailing market price for the wheat and then took charge of it.

MORLEY, Mo. -- The big flag at Morley floats at half staff in honor of a dead soldier boy; William Evans died Saturday night at Camp Funston, Kansas, of meningitis; Evans was 28 years old and leaves his parents and a wife of only a few months to mourn his death.

-- Sharon K. Sanders