Out of the past 1/11/11

25 years ago: Jan. 11, 1986

Although spring is a long way off, the January air around here has been springlike; the pleasant weather has meant work on building projects has gone on with few interruptions.

Cape Girardeau city officials have been asked to change the business licensing procedure to facilitate the establishment of a new venture here similar to the Sikeston Trade Fair, where merchants sell their wares in a large, warehouse-type building on Saturdays and Sundays throughout the year; James E. Brewer has proposed using the old Walmart building on Kingshighway.

50 years ago: Jan. 11, 1961

The Broadway Fruit Market, an institution on Broadway for almost 40 years, has disposed of its merchandise to Cauble and Field, wholesalers, and closed its warehouse and office at 616 Broadway.

Representatives of the Jackson Industrial Corp., a chamber of commerce-type unit, plan to check a St. Charles, Mo., metered public parking lot operation; a proposal to set up an off-street parking area at Jackson is being considered; a proposal by the county court to build a small parking lot on a portion of the courthouse yard met with objections.

75 years ago: Jan. 11, 1936

Under the National Youth Administration, established by the present administration to aid students throughout the county, 98 students at Teachers College are receiving a monthly payroll of $1,245.

Raymond "Peg" Meyer, manager of the St. Louis Band Instrument Co. store, 628 Broadway, announces that piano accordion artist and composer Edd Clark will be in Cape Girardeau next week for instrument demonstrations.

100 years ago: Jan. 11, 1911

The petition by the Little River Drainage District to include 50,000 acres of overflow land in Stoddard and Bollinger counties within its boundaries is being heard in Butler County Circuit Court in Poplar Bluff, Mo.; a number of Cape Girardeau lawyers are in attendance.

Col. Thomas Beckwith of Charleston, Mo., is here conferring with The Republican regarding his Indian history, which is being published in this office; Beckwith has spent his entire life in Mississippi County and has secured from the mounds in that county alone one of the finest collection of Indian relics in America.

-- Sharon K. Sanders