Out of the past 1/14/09

25 years ago: Jan. 14, 1984

Cape Girardeau County Assessor Jerry Reynolds, a two-term Democrat, filed for re-election yesterday.

Patrick Doyle, 32, a Minnesota advertising executive, has been named advertising director of the Southeast Missourian; for the past three years, Doyle has been advertising director of the Albert Lea Tribune; the Tribune, like the Missourian, is a member of the Thomson newspaper group.

50 years ago: Jan. 14, 1959

ALTENBURG, Mo. -- Spearheaded by the Lions Club of Altenburg, a movement to form a development corporation to bring industry and more jobs to East Perry County has been launched.

ST. LOUIS -- Mary Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau, a subsidiary of the Potashnick Co., is the apparent low bidder at $822,925 on the first stage of the $130 million St. Louis flood-protection project; the work consists of about three-quarters of a mile of earthen levee along the Mississippi River.

75 years ago: Jan. 14, 1934

Dr. S.E. Ewing of St. Louis, general secretary of the Missouri Baptist General Association, preaches in the morning and evening at First Baptist Church; the Rev. F.D. Owen, the pastor, is ill.

One of Cape Girardeau's landmarks, a two-room frame dwelling at 400 N. Louisiana Ave., is being razed, with materials from the old house being used in the construction of another; the house was built more than 65 years ago by carpenters who were constructing another house nearby for F.L. Taubert; the carpenters later sold the small house to Mr. and Mrs. John Rumboldt.

100 years ago: Jan. 14, 1909

Still battling icy and snowy conditions, Train No. 2 of the Cape Girardeau & Chester Railroad arrived yesterday at a cut near Biehle, Mo., where the engine left the rails couldn't move; the accident happened around noon, and it took all night to get the relief engine to the scene.

J.H. Freeze, inventor of the New Model threshing machine, has returned from Mount Vernon, Ind., where he made arrangements with the Keck-Gounermann Mfg. Co. to furnish iron and steel parts to be used in the construction of the thresher in the Cape Girardeau plant.

-- Sharon K. Sanders