Out of the past 1/30/08

25 years ago: Jan. 30, 1983

Lutheran Chapel of Hope on the Southeast Missouri State University campus has been awarded a $2,000 grant from Aid Association for Lutherans.

After serving nearly 40 years as a missionary with the Board of Global Missions for the Methodist Church and as an executive for the American Bible Society, Dr. Ivan H. Northdurft found retirement in 1982 to be dull; he has returned to Cape Girardeau, where he is serving as associate pastor of Centenary United Methodist Church.

50 years ago: Jan. 30, 1958

There are 246 physically or mentally handicapped children in Cape Girardeau County listed in a special census made by County Superintendent Edwin Sander.

Dennis M. Scivally, architect of Cape Girardeau's scenic Outer Drive and the engineer behind much of the road development over the entire county, is honored for a half-century of devoted service at a dinner at the Colonial Tavern; Scivally, who was appointed county highway engineer in 1908, takes the opportunity to announce his retirement from that post.

75 years ago: Jan. 30, 1933

Additional trees are being set in the triangular park near the Broadway-U.S. 61 intersection by employees of the Cape Special Road District; the work supplements previous plantings there of shrubs and small trees.

The full-time service of Mrs. O.E. Hulehan has been secured by the Central Relief Organization; her experience as welfare worker in St. Paul, Minn., will aid her as she investigates individuals and families seeking relief from the organization.

100 years ago: Jan. 30, 1908

E.B. Brown, for a long time superintendent of bridges and buildings for the Frisco Railroad, has departed Cape Girardeau for Beaumont, Texas, where he will hold a similar job with the New Orleans & Houston Railroad.

Old Man Winter has finally stopped the boats, even if just for a short time; the Peters Lee won't come up this week from Memphis, Tenn., where it went last week; the Lee Company has decided to keep it in the Memphis-Cairo trade until the Mississippi River is free from ice; Eagle Packet Co., has likewise decided to halt the Grey Eagle's trips between this town and St. Louis.

-- Sharon K. Sanders