Out of the past 1/5/12

25 years ago: Jan. 5, 1987

The Family Learning Center has found a new home, and plans are being made to move at the end of the month, contingent on approval of a special-use permit from the Cape Girardeau City Council; the center will purchase a facility at 805 S. Sprigg St.

Jackson Mayor Carlton Meyer will be seeking his eighth term of office in April; he's among several candidates who have filed for city posts up for election in April.

50 years ago: Jan. 5, 1962

This undated photograph shows the Bahn Bros. hardware store, south of the Montgomery Ward store. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

A half-million-dollar expansion program under which the Montgomery Ward store on Main Street will be enlarged by about 14,000 square feet to incorporate the existing Bahn Hardware building and another to the southeast is announced; the move follows acquisition of the Bahn building yesterday by Dr. A.G. Juden of Cape Girardeau, Mary Frissell Evans of Cape Girardeau and Eldon, Mo., and Sally Juden Reed of St. Joseph, Mo.

Anthony Carosello, Dale Williams and Bill Ewing, music teachers in the Cape Girardeau public schools, are in Springfield, Mo., attending the annual meeting of the Missouri Music Educators Association.

75 years ago: Jan. 5, 1937

Taking the hump out of Good Hope Street looms as the first improvement project the city may undertake in 1937; the hump is the rise in the pavement on Good Hope Street at the point where the Missouri Pacific Railroad passes under the street.

A proposal to issue municipal bonds of $55,000 to purchase and aid with the development of a new park and fairgrounds west of the city passes with a 4-to-1 majority in a special election; purchase of the land will be made by the city, and work on the park by the WPA is expected to get underway in a month or less.

100 years ago: Jan. 5, 1912

F.H. McGuire, the Cape Girardeau County boy and a hospital apprentice in the Navy who was wounded in a battle with "outlaw savages" in the Philippine Islands several months ago, has been awarded a medal for bravery and has been given a cash reward of $100.

The steamer City of Savannah, which is at the bottom of the Mississippi River at Buffalo Island, will in all probability be destroyed by the rising river; the front of the boat is bending down and its stacks have fallen.

-- Sharon K. Sanders