Out of the past 1/9/09

25 years ago: Jan. 9, 1984

Cape Girardeau County Associate Judge Leonard Sander announces he will file for re-election to his seat tomorrow, the first day for filing for county office; Sander has served on the County Court for four terms.

The Cape Girardeau County Board of Directors of Handicapped Facilities votes unanimously to deny the Southeast Missouri Easter Seals Society application for funds from the county's mill tax for the handicapped; the society had asked for nearly $50,000 from the board.

50 years ago: Jan. 9, 1959

Southeast Missouri Hospital this week opened for the first time a modern pediatrics section, a 22-bed unit occupying all of the fourth floor of the remodeled original building.

BENTON, Mo. -- Mayor Hess Porter announces the Star Chair Co. has taken a 20-year lease on the old gymnasium and school building at Benton, vacated when schools were reorganized; the company will manufacture diversified furniture, employing 35 people.

75 years ago: Jan. 9, 1934

Proposing the opening of Merriwether Street for the two blocks through Happy Hollow, from Fountain to Frederick streets, with the provision for the construction of a viaduct by the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the Cape Girardeau City Council sets the machinery in motion by filing an application for federal funds to carry on the project.

A cafe, formerly operated by A.L. Grissom at 115 Broadway, has been bought and taken over by Zelner E. Stone; Stone, his wife and their child have moved to Cape Girardeau from Monette, Ark., where they ran a restaurant for six years; Grissom has moved to Sikeston, Mo.

100 years ago: Jan. 9, 1909

Under the auspices of the Wednesday Club last night at the Normal School auditorium, Jane Brownlee of Toledo, Ohio, gave an interesting lecture to a rather small audience, taking for her subject "The Moral Training of Children."

The Cape Brewery and Ice Co. is making some improvements and increasing the capacity of the plant; about $30,000 is being expended in the construction of a new boiler room and the expansion of the ice plant, with the installation of new ice-making machinery.

-- Sharon K. Sanders