Out of the past 10/15/09

25 years ago: Oct. 15, 1984

The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents gives its consent to an architectural plan for the Cape Girardeau multipurpose building, which calls for an approximately 122,000-square-foot, two-level building instead of two separate structures as was originally proposed.

Members of the Jackson Board of Aldermen discuss what to do about Otis Street, which has shifted downhill, cracking driveways and possibly causing damage to home foundations.

50 years ago: Oct. 15, 1959

Several hundred Boy Scouts from throughout the Southeast Missouri area, including two units from Cape Girardeau, are routed out of bed at 5:30 a.m. to participate in a council-wide unit mobilization program to prepare them for emergency action.

Consolidation of the towns of Ancell and Fornfelt is being broached as a possibility by the reorganized Fornfelt Booster Club.

75 years ago: Oct. 15, 1934

Dr. G.W. Walker is traveling to Boston, Mass., where the degree of a fellow in the American College of Surgeons will be conferred upon him Friday night; Walker has been practicing his profession in Cape Girardeau since 1904.

Farmers around Crump and west of that village along Crooked Creek report having seen at least two deer, a doe and a 3-point buck, in that community; these deer have been in that territory all summer; they were seen earlier on the William Brown farm and on the L.E. Crump place.

100 years ago: Oct. 15, 1909

The Rev. R.M. O'Regan of LaSalle, Ill., is in Cape Girardeau, having arrived on the noon train to visit his sister, Mrs. E. Dempsey; O'Regan usually visits his sister each fall.

It has been decided that the four torpedo boats, each belching volumes of smoke from their four smoke stacks, will start out of St. Louis the morning of Oct. 25, rather than leave that town with the rest of the presidential flotilla; the torpedo boats will run to Memphis and at that point will receive the president and his party.

-- Sharon K. Sanders