Out of the past 10/15/11

25 years ago: Oct. 15, 1986

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education voted last night not to make any decisions concerning, or even formally discuss, the failed 48-cent tax proposal; schools superintendent, Dr. Arthur N. Turner, asked that the board make no decisions about what action should be taken following the defeat.

U.S. District Judge H. Kenneth Wangelin signs an order requiring issuance of a subpoena to Puxico, Mo., farmer Wayne Cryts, requiring him to appear in court Oct. 27 to give a deposition and furnish records of possible assets requested by the trustee of the James Brothers Bankruptcy.

50 years ago: Oct. 15, 1961

The new parsonage recently completed for Third Baptist Church at 1712 Randol Ave., is dedicated in the afternoon; a ground-breaking ceremony is also held for a new church building.

Alvin Macke, 1959 (Missourian archives)

Alvin Macke, who conducted the business affairs of The Missourian over the large part of a half century of service, dies of the effects of a stroke of paralysis shortly before midnight; Macke, 71, started working for the newspaper in 1909 and retired in 1959.

75 years ago: Oct. 15, 1936

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Rudert and Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Suedekum return to Cape Girardeau after a week's trip to Texas; they went by way of Hot Springs and Texarkana, Ark., into Oklahoma and then to Dallas, Fort Worth and El Paso, Texas, visiting the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico before returning home.

W.O. Statler, Democrat of Jackson, is appointed by Gov. Guy B. Park as judge of the Cape Girardeau County Probate Court, succeeding the late Judge James T. McDonald.

100 years ago: Oct. 15, 1911

Sarah Leech of Chicago is in Cape Girardeau, working in the interest of women and children who need help; she represents the Douglas Neighborhood Club, which is giving particular interest to the "white slave" subject.

Mrs. Alice Moore of Cape Girardeau has been elected president of the Cape Girardeau County Woman's Christian Temperance Union; a district has been formed embracing the entire county.

-- Sharon K. Sanders