Out of the past 10/16/10

25 years ago: Oct. 16, 1985

Tri-Con Industries Ltd. will lay off its entire 275-man work force at the auto seat cover manufacturing plant in Cape Girardeau Thursday in response to a strike by auto workers at Chrysler Corp. manufacturing plants throughout the United States and Canada.

A sharply divided Cape Girardeau City Council, over a flood of objections by Mayor Howard C. Tooke, votes 4-3 to hire a Kansas City engineering firm to conduct a preliminary study of the flood problem in the city's west end.

50 years ago: Oct. 16, 1960

Cape Girardeau County's total tax charge on all taxable property has risen this year to $2,319,913.35, the highest amount on record.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- A fire which broke out in the Sikeston Compress and Warehouse yesterday afternoon damaged over 550 bales of cotton; Sikeston firemen fought the blaze for seven hours.

75 years ago: Oct. 16, 1935

The Missourian begins publishing a series of articles by Professor R.S. Douglass on the history of Southeast Missouri.

Mrs. Virginia Hunter Houck and daughter, Frances, arrived yesterday from Los Angeles and will be quartered at the Idan-Ha Hotel until they can find permanent quarters; Mrs. Houck says she will build a house here, if she can find a location that suits her; she is the widow of L.B. Houck, who died in 1930 in California.

100 years ago: Oct. 16, 1910

William Boggs, aged about 66 years, and for several years the mail carrier in Illmo, dies in the morning from injures received last week when he was kicked by a horse.

At a union meeting held at Centenary Methodist Church, prohibitionists decide to make a strong effort in behalf of their cause; Judge G.O. Nations of Farmington, Mo., has been engaged to speak Tuesday evening at the corner of Main and Themis streets; a choir, composed of singers from all the churches here, will furnish the music.

-- Sharon K. Sanders