Out of the past 10/17/07

25 years ago: Oct. 17, 1982

First Church of the Nazarene celebrates its 50th anniversary; a basket dinner is held at noon, and in the afternoon, the Rev. Paul Aldrich, a former pastor, now of Troy, Ohio, delivers the sermon; a history of the Cape Girardeau church has been compiled.

Ground-breaking ceremonies were held last Sunday for the new Rolling Fields Southern Baptist Church on Brannam Street in Jackson.

50 years ago: Oct. 17, 1957

L.G. Barcus & Sons of Kansas City has been awarded the latest contract for flood-control work in Cape Girardeau; the job will be relocation of a part of North Main Street and for a new creek bridge.

Eleanor Roosevelt, who will speak tomorrow night at the convention of the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association, is operating on a fast schedule; tomorrow she will fly from New York to St. Louis and board an Ozark Air Lines plane for the trip to Cape Girardeau; after attending a dinner meeting and speaking here, she will fly back to St. Louis and return to New York Saturday.

75 years ago: Oct. 17, 1932

While Denver M. Wright and his lion-hunting companions search Commerce Towhead, an uninhabited island north of Commerce, Mo., in the afternoon for two former circus lions they turned loose earlier in the day, the dead animals are in a launch headed back to Commerce; Scott County chief deputy sheriff Tom Hodgkiss and Tom Wise, using a submachine gun, killed the lions before the hunt could start.

George B. McBride, 69, dies at his home on North Street; in the cooperage business since his youth, McBride came to Southeast Missouri 45 years ago, living at Blomeyer and Cape Girardeau.

100 years ago: Oct. 17, 1907

John Fashold of Westport, Calif., is visiting his brother, Albert Fashold, a farmer living southwest of Cape Girardeau; this is his first visit home in 33 years.

Don Paar, a popular Cape Girardeau barber, has a litter of dogs on display in the window of John Herbst's saloon; Paar is a great admirer of bulldogs, and has a female that is said to have few equals in America.

-- Sharon K. Sanders