Out of the past 10/18/09

25 years ago: Oct. 18, 1984

Sikeston, Mo., lawyer and banker Robert A. Dempster has been named recipient of the 1984 "Friend of the University" award presented by the Southeast Missouri State University Foundation.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Deemed unsafe after engineers studied the building, the old section of the Chaffee Elementary School remains unused; since the first few weeks of school, pupils have been attending classes in makeshift facilities at the Church of God's Camp Shiloh near here.

50 years ago: Oct. 18, 1959

An open house is held in the afternoon at the Cape Girardeau Civic Center in Smelterville; the center is in the former Glyn Hartle Building on South Sprigg Street; the building has been repainted and furnished to provide facilities for both recreation and education.

Members of the Mothers' Club serve as hostesses at the open house at St. Mary's School; some $75,000 was recently spent in modernizing and fireproofing the building.

75 years ago: Oct. 18, 1934

Hundreds of Southeast Missouri teachers come back to Cape Girardeau for the annual meeting of the Southeast Missouri Teachers' Association; one of the country's foremost young educators, Dr. Goodwin Watson of Columbia University, New York, is the guest speaker at the evening assembly.

Lester Corzine, former Teachers College football player under F.J. Courleux, and Hilary Lee, former Charleston High School and University of Missouri player, are both regulars in the lineup of the Cincinnati Reds in the professional football league.

100 years ago: Oct. 18, 1909

A.J. Vogel of Vogel Motor Car Co. says he has arranged for six cars he recently sold to take part in the big President's Day parade Oct. 26.

With Main Street and its cross streets smoothly paved with creosoted wood blocks, merchants along that street saw a huge increase in business Saturday; Independence Street will probably become one of the main country trade thoroughfares in the city, a feeder to the downtown business district; Main Street merchants aren't too concerned whether Broadway is ever paved.

-- Sharon K. Sanders