Out of the past 10/21/09

25 years ago: Oct. 21, 1984

Mrs. Pauline Taylor, who has been a Sunday school teacher at Maple Avenue United Methodist Church for 49 years, even before she joined the church in 1938, has been honored by the congregation as Layperson of the Year.

The city of Cape Girardeau last week issued a permit for construction of the proposed new Walmart store, to be erected at Silvers Springs Road and Route K; the permit was issued to Huffman Inc., a Poplar Bluff, Mo., construction firm.

50 years ago: Oct. 21, 1959

Cape Girardeau's United Fund campaign advances past the half-way mark on contributions amounting to $33,503.95; the goal for the campaign is $64,668.

Workers are completing construction of an elevated "tunnel" that will carry water, gas, heat and electric lines from the main State College campus to the new science building; the structure will serve double duty; guardrails will be placed on the edges of the top, and it will bridge the deep ravine that runs through the "Home of the Birds" to the north of the main campus.

75 years ago: Oct. 21, 1934

Dr. Roy H. Kleiser, retiring presiding elder of the Cape Girardeau district of the Methodist Church, South, will go to Fort Thomas, Ky., on Tuesday to assume charge of the pastorate of Highland Church; Kleiser came to Cape Girardeau in the fall of 1931 from Danville, Ky.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Judge Leonard McMullin of Sikeston, the pilot, and three passengers escape unhurt when his eight-passenger aircraft crashes three miles east of town.

100 years ago: Oct. 21, 1909

Mayor M.E. Leming has issued a proclamation declaring a holiday Oct. 26, during the time President Taft and his party are in Cape Girardeau.

A remnant of bygone days has been uncovered by the excavations now going on at the corner of Broadway and Main Street; workers digging out the big sewer pipes for repair before the street paving begins dug into the stone wall of an old foundation; Edward "Tony" Johnson, a man of nearly three-quarters of century, says the foundation was for a two-story frame building owned by A.T. Lacey, who conducted a country store in it.

-- Sharon K. Sanders