Out of the past 10/24/10

25 years ago: Oct. 24, 1985

Nearly 300 employees of the Tri-Con Industries Ltd. plant here, idled last week when the United Auto Workers went on strike against Chrysler Corp., could be back on the job by Monday; Tri-Con's Cape Girardeau work force makes seat covers for Chrysler.

ST. LOUIS -- Keeping hope alive, the Kansas City Royals claim a 6-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series; the Cardinals hold a 3-2 advantage in the best-of-seven Series.

50 years ago: Oct. 24, 1960

Workers are demolishing a group of commercial structures and a dwelling to make way for the construction of the new Cape State Bank building on U.S. 61, just south of the Broadway intersection.

Two hundred garden club delegates from the Southeast District Federated Garden Club of Missouri are expected to attend the 23rd annual convention to be held at Centenary Methodist Church tomorrow.

75 years ago: Oct. 24, 1935

Former St. Louis mayor Henry Kiel and former judge Charles H. Daues of St. Louis are in Cape Girardeau on business in the federal court; Kiel is receiver for the street car system in his city, and Daues is an attorney for the receiver; early in the morning, the two men drive out to old McKendree Chapel, Kiel having a desire to see the old church.

Only the Poplar Bluff (Mo.) Mules stand between the Central Tigers and a perfect season in the Southeast Missouri Conference for the 1935 season, as the Bengals trounce the Farmington (Mo.) Knights 45-6 in Houck Field Stadium.

100 years ago: Oct. 24, 1910

The commissioners for the Little River Drainage District start on a trip over the railroad systems of Southeast Missouri, in order to assess damages and benefits accruing from the extensive drainage work that has been done in Missouri; the commissioners are Judge William Cracraft of Jackson, M.O. Reed of Bloomfield, Mo., and Luther Conrad of Campbell, Mo.

Minnie Flottman of St. Louis is in the city visiting her son, William Vedder; she is accompanied by her granddaughter, Minnie Brandon.

-- Sharon K. Sanders