Out of the past 10/25/07

25 years ago: Oct. 25, 1982

Acting at the request of Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr., Jackson police closed down a civic club's flea market Sunday because the activity violated the Missouri Blue Law's Sunday sales ban; Limbaugh received several complaints about the flea market, sponsored by the Jackson Kiwanis Club.

Cape Girardeau County Associate Circuit Judge Marybelle Mueller has resigned from the county's Mental Health Board as a result of a recent ruling by the Commission on Retirement, Removal and Discipline of Judges.

50 years ago: Oct. 25, 1957

Influenza continues to take its toll on Cape Girardeau's 14 schools; 999 pupils are absent from classes, just four fewer than Wednesday; the largest increase of absences is at Washington School, where 132 children are out sick.

The Riverside Regional Library Board enters into a lease-agreement with R.C. Landgraf Construction Co., for a library headquarters at Jackson; the building will be erected on South Union Avenue.

75 years ago: Oct. 25, 1932

Henry W. Kiel, former mayor of St. Louis and Republican candidate for U.S. senator, is in Cape Girardeau County with other candidates for a series of meetings; he will speak this evening in Cape Girardeau and at the courthouse in Jackson.

Part of Cape Girardeau County's cotton crop has been picked; the first harvesting has been completed on eight acres of the Houck land near South Sprigg Street inside Cape Girardeau's city limits by John Temple, who rents the land; the first cotton, about 3,000 pounds, was sold for $60.

100 years ago: Oct. 25, 1907

In order to keep its doors open and continue its business, the German-American Bank on Main Street passes into the hands of the Southeast Missouri Trust Co. this morning; L.F. Klostermann is the new president in charge of the institution; he succeeds G.C. Thilenius; the same board of directors will continue in business.

The Rev. C.N. Douglass, pastor of one of Cape Girardeau's black churches, departs with his family for his new assignment in St. Louis; his replacement, the Rev. William Alexander of Sedalia, Mo., is expected to arrive here tomorrow.

-- Sharon K. Sanders