Out of the past 10/27/05

25 years ago: Oct. 27, 1980

A large crowd greets the first DC-9 jet ever to land at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport.

Cape Girardeau County Court Associate Judge Leonard F. Sander announces that, barring bad weather, county highway department crews will begin erecting new blue and gold road signs on rural county roads later this week; there are approximately 600 miles of county roads, including those in Byrd Township, which takes in Jackson, and Cape Special Road District.

50 years ago: Oct. 27, 1955

Charles W. Boutin, Cape Girardeau member and president of the bipartisan State Park Board, is reappointed to a four-year term by Gov. Phil M. Donnelly; also appointed for four more years is Ralph L. Morgan of Camdenton, Mo.

A school bus and a car are slightly damaged in the afternoon, when they are involved in a collision at the Illmo-Fornfelt city limit line; the bus, driven by Harry L. Green of Illmo, is struck as it makes a sharp right turn, the driver of the car thinking the bus was making a left; no one is injured in the accident.

75 years ago: Oct. 27, 1930

Judge O.A. Knehans in Common Pleas Court orders a 5 percent payment to the holders of receivership certificates and to judgment creditors of the Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad; the payment will amount to approximately $20,000.

A deposit of $84,561 is made by the U.S. government in federal court to pay some landowners whose property in Mississippi and New Madrid counties has been seized in the construction of the setback levee for flood control; this amount is in addition to the deposit made when the cases were filed, and provides a total fund of $146,436 to be paid landowners in 36 cases which have been settled.

100 years ago: Oct. 27, 1905

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Davis, prosperous farmers from near Jonesboro, Ill., are in Cape Girardeau entertaining a large party of their relatives, who are attending a family reunion; the big party visits the Normal School, Regenhardt's quarry, and other notable places around town.

A "boom" is expected soon in Millersville, as the company which owns the flour mill at Appleton, Mo., has added the one here to its possessions; a crew of 10 men was sent out Tuesday to begin the repairs here; it is hoped that the busy hum of the old mill may soon be heard.

-- Sharon K. Sanders