Out of the past 10/27/09

25 years ago: Oct. 27, 1984

Five more banners belonging to the Cape Girardeau Redevelopment Corp. proclaiming the group's downtown improvement project were reported stolen from the downtown area last night, bringing the total to 13 signs over the past week; a reward of $500 is being offered to anyone who provides information leading to the arrest, charge and conviction of those responsible.

Joan Mondale, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale, will campaign in Cape Girardeau Monday.

50 years ago: Oct. 27, 1959

Melvin Lichtenegger, Jackson grocer, has contracted to buy the building now housing the Cecil Stroder market; the large building will provide Lichtenegger Finer Foods store with five times the floor space it is now using; the stores are across the street from the International Shoe factory.

The long-used Boy Scout cabin on Indian Creek, property of Troop 3, sponsored by Centenary Methodist Men's Club, has been torn down; it will be reassembled across the road on a 22 1/2-acre tract acquired by the Southeast Missouri Boy Scout Council.

75 years ago: Oct. 27, 1934

An order approving a debtors' petition by six bondholders of the Cape Girardeau Bridge Co., seeking relief under provisions for the federal bankruptcy act, and forestalling foreclosure sale of the traffic bridge, is made by Judge C.B. Faris; approval of the petition for time to work out a reorganization of the bridge company means a projected sale of the span will be delayed a maximum of two years.

Highway 74 between U.S. 61 and Highway 25 is closed and won't be open to traffic until after resurfacing of the route is completed; the work is expected to take about 2 1/2 weeks.

100 years ago: Oct. 27, 1909

Commendation is heard in every direction on the way President William H. Taft and company were received and treated yesterday at Cape Girardeau; aside from the president, Cape Girardeau entertained several governors, 50 senators, many more congressmen, members of the cabinet and many others.

E.W. Flentge leaves for Boonville, Ind., where he will look at a tobacco warehouse that the Roth Tobacco Co. has purchased.

-- Sharon K. Sanders