Out of the past 10/28/11

25 years ago: Oct. 28, 1986

Residents of the Nell Holcomb School District will be awaiting election returns Nov. 4 to see whether a 94-cent tax levy increase proposed for the district passed; the increase would pay tuition costs for the district's ninth-, 10th-, 11th- and 12th-graders who are attending the Cape Girardeau and Jackson high schools since the closing of University High last spring.

The Missouri Department of Natural Resource's Division of Parks, Recreation and Historic Sites has given the go ahead for construction of the long-delayed Trail of Tears State Park visitors center.

50 years ago: Oct. 28, 1961

Thronging into Cape Girardeau are well over 2,500 Future Homemakers of America; the high school girls from 24 counties in Southeast Missouri are holding a daylong session in Houck Field House at State College.

Paul J. Penczner will return as the featured guest artist of the 15th annual Missourian Art Exhibition Nov. 18 and 19; this is the first time in the history of the show that the featured artist has been invited for a second showing; Penczner was here in 1956.

75 years ago: Oct. 28, 1936

Three women residing in the West End, on or near Sunset Terrace, complained to the city council yesterday that a new sector of Bessie Street, over which they must travel to reach their homes, is muddy and all but impassable; they say a new sanitary sewer system trench runs through the street and that a WPA grading project has added to the trouble there.

The federal government has approved a PWA grant of $22,091 toward construction of a water plant and water system in Fornfelt.

100 years ago: Oct. 28, 1911

Tommy Pool arrives to spend a few days with friends in Cape Girardeau; Pool has been in Nebraska for the past year, working for the Western Union Telegraph Co.

Frank Metz leaves for his home in Oran, Mo., after spending several days here; Metz formerly lived in Cape Girardeau and will probably move back this fall.

-- Sharon K. Sanders