Out of the past 10/30/10

25 years ago: Oct. 30, 1985

Robert C. Briner, director of the Southeast Missouri Regional Crime Laboratory, has been elected to a three-year term ion the board of directors of the 225-member American Society of Crime Lab Directors.

Federal funding for construction of a veterans home in Cape Girardeau County could be released by 1988, U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson is told during a meeting with the administrator for the Veterans Administration in Washington.

50 years ago: Oct. 30, 1960

In celebration of Reformation Sunday, the 443rd anniversary of the Reformed Church of Christ, members and friends of Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church hold their annual Mission Fest; delivering the message is Dr. Richard L. Scheef, professor of New Testament at Eden Seminary in Webster Groves, Mo.

The congregation of the Iona Baptist Church in Oriole holds its first service in its new church building, which has been under construction since May; pastor of the church is the Rev. L.F. Bain.

75 years ago: Oct. 30, 1935

Recalling an experience of last year, city officials aren't advertising property for sale on which city taxes are delinquent; the city spent about $400 last year advertising this type of property and collected only $23 in city taxes.

Southeast Missouri Hospital begins a three-day open house for physicians of the district to demonstrate the new equipment in the x-ray department; all of the old equipment was removed, and the newest type of high-speed x-ray apparatus has been installed.

100 years ago: Oct. 30, 1910

Another of Cape Girardeau's pastors preaches his farewell sermon; the Rev. A.M. Ross of the First Baptist Church has tendered his resignation to his congregation to take up work in another field.

The new Drusch building, at the corner of Pacific Street and Broadway, is rapidly nearing completion; it will be one of the handomest store buildings in Cape Girardeau.

-- Sharon K. Sanders