Out of the past 10/6/07

25 years ago: Oct. 6, 1982

The Cape Girardeau County Court has endorsed Proposition B which, if approved by voters, would increase Missouri's motor fuel tax by four cents and increase license fees; the additional revenue would be used for repair and improvement of state roads and bridges.

Motion-sensing devices have been installed in the Kent Library ceiling, devices which turn the lights on when someone is present, leave them on for a few minutes, and turn them off again when they no longer sense motion.

50 years ago: Oct. 6, 1957

Rally Day is observed at First Church of God in Cape Girardeau; guest speaker is Ellen High of St. Louis, who is home on furlough from her missionary duties in India; she has been a missionary in that country since 1937.

The first worship service of the new St. Andrew Lutheran Church is held in the afternoon at the church property on Kingsway Drive; about 650 people attend the service, including members of the new church and a number from Trinity and churches throughout the district.

75 years ago: Oct. 5, 1932

Fred A. Kage, 84, former mayor of Cape Girardeau and county sheriff and for 63 years an officeholder in this county, dies in the morning after being bedfast for nearly two years as the result of a stroke of paralysis.

A 10-year lease on a 200-acre tract of land belonging to Barrett Cotner, two miles south of the Cape Girardeau city limits on Highway 74, was signed yesterday by American Airways Inc. of St. Louis to construct an intermediary airmail and public airport.

100 years ago: Oct. 6, 1907

The congregation of the German Methodist Episcopal Church received good news this week; the Rev. Theodore Ludwig was returned by the conference of his church to his Cape Girardeau home.

Work on the new county courthouse in Jackson is being hastened; a force of between 25 and 30 men are working, more than at any time since construction commenced; the basement has been completed and much done in the first story; the work of laying the tile roof has begun.

-- Sharon K. Sanders