Out of the Past 11/24/06

25 years ago: Nov. 24, 1981

Two more city council hopefuls filed their candidacy petitions yesterday, bringing the number of candidates in Cape Girardeau's April 6 election to nine; latest to file were Robert E. Jones and Kathryn E. Braasch.

Mary C. Kasten, a member of both the Cape Girardeau Board of Education and the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents, announces plans to seek the 156th District state legislative seat, which represents most of Cape Girardeau.

50 years ago: Nov. 24, 1956

Construction on the third phase of the North Main Street levee -- preparation of the foundation for an earthen levee to extend from the shoe factory to Bellevue Street -- is expected to be put underway Monday.

The former steamer Cape Girardeau is to get a new name and home; two Memphis businessmen, joined by others in Florida, have purchased the boat for $55,000 and will tow it to the Gulf of Mexico, where it will be tied up in the Sarasota-Venice area in Florida and be made into a river museum; the new name of the boat is the Gordon C. Greene.

75 years ago: Nov. 24, 1931

Missouri's new highway patrol comes to Southeast Missouri; under the command of Capt. Albert D. Sheppard, eight additional men arrive at Sikeston, Mo., at noon from Jefferson City; trooper Charles Pearson has been assigned to Cape Girar¿deau and will make his headquarters here.

The Cape Special Road District, under the direction of engineer D.M. Scivally, will move an entire cemetery and restore it a half-mile away to provide for further construction of the farm-to-market road between Dutchtown and Allenville; Walter Groves has given consent for removal of the bodies of seven members of his family from a small plot on the Henry Brunke farm near Allenville.

100 years ago: Nov. 24, 1906

The stockholders of the Southeast Missouri Trust Co. in Cape Girardeau increase the number of directors from seven to 15; the new directors are W.W. Ward, H.P. Peironnet, John Tlapek, S.B. Hunter, Dr. C.M. Witmer, E.J. Deal, D.B. Pankey and James McPheeters.

F.A. Kage now has his shingle out as a justice of the peace; his office is on Broadway in Cape Girardeau.

-- Sharon K. Sanders