Out of the past

25 years ago: June 7, 1983

After placing a telephone call to Cape Girardeau lawyer Stephen N. Limbaugh yesterday morning, President Ronald Reagan officially nominated him to fill a federal court judgeship in the Eastern District of Missouri.

A monument has been placed at the County Farm Park as a memorial for people who died at the county's poor farm; there are no exact records of how many are buried at the Potter's Field at the park; some estimates are as high as 700.

50 years ago: June 7, 1958

Delmar L. Parsons, son of Mr. and Mrs. William T. Parsons of Perryville, Mo., will graduate Monday from the University of Tennessee Medical Unit in Memphis with a doctor of medicine degree.

Today proves to be the busiest day of the week for the mobile X-ray unit, when 612 chest pictures are taken while the unit is parked near the courthouse in Jackson; this brings the total X-rays made during the week to 2,567.

75 years ago: June 7, 1933

The announcement that St. Vincent's College, for 103 years a preparatory school in Cape Girardeau, would be moved from this city comes as a surprise to Girardeans, and largely so to college officials; according to the announcement, made at Waukegan, Ill., the college will move to the shore of Lake Michigan at the northern tip of Illinois.

Joel T. Nunn, 83, a pioneer of Cape Girardeau County, died at the home of his son, Robert G. Nunn, at Terre Haute, Ind., yesterday; for many years he was employed at the old Albert Grocer Co. in Cape Girardeau; later he was director and then president of the Cape Girardeau Building & Loan Association.

100 years ago: June 7, 1908

Mrs. Dr. G.T. Smith lectured on Japan last night at the Christian Church; she spent five years there and has studied the people and the country extensively.

Committees have been named to look into the matter of moving the old courthouse at Jackson to some nearby lot, where it would be used as a city hall and fire house; Judge William B. Schaefer estimates that the cost of buying a lot, constructing a foundation, moving the old structure and remodeling it would add up to about $7,500, not including the price of the building itself.

-- Sharon K. Sanders