Out of the past 2/11/11

25 years ago: Feb. 11, 1986

The Farmers Home Administration is threatening to foreclose on five Cape Girardeau County farmers, who are among 20 county borrowers who are seriously delinquent in making loan payments, now that a federal judge's nationwide moratorium against FmHA foreclosures has been lifted; of the 20 county farmers who are more than a year behind in their loan payments, nine are in bankruptcy.

Cape Girardeau school superintendent Dr. Arthur H. Turner has been given a new three-year contract by the Cape Girardeau School Board.

50 years ago: Feb. 11, 1961

A telephone extension system that includes all four State College residence halls -- Dearmont, Leming, Myers and Cheney -- is being installed; a switchboard had been serving Dearmont for some time, but the men's dorms were serviced only by pay telephone booths; Leming Hall women had put in their own private phones.

A bill introduced in the Missouri Legislature by Rep. George J. Germain of Scott City would exempt motorists from paying sales tax on the trade-in value of a used car.

75 years ago: Feb. 11, 1936

Dr. A.G. Juden will open offices at 118 Independence St. in about two weeks, where he will practice general medicine; Juden recently returned from Europe, where he spent four months in further study of nose and throat ailments and obstetrics; prior to that, he spent three years in Peru as a resident physician for Standard Oil Co.

BENTON, Mo. -- Three prisoners, including a 24-year-old Cape Girardeau man under death sentence for murder, overpower a deputy sheriff at the Scott County jail and escape.

100 years ago: Feb. 11, 1911

Because he doesn't like living alone in St. Louis, U.S. Marshal E.F. Regenhardt has decided to move his family to that city; a deputy marshal, E.E. Whitworth, will have charge of the Southeast Missouri part of the district.

George Wilson of St. Louis has arrived in Cape Girardeau to take charge of the well-drilling work at the Morrison Ice plant, until his brother, A.H. Wilson, recovers from injuries he sustained several days ago when a piece of machinery fell on his head.

-- Sharon K. Sanders