Out of the past 2/25/07

25 years ago: Feb. 25, 1982

A number of teachers and students at Cape Girardeau Central and Junior High schools are wearing black arm bands protesting the dismissal of some teachers, although the administration says none have been fired; it is rumored five or six non-tenured teachers have been told they won't have jobs next year.

A proposed $125 per year increase in room and board costs at Southeast Missouri State University, being voted on today by regents, is meeting little student opposition.

50 years ago: Feb. 25, 1957

Layout of the new science group at State College is described by college officials; the science unit, with a music building and women's physical education building, will form a triangle, the center of which will be the wooded area north of the present campus known as Home of the Birds.

The proposed Broadway storm sewer is shelved indefinitely by the Cape Girardeau City Council in the face of a delegation in opposition and a 133-name petition asking that other property be included in the district.

75 years ago: Feb. 25, 1932

A request that the money derived from the sale of city automobile license plates be diverted into an emergency relief fund to be used in giving work to unemployed men was made to the Cape Girardeau City Council yesterday.

Work will begin soon on remodeling the first floor of the Main Street exposure of the old Sturdivant Bank building, at Main and Themis streets in Cape Girardeau, into quarters for a women's ready-to-wear store; the location has been leased for five years by M. Samuels.

100 years ago: Feb. 25, 1907

The three commissioners appointed to set a price on the Ruesskamp and Rodney property at Broadway and Fountain Street in Cape Girardeau meet at the courthouse and hear testimony produced by the attorneys for the owners; the federal government wants to acquire the land for construction of a federal building.

Joe Juden of Poplar Bluff, Mo., came to Cape Girardeau Saturday evening and leaves for St. Louis this afternoon; Juden is closing his store at Bluff and will move to Cape Girardeau to give the store here all his attention.

-- Sharon K. Sanders