Out of the past 2/25/09

25 years ago: Feb. 25, 1984

Gross receipts for Cape Girardeau hotel/motel and restaurant taxes totaled more than $27,000 in January, the first month the new taxes have been collected; money raised by the taxes will initially be used to fund a new tourism and convention bureau and ultimately to retire the $5 million multipurpose building bond issue.

Construction could begin in late March on a 1,300-square-foot addition to the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce building, if the chamber board of directors approves the plans at next month's meeting.

50 years ago: Feb. 25, 1959

Plans and specifications for a four-room addition to the new elementary school being constructed in northwest Cape Girardeau were ordered prepared yesterday by the school board; officials said the expansion program is necessary to meet the demands imposed by the extension of the city limits last August and the undiminished pace of new construction in the area.

A large timber wolf, killed Sunday by Ben Buchheit three west of Old Appleton on the Walter Ruppel farm, was brought to Jackson yesterday; Buchheit claimed the $15 bounty.

75 years ago: Feb. 25, 1934

Cantor Pinchas Zhitomirsky, one of the rising stars in the cantorial world and who is on an American tour, conducted services for the local Jewish congregation Friday night at the Community Clubhouse; he has been in America 10 years, coming here from Kiev.

Wintry weather cuts no ice with Leming Hall girls of the Teachers College; eight of them don bathing suits and pose for a chilly photograph on the dormitory lawn; the girls are Lu Vera Green, Toss Stubner, Coleen Harris, Ruth Harper, Dorothy Coil, Mary Lou Fields, Lillian Bowen and Jane Horstman.

100 years ago: Feb. 25, 1909

Bill Barenkamp, the cannonball pitcher, came down from St. Louis last night to visit his parents and friends before leaving Saturday for Houston to join the team there for spring training.

E. Meyer, a businessman of Chaffee, Mo., is seen on Cape Girardeau streets carrying a Winchester rifle; he says he is preparing to protect his family from the wolves that are getting bad again in Chaffee.

-- Sharon K. Sanders