Out of the past 2/27/09

25 years ago: Feb. 27, 1984

Winter weather returns to Cape Girardeau and the area with a vengeance in the morning, dumping 6 inches of wet snow here and whipping it with 30 mph winds; all schools in the area are closed, including Southeast Missouri State University; the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport is also shut down; snow is expected to continue falling throughout the day.

Forty-two boys who received Boy Scouting's highest award during 1983 were honored yesterday at the 23rd annual Southeast Missouri Council Eagle Scout Court of Honor.

50 years ago: Feb. 27, 1959

State College president Mark F. Scully receives a letter from William Zalken, manager of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, offering a free concert for Southeast Missouri children next season; he expressed regret that the planned children's concert Tuesday at Houck Field House had to be canceled.

A few days of good weather this week enabled Ray Clinton Construction Co. of Sikeston, Mo., to pave additional stretches of the runway at the municipal airport; the outside strips of the runway, 2,000 feet long, have been paved and forms are being set for part of the inside six strips of concrete.

75 years ago: Feb. 27, 1934

The coldest weather of the winter season grips Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri as the mercury sinks to near zero in the fourth day of the present cold wave; although still covered with ice at several points, roads in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois are in better condition for travel.

At a meeting of the Cape County Bar Association, A.M. Spradling suggests that bar meetings are often too dry and dignified; it is decided a good-time gathering ­-- a "whoopee party" ­-- will be held soon; Rush H. Limbaugh supplies the descriptive word.

100 years ago: Feb. 27, 1909

C.W. Stehr, H.A. Nussbaum and J.A. Kinder returned from Lilbourn, Mo., on the afternoon train yesterday, where they went to hunt ducks; they returned with 103 birds and say they could have gotten more.

John Hardy of Hornersville, Mo., is in Cape Girardeau looking for a location to open a fish market for the wholesale and retail of fresh fish.

-- Sharon K. Sanders