Out of the past 2/27/12

25 years ago: Feb. 27, 1987

Comedian Pat Paulsen, who was the featured attraction at the First Exchange Corporation's annual stockholders dinner last night at Jackson, said he would probably run for president again in 1988.

A committee studying a proposed recreational lake for Cape Girardeau County is focusing its efforts on two possible sites; one is near Millersville on Whitewater River, running north and east of Highway 72, while the other is on Little Whitewater River, running west and south of Highway 72.

50 years ago: Feb. 27, 1962

Turbulent weather threatens to join the ice and sleet sweeping through much of Southeast Missouri; weather forecasters are calling for a heavy glaze and hazardous driving warnings this afternoon, as well as locally damaging winds, the possibility of hail and severe thunderstorms.

A fire which isn't reported until after it is well entrenched causes damage to the walls and ceilings at the rear of the Broadway Recreation Center, 433 Broadway, in the evening.

75 years ago: Feb. 27, 1937

From helping shovel gravel to participating in a special city council meeting, Cape Girardeau Boy Scouts do their bit toward running the city; the scouts, proving they are willing and capable, are assigned just about every sort of municipal chore there is as they run the town for the day.

Anthony Day reports he has sold his refreshment and beer establishment at 409 Good Hope St., to Lester Rhodes, who has taken charge; Day says he will go into another type of business shortly.

100 years ago: Feb. 27, 1912

Frank Harnes and Willard Fischer have resigned their positions with the Roberts, Johnson and Rand shoe factory here and will leave tomorrow for St. Louis.

The wood block paving on Water Street is complete, and the granite block paving on the levee front has also been finished; when the river opens up for navigation, the steamboats will find the most beautiful riverfront and the best landing facilities at Cape Girardeau of any town on the Mississippi.

-- Sharon K. Sanders