Out of the past 2/3/12

25 years ago: Feb. 3, 1987

The Minneapolis firm of Seitz, Yamamoto and Moss Inc., which specializes in designing marketable names, has been hired to work with a special committee that will select a name for Cape Girardeau's multipurpose building; members of the committee are David Barklage, Peter HIlty, Anne Bradshaw and Pat Tlapek.

Workers with Rely Electric are wiring up old-fashioned streetlights in downtown Cape Girardeau; the lights are part of redevelopment efforts that stress the 19th-century architecture of riverfront buildings.

50 years ago: Feb. 3, 1962

The Exchange Club announces the dredging of Capaha Park lagoon to deepen it and improve it for fishing for Cape Girardeau youngsters will start Monday, weather permitting; it is planned to dig a deep channel at one side of the lagoon; fish will then be driven into the channel and remain there during the dredging and repairing of the lagoon banks.

A record 2,802 students were counted at State College as regular enrollment for the second semester ended yesterday; however, officials say late registration will push that total past the 2,900 mark.

75 years ago: Feb. 3, 1937

NEW MADRID, Mo. -- Recovery of the bodies of 10 more levee workers drowned when they plunged into the icy waters of the floodway Saturday night when their barge sank brings the list of dead to 15; the list of the missing has been reduced to 13; meanwhile, many citizens from throughout Southeast Missouri are demanding an investigation into the sinking of the barge.

All along the Mississippi River front in Southeast Missouri, from Cairo, Ill., downstream, the river is rising slightly again; but observers say there is no cause to fear the rise, as it presages the coming crest tonight, tomorrow or Friday.

100 years ago: Feb. 3, 1912

Two vacant lots in the west end belonging to the Cape Girardeau public schools, having been donated for school purposes by city founder Louis Lorimier, will be converted from cow pastures into a beautiful park place.

Richard M. Shepherd of Glenlock, N.J., a graduate of the Williamson Trade School in Philadelphia, has taken a position in the office of Walter S. Slifer, architect and building supervisor.

-- Sharon K. Sanders