Out of the past 2/8/10

25 years ago: Feb. 8, 1985

Cape Girardeau is still in the running for the General Motors Corp. Saturn plant; local proposals from 12 Missouri communities -- including Cape Girardeau -- have been accepted by the state's top economic development directors and will be presented to GM officials later this month.

Charles Hoppe, 57, a long-time professional engineer, has been named a building inspector for the city of Cape Girardeau; Hoppe has been employed in the city's engineering department since last September.

50 years ago: Feb. 8, 1960

A letter from the Firefighters Union Local No. 1084 is filed with the Cape Girardeau City Council, asking for a pay raise and other conditions.

An increased volume of business demanding more time and attention causes the Cape Girardeau Board of Education to establish a second regularly scheduled meeting each month; it is set for the third Tuesday following the second Monday meetings.

75 years ago: Feb. 8, 1935

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- A mass movement of tenants off farms in Stoddard County is expected to be underway next week, thereby bring up a relief and housing problem that may require government aid; in one "putsch," 65 persons, all but five of them blacks, will be moved off a large farm owned by an insurance company.

Work has started on the remodeling of a two-story, eight-room house at 832 North St., formerly occupied by the Charles G. Wilson family; old sliding doors are being replaced by arches, the fireplaces are being refinished, and new oak floors installed.

100 years ago: Feb. 8, 1910

Broadway is apparently doomed to remain a street of mud; the Cape Girardeau City Council was stopped in its work of paving that thoroughfare from Middle to Pacific streets by a remonstrance presented last night.

J.G. Kies is offering a $5 reward for the apprehension of the vandals who destroyed the steel parts of the telephone in the hose house in Jackson; on several occasions the fire alarm was sounded, but the telephone wouldn't work.

-- Sharon K. Sanders