Out of the past 3/14/11

25 years ago: March 14, 1986

Eighth District U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson, in a news conference in Cape Girardeau, announces he will seek re-election to a fourth term in the House of Representatives.

Southeast Missouri educators are in Cape Girardeau for the 110th annual session of the Southeast Missouri District Teachers Association; the morning general session at Houck Field House includes a keynote address by former Miss America Marilyn Van Derbur.

50 years ago: March 14, 1961

Law enforcement authorities are concentrating their search for the fugitive gunman who battled Cape Girardeau police officers Friday night in the Castor River area; in the shooting, auxiliary policeman Herbert Goss was killed and patrolman Donald Crittendon was seriously wounded; shortly afterward, during a chase, Wayne County Sheriff Elmer Chatman was also wounded by gunfire coming from the fugitives' car.

Meeting in the morning in the Marquette Hotel banquet room, members of the 53rd annual convention of the Southeast Missouri Retail Lumber Dealers Association hold a brief business session and hear a clinic on home modernizing.

75 years ago: March 14, 1936

One hundred and nine persons attended a testimonial dinner last night given by the Jackson Chamber of Commerce at the dining room of the Masonic Temple, honoring the golden jubilee of Fred E. Kies as editor of the Cape County Post.

Twenty-two candidates will be in the race for nomination for mayor and the three commissioners' posts when the municipal primary election is held here March 24; four of the candidates will vie for the mayoral nomination and 18 for commissioner.

100 years ago: March 14, 1911

Hugo Pfeister, one of Cape Girardeau's leading contractors, has introduced new machinery for the making of screens, doors and frames, and also all mill work for brick or frame houses, at his place at 1005 Good Hope St.

Will Stein, the Cape Girardeau boy whose term of enlistment in the Navy expired in December and whose family expected him home, has sent word home that he has re-enlisted; he is serving on the torpedo destroyer USS Stewart at San Diego.

-- Sharon K. Sanders