Out of the past 3/14/12

25 years ago: March 14, 1987

A just-released Missouri Attorney General's office memorandum that says that charter cities and counties don't have the authority to enact local right-to-work ordinances has apparently put an end to any consideration of such a measure here.

Don Riley, a member of the Cape Girardeau Police Department for 17 years, has opened Riley's Locke, Stock and Barrel, 16 S. Frederick St., turning his gunsmithing hobby into a business.

50 years ago: March 14, 1962

Five Cape Girardeau youths, two of them juveniles, have admitted vandalizing at least 50 mailboxes in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties.

About 50 people representing various groups are present in the Jackson courthouse for a hearing on a proposal to establish a Hubble Creek Conservation subdistrict; the subdistrict would serve to curb floodwaters of the creek, which in the past have done substantial damage to farms along its course.

75 years ago: March 14, 1937

Six more classrooms will be added at First Baptist Church to make room for more classes resulting from an increased average Sunday school attendance; the rooms will be constructed with movable wood panel partitions in the ground-floor auditorium.

Members of the 1937 class of confirmands are presented at the morning service at Christ Evangelical Church; members of this year's class are Dorothy Dolle, Della Mae Graden and Brandon Mehrle; those from Salem Evangelical Church are Esther Best, Emma Graden, and Dorothy and Martin Westerhold.

100 years ago: March 14, 1912

Vogelsang Brothers, contractors, begin working in the morning on the McClatchey flat building on North Frederick Street; this will be one of the most modern buildings in the city and will accommodate two families; the firm also has contracts to build a courthouse at Blytheville, Ark., and a bank at Lutesville, Mo.

E.A. Rogers of St. Louis is in Cape Girardeau looking for a location for a first-class clothes cleaning and drying establishment.

-- Sharon K. Sanders