Out of the past 3/26/10

25 years ago: March 26, 1985

Scott City officials receive word from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources that a grant of nearly $400,000 for work on a new sewage treatment system there has been approved.

The sale of a collection of Brazilian gemstones has resulted in a scholarship endowment for home economics students at Southeast Missouri State University; Aleta McDowell Crawford, a Southeast alumna who spent many years as a home economist in Brazil, endowed the scholarship.

50 years ago: March 26, 1960

After 42 years in Cape Girardeau, Wilhelmina L. Vieh will move soon to St. Agnes Home in Kirkwood; Vieh completed 30 years on the State College faculty, as a member of the music department, and has been in semiretirement the past 13 years.

During the night, burglars, in an almost identical performance of February 1958, punch the safe at the Ward's Big Star Super Market, Broadway and U.S. 61, escaping with $200 in cash.

75 years ago: March 26, 1935

A windstorm that later struck at Metropolis, Ill., yesterday afternoon dipped into Ancell, at the north end of Scott County, causing damage estimated at from $1,000 to $1,500; the house of Frank Arnold was damaged the worst.

A Salvation Army worker, Rene Smith, who lives with Capt. and Mrs. Ernest Orchard at the Army building, escaped serious injury last night when she fell 25 feet from the second story of the building and struck the bumper of a parked automobile.

100 years ago: March 26, 1910

An injunction is served on Mayor M.E. Leming just before noon ordering the work stopped in draining the water from a swampy place near the city hall on Frederick Street, which has been an eyesore and a menace to health for many years; the injunction is made returnable Monday, but Leming has ordered the work continued.

Dr. Paul Vasterling, chief surgeon of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Railroad, and family, together with Mrs. W.H. Bartman of Chicago, are visiting A.C. Vasterling in Cape Girardeau.

-- Sharon K. Sanders