Out of the past 3/28/07

25 years ago: March 28, 1982

The Rev. M.W. DeWitt, pastor of the Ellis Street Church of God in Cape Gir-ardeau, is honored by his congregation as part of Pastor Recognition Sunday; DeWitt has served the local congregation since 1981.

Margie Huber of Cape Girardeau was named Laywoman of the Year during the regional meeting of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women at Cape Girardeau; Huber is a member of St. Mary's Cathedral Parish Council.

50 years ago: March 28, 1957

Cape Girardeau's Lions Club served 3,065 people at its annual Pancake Day yesterday; in making the 9,195 pancakes, the Lions used 480 pounds of pancake flour, 45 pounds of shortening, and 100 gallons of skimmed milk.

Missouri Gov. James T. Blair Jr., while making a brief stop in Cape Girardeau before traveling to Sikeston, Mo., says the legislature has given him "tremendous help" and is "going along with the things the state needs" to make his first few months in office most fruitful; Blair, accompanied by Sen. Albert M. Spradling Jr., will speak at the Missouri Cotton Producers Association annual meeting.

75 years ago: March 28, 1932

Employed by residents of the Bloomfield Road-Highway 61 community, a group of men is busy removing rubbish from near those highways and near the new bridge over Cape LaCroix Creek; residents are cooperating with the Cape Special Road District in cleaning up the roadside and in planting shrubbery.

Senior Glen Sadler, son of Dr. and Mrs. D.F. Sadler of Cape Girardeau, breaks his arm above the wrist, when a ladder on which he is standing while assisting in decorating the Central High School auditorium, falls with him.

100 years ago: March 28, 1907

WITTENBURG, Mo.-- Wittenburg, the small station on the Frisco Railroad and the river in Perry County, is visited by a destructive fire early in the morning; the fine residence of G.J. Blechle is destroyed, as is the general merchandise store of W.W. Mattingly & Co.

J.A. McNally, who formerly lived in Cape Girardeau, has returned to take charge of the stone work on the new trust building; the famous Cape Girar- deau "marble" is to be used in trimming the big building.

-- Sharon K. Sanders