Out of the past 3/3/07

25 years ago: March 3, 1982

Saying it was an idea whose time has come, Cape Girardeau Mayor Howard C. Tooke informed the city council last night he intends to appoint a committee to examine the feasibility of a multipurpose civic facility here.

Cape Girardeau County Court 2nd District Judge J. Ronald Fisher has filed for re-election to a seventh term; the Cape Democrat has served on the court since he was appointed by former governor Warren E. Hearnes in 1968 to fill an unexpired term.

50 years ago: March 3, 1957

In the evening, the Rev. T. Cecil Swackhammer of Webster Hills Methodist Church brings the first message at the annual Preaching Mission at New McKendree Methodist Church in Jackson; these services will continue each evening during the week.

The Advance, Mo., Hornets are champions of the Class M regional basketball tournament; they captured the title last night by defeating the Cape Girardeau Catholic Bulldogs in the final game, 70-48, at Houck Field House.

75 years ago: March 3, 1932

Petitions seeking the paving of Bloomfield Street from a point midway between Sheridan Drive and Albert Street to the western Cape Girardeau city limits are being prepared for circulation among property owners along the proposed project.

Formation of a Marquette Community Garden Club, to permit employees of the Marquette Cement Mfg. Co., to raise vegetables for their own household needs, is announced by the company; to date, 65 employees have applied for tracts of ground ranging upward from a quarter of an acre; the ground set aside for the garden is a 20-acre plot on the company's holdings south of the quarries and on the west side of South Sprigg Street.

100 years ago: March 3, 1907

The Rev. Frank Brinkmeyer, presiding elder of the German Methodist Church of this district, holds quarterly services at the German Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau for the Rev. Theodore Ludwig.

Sim Hosmer and A.D. Walton of Illmo have put in a printing plant and will take up the publication of the Headlight newspaper, which was destroyed by fire a few months ago.

-- Sharon K. Sanders