Out of the past 3/4/07

@sco:25 years ago: March 4, 1982

Final arrangements were completed yesterday for the acquisition of the 125-year-old Reynolds House, 623 N. Main St. in Cape Girardeau, by the Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau; the house will be renovated in much the same fashion as the Glenn House has been.

Businessmen and Chamber of Commerce officials of Jackson will try to derail the possible elimination of rail service to Jackson when they meet next week in St. Louis with Missouri Pacific Railroad officials; Mo-Pac wants to abandon the line between Delta and Jackson.

@sco:50 years ago: March 4, 1957

Charles E. Stiver and John Martin have filed for seats on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education; terms of Mrs. H.B. Newman and Oliver A. Hope are expiring; Newman is expected to run for re-election, while Hope has said he won't be a candidate.

WASHINGTON -- President Eisenhower nominates 172 postmasters; among the nominations sent to the Senate is that of Theodore R. Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau.

@sco:75 years ago: March 4, 1932

Beginning a reconstruction program on 20 miles of track along the main line between East St. Louis and Gorham, Ill., the Missouri Pacific Railroad has called back 300 workers, including an extra gang of about 30 men from Cape Girardeau.

COMMERCE, Mo. -- Fire, believed to have originated from a defective flue in the Ireland store building at 9 last night, destroyed that structure, the Frazier building adjacent and threatened a third.

@sco:100 years ago: March 4, 1907

Quick action by night watchman Jack Adkins saves Cape Girardeau from a disastrous conflagration shortly after midnight; while making his rounds, he discovers a fire in the rear of the O.K. barber shop; he quickly notifies the night clerk at the St. Charles Hotel, who in turn arouses the guests and leads them to safety; the night porter of the hotel extinguishes the small blaze before it has a chance to spread to the hotel.

Paul Fiehler, the expert blacksmith who came to Cape Girardeau some time ago from New Wells, has decided to embark in the business at Gordonville.

-- Sharon K. Sanders