Out of the past 3/6/12

25 years ago: March 6, 1987

Speaking at the annual Cape Girardeau County Lincoln Day observance last night, Missouri Gov. John Ashcroft called on Republicans to follow the example of leadership set by Abraham Lincoln.

AMARILLO, Texas -- Derick Turner sank a last-second shot that propelled the Southeast Missouri State University Indians into the championship game of the South Central Regional Basketball Tournament; the Indians trimmed West Texas 72-71 to advance and will face Delta State University tonight.

50 years ago: March 6, 1962

Plans are being made for the annual Clean-up, Paint-up, Fix-up campaign in May; while the city street department will pick up trash from residents, the Chamber of Commerce hopes to plant 25,000 rosebushes.

Workers begin razing the former Montgomery Ward tire shop at the intersection of Independence and Water streets as the first step in a half-million-dollar expansion and remodeling program for the department store.

75 years ago: March 6, 1937

Clarence Brown and Web Greer, proving their hunting prowess, lug to the Southeast Missourian office a snarling, 32-pound bobcat and an angry, snapping red-tailed hawk; the hunters capture the animals alive while hunting in the woods between Dutchtown and Delta; Brown plans to make a pet of the cat, if it's amenable.

About five feet of brick, which had been cracked, is being replaced by Joe Warner at the top of the 30-foot smokestack at the Knaup Floral Co., 136 S. Pacific St.; the stack has been there since 1908, and this is the first work done on it since that time.

100 years ago: March 6, 1912

The stockholders and officers of the London Manufacturing Co. met recently at Jackson and incorporated their business for $30,000; J.A. Berry of Glenallen, Mo., was made president, J.G. Kies vice president, and A.F. Williams secretary and treasurer; this company will manufacture "kodaks" and will have their factory in the Wessell building at Jackson.

Mr. and Mrs. M.E. Leming and little daughter, Frances, return home from Texas, where Mr. Leming is engaged in railroad building and where Mrs. Leming had been visiting; Miss Rose Leming doesn't accompany them home but will finish the winter down there.

-- Sharon K. Sanders