Out of the past 3/7/05

25 years ago: March 7, 1980

Cape Girardeau County Associate Judge J. Ronald Fischer, who has served on the county court for about a decade, has filed for re-election to his sixth term; Fischer, a Cape Girardeau Democrat, has served as a county judge since 1968, when he was appointed by then governor Warren E. Hearnes to fill a vacancy on the court.

Cape Girardeau County voters may be casting their ballots with a punch card voting system in this year's August primary as a result of recent efforts by county officials, who are studying the possibility of acquiring a punch-card system.

50 years ago: March 7, 1955

Mayor Narvol A. Randol announces a 12-member committee to make a detailed study to see if a need exists for a city charter for Cape Girardeau and to recommend its findings to the city council for action.

LILBOURN, Mo. -- A land deal said to amount to nearly $2 million was completed last week when Paul B. Crouthers of near Catron, Mo., sold some 6,000 acres of land and the property on the acreage; the buyer was Mortgage Investment Co.; there are about 150 or 200 people living on the farms which were sold.

75 years ago: March 7, 1930

With 14 candidates in the race to fill three city jobs, indications are there will be no last-minute entries before the bars drop this evening for those who expect to compete for places during the coming primary in Cape Girardeau March 18.

A remonstrance is filed by property owners to the paving of Perry Avenue from Broadway to the north line of St. Mary's Cemetery, a distance of 3,000 feet.

100 years ago: March 7, 1905

Petitions are being circulated in the different wards for endorsement of the "People's Ticket"; making up the ticket are Merit E. Leming for mayor, Willis Martin for marshal, R.B. Oliver for city attorney, Rudolph Bahn for police judge, William W. Willer for assessor, Gustav Schultz for collector, William C. Bergmann for treasurer, and for aldermen Robert G. Ranney, A.R. Ponder, Thomas M. Williams and Theodore Boyce.

There is going to be a first-class ice cream parlor in the west end of town; Meyer Brothers' bakery at Broadway and Sprigg has been sold to Edward E. Dowling and E.H. Burr, proprietor of the Terminal Hotel, who will run a first-class candy kitchen and ice cream soda plant.

-- Sharon K. Sanders