Out of the past 3/9/07

25 years ago: March 9, 1982

Echoing the views of area farmers, the Cape Girardeau County Planning Commission has advised the County Court to exempt farm structures from any building permit program.

Melvin Gately, who has been an educator 33 years, will be honored for Meritorious Service to Education at the 106th annual meeting of the Southeast Missouri District Teachers Association Friday; Gately is the principal of Louis J. Schultz School in Cape Girardeau.

50 years ago: March 9, 1957

A new source of electric power was put into operation yesterday with the completion of final tests on the 138,000-volt transmission line into Cape Girardeau; the 72-mile line of Union Electric Co. from near Flat River, Mo., to the Viaduct substation of Missouri Utilities Co., provides a source of power for any size industry or for any emergency which might arise.

Installation of a new gutter on the Common Pleas Courthouse has been started by the Friedrich Sheet Metal Co., of Jackson; two old gutters, one inside the other, and both inside the original built-in guttering, were found when work began.

75 years ago: March 9, 1932

While scores of men throughout Cape Girardeau County are begging for work, $272,000 is in the road fund at Jefferson City waiting to be used on secondary roads in this county; and the farm-to-market fund has a balance of $89,000 waiting for action.

Work is rapidly progressing on the remodeling of the Haman Funeral Home, 108 S. Sprigg St., in Cape Girardeau; a portion of the front porch is being enclosed to be used as an office and sun parlor; the northeast end of the rear of the building is also being closed and will be used as the morgue.

100 years ago: March 9, 1907

Much anxiety is caused the family of Louis Krueger, the Broadway hardware merchant, by his unexplained absence from Cape Girardeau; he disappeared two days ago.

On Thursday, Theodore Bauerle and the Nenninger Bros., butchers, bought the Beaudean place on Good Hope Street; the old dwelling there will be torn down, and a modern, double business house erected, three stories high for Bauerle and two stories for the Nenningers.

-- Sharon K. Sanders