Out of the past 4/10/07

25 years ago: April 10, 1982

Saying Missouri Sen. John C. Danforth is "out of touch with the average Missouri family and its needs," Democratic challenger Burleigh Arnold attacked the incumbent's voting record during a swing through Cape Girardeau yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. Don Owen of Cape Girardeau have been named to the board of regents of Southwest Baptist University at Bolivar, Mo.; they will serve a three-year term which began April 1.

50 years ago: April 10, 1957

Acquisition of a site for the new St. Andrew Lutheran Church is announced by Luther Hahs, temporary chairman of the congregation; the four-acre tract secured fronts 416 feet on Kingsway and is just north of the Alvarado; the lot was acquired from Freeman Lewis and T.R. Regenhardt.

Ervin Hobbs of Randol Township in County Court District No. 1 and E.W. Seiler of Liberty Township in District No. 2 were elected members of the Cape Girardeau County Board of Education yesterday.

75 years ago: April 10, 1932

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Floyd Widdows, 45, farmer of near Sikeston, Mo. is instantly killed in the afternoon when he becomes confused and runs into the path of an airplane that crashes during a takeoff from the Dan McCoy Farm, one and a half miles west of here.

Dr. J.W. Berry, who now has an office in the Hotel Marquette Building, and Dr. J.J. Drace, ear, eye, nose and throat specialist formerly of Springfield, Mo., have leased a room in the Surety Savings & Loan Building, 322 Broadway in Cape Girardeau, and will occupy it within three weeks.

100 years ago: April 10, 1907

Cape Girardeau is a new city today; one can feel it in the air; it comes from the new mayor, Dr. W.C. Patton, who took over that high office last night and commenced doing the city's business.

When the trustees of the Methodist and Christian congregations affix their signatures to a deed, the church at the corner of Sprigg and Themis streets in Cape Girardeau, which had been the home of the Methodists for many years, passes over to the ownership of the Christian Church.

-- Sharon K. Sanders