Out of the past 4/11/05

25 years ago: April 11, 1980

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Secretary of State James Kirkpatrick says he won't put former Southeast Missouri Circuit Judge Lloyd Briggs on next August's primary election ballot; he made the decision on the recommendation of state Attorney General John Ashcroft.

Although only in a preliminary stage, Southeast Missouri Hospital officials make public plans for the construction of a new east wing to the medical facility as part of the hospital's capital improvements program for the 1980s.

50 years ago: April 11, 1955

Final working drawings and specifications have been completed, and bids will be taken within the next few days for the new building for the First National Bank, which will be built at the northwest corner of Main Street and Broadway.

75 years ago: April 11, 1930

Charles E. Kennamer formally resigns as a member of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department, effective April 15; Kennamer, the youngest member of the force of four men, had been with the department two years; members of the force are appointed by the mayor, subject to ratification by the city council.

Fire originating in the garage and spreading quickly to the house virtually destroys the two-story residence occupied by Professor and Mrs. J.C. Brandt, 490 N. Pacific St., causing damage estimated at $10,000.

100 years ago: April 11, 1905

Emil Pott has just returned from a meeting of the International Slack Cooperage Stock Manufacturers' Association at Memphis, Tenn.

Harden & Stafford, who have been conducting the Diamond Cafe on Main Street for several months, have met with such success that they plan to open the finest restaurant in the region; they have leased the building just north of the Sturdivant Bank and next week will put in fixtures that will cost in the neighborhood of $1,000.

-- Sharon K. Sanders