Out of the past 4/18/11

25 years ago: April 18, 1986

The St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad's steam-powered tourist passenger trade makes its inaugural run; U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson is on hand for dedication ceremonies.

John R. Camp of the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer and St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and a Southeast Missourian reporter from November 1968 to January 1970, was named a winner of a Pulitzer Prize Thursday in the category of feature writing.

50 years ago: April 18, 1961

A study of unit costs for the proposed 220-unit housing development in Cape Girardeau, submitted yesterday to the Public Housing Authority, shows the expenses will amount to $24.50 per month; rents would be in excess of this minimum and amounts would depend on the number of people in a family, the number of rooms occupied and income limits as they finally are determined.

Excavation has been completed and forms are being built preparatory to pouring concrete for a new $50,740 swimming pool at Camp Lewallen; the pool will be 40 feet by 100 feet.

75 years ago: April 18, 1936

Carl Meyer, a local baseball pitcher who recently returned from the spring training camp at Springfield, Mo., a farm team of the St. Louis Cardinals, has been ordered to report to the Monette, Mo., club of the Arkansas-Missouri League next week.

Plans and specifications are delivered to contractors interested in bidding on a two-story annex to the Farmers and Merchants Bank building at Sprigg and Good Hope streets; the annex, designed by architect A.F. Lindsay, will be built on the west side of the present structure.

100 years ago: April 18, 1911

Next Tuesday is the date set for the special election in Cape Girardeau for the purpose of voting on $20,000 in bonds for constructing a new schoolhouse in the northeast part of the city; there is no doubt the proposition will carry at the special election, as it lacked only a few votes of having the necessary two-thirds majority when voted on at the recent school election.

Money raised at this evening's ball at the Elks Club rooms, given by the ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolution, will benefit the Louis Lorimier monument fund.

-- Sharon K. Sanders