Out of the past 4/23/12

25 years ago: April 23, 1987

Scott City officials say they will pay the bill to correct a mistake made 47 years ago when the former city of Fornfelt incorrectly installed a sanitary sewer line; the city will replace a 900-foot section of sewer line in the alley between Perkins and Good Hope streets.

Amy Rehnstrom, a graduate student in Southeast Missouri State University's biology department, has been selected as one of only 10 students across the nation to attend the FBI academy this summer.

50 years ago: April 23, 1962

W. Hinkle Staler, elected in 1940 at age 30 to become Cape Girardeau's youngest mayor, dies at a local hospital; he is survived by his wife, the former Miss Catherine Schmuke; four daughters; and a brother.

Dedication ceremonies for the Princess Otahki memorial in Trail of Tears State Park have been set for May 27, with representatives of the Cherokee Nation to be invited as guests; work on the memorial, which includes a canopy over the grave of the princess and stonework about it, has been completed except for a walk leading to Moccasin Springs Road.

75 years ago: April 23, 1937

Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. announces plans to build a swimming pool and building, which employees may use free of charge, as a gift from W. Woodbridge Dickinson, a director and first vice president of the company; the natatorium will be built on the site of the old Marquette School.

Four acres of land on U.S. 61 were sold yesterday by Louis Schlueter to Lee James; the trangular-shaped plot is between U.S. 61 and the old Jackson Road, across from the point Hopper Road leaves U.S. 61; James plans to arrange an auto trailer camp on part of the ground and build a small commissary.

100 years ago: April 23, 1912

Dave "Duck" Piercefield, for three years the porter at the Commercial barber shop, and without a doubt the best and most popular porter ever employed in Cape Girardeau, resigns his position and goes to Jacksonville, Ill.; he will take an interest in a pool room and restaurant.

Philip Spiegel, the tailor at the Buckner-Ragsdale Store, left yesterday for Syracuse, N.Y., where he will visit his brother and participate in a big wedding; he and his brother then plan to sail for Germany, where they will visit their old home.

-- Sharon K. Sanders