Out of the past 4/24/11

25 years ago: April 24, 1986

A proposed landfill site adjacent to the existing Cape Girardeau city landfill appears to have the backing of the city council; county commission members say area residents have come to them with concerns about possible contamination of drinking water from the proposed landfill, but the commissioners say they have no authority in the matter.

Cape Girardeau's recreational ball leagues are being required to purchase $10 vendor's fees and have their concession stands undergo city health inspections before they can open for business this year.

50 years ago: April 24, 1961

Departmental sessions as such will be abandoned at next year's meeting of the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association and a series of workshops will be instituted in their place; the departure from a custom of long standing was agreed upon Saturday at a meeting of the association's executive committee with its officers.

Expenditures for operation of Cape Girardeau's public schools next year are expected to rise slightly to a total of $1,595,123 in a 1961-1962 budget adopted by the school board; the increase is $9,310.79.

75 years ago: April 24, 1936

With every seat full and women standing in the foyer and the aisles, The Missourian's 10th annual cooking school draws a record crowd to its closing session in the afternoon at the Fox Broadway Theater.

C.C. Summers, appointed Cape Girardeau city health officer to succeed Lee Slagle, officially takes over his duties, the office remaining at the police-fire department building.

100 years ago: April 24, 1911

One of the most important realty transactions in Cape Girardeau in many months was announced Saturday; the property on Main Street recently vacated by the Juden Mercantile Co. was sold to the Caldwell-Sherman Co.; this property extends from Main to Spanish Street and is divided by a narrow alley; the part facing on Spanish was sold to the Lead Belt Motor Co.

John Laidlaw, the superintendent of the Cape Girardeau School District, tenders his resignation, to take effect May 1; Laidlaw has been offered a position with a large book-publishing company.

-- Sharon K. Sanders