Out of the past 4/25/07

25 years ago: April 25, 1982

First Assembly of God congregation in Cape Girardeau holds a celebration honoring the second anniversary of its pastor and family, the Rev. and Mrs. K.C. Grams.

The doors of the new $2 million Trinity Lutheran Church opened yesterday afternoon to a large crowd for the first service there; formal dedication of the church, situated on the site of the old edifice, is planned for May 2.

50 years ago: April 25, 1957

A howling, jeering crowd of State College boys, estimated by police to number at least 250, early in the morning tears window screens off two rooms in Albert and Leming halls, women's dormitories, then hoot for almost three hours at some 75 police officers who surround the area; the near riot comes to an end quietly, when president Mark F. Scully talks to the boys and tells them to go to their rooms.

This morning's disturbance at the State College campus recalls another student outburst in 1921; on that occasion some of the students, objecting to the fact that the board of regents failed to re-elect Dr. W.S. Dearmont as college president, wired the doors to buildings with bailing wire, hanged members of the board in effigy and declared a one-day holiday.

75 years ago: April 25, 1932

More than 400 Masons from every part of Missouri are in Cape Girardeau for the first sessions of their annual three-day convention.

A city permit is issued to Louis Hecht for alterations at his garage building south of Independence Street on Spanish Street in Cape Girardeau; the garage will be changed so as to be used as both a garage and automobile filling station.

100 years ago: April 25, 1907

At last, actual building work has started on the new shoe factory at Cape Girardeau; a large force of laborers, carpenters and other artisans were put to the task of opening up the ground for the foundations and preparing timbers for the first carpenter work; the grounds at the north end of the city for many years was where circuses gave their performances.

P.B. Lang has moved his tailoring shop from 7 Themis St. to 608 Good Hope St. in Cape Girardeau.

-- Sharon K. Sanders