Out of the past 4/29/11

25 years ago: April 29, 1986

Acting public works director Guy A. Lowes says the city of Cape Girardeau will clean up the debris, such as old tires, that has ended up on private property adjacent to the city landfill; the city will also correct the problem of debris that has worked its way to the surface on the west side of the landfill near the property of J.E. Deevers.

Jackson city officials have purchased the south portion of the former Coca-Cola bottling plant property from the county commission; the city will construct a 46-space parking area immediately south of what will be the county's new administrative office building.

50 years ago: April 29, 1961

Dean Earl F. English of the 13th annual photo workshop of the University of Missouri School of Journalism announces the workshop will be conducted May 21 to 28 in Cape Girardeau under the sponsorship of The Missourian.

The luxuries of drinking and smoking will both take a jump in price Monday, the result of a 50 percent increase in the state tax on liquor, beer and wine and of the new 2-cent additional tax per package of cigarettes.

75 years ago: April 29, 1936

"Jumbo," the pumper firetruck that was the first motorized vehicle purchased by the city of Cape Girardeau in 1916, is sold to Pete Stein, machinery and junk dealer of St. Louis, who hauls it away; the city receives $100 for the truck, chiefly because it contains some brass and iron; in 1916, the city purchased the pumper and a hook and ladder truck for $11,792.50, as well as some other equipment.

Rubbish is piled high in the parkways along Cape Girardeau streets as the first of the three-day annual spring cleanup campaign gets underway; the city is providing four trucks, manned by a driver and two workers, to pick up the refuse.

100 years ago: April 29, 1911

Elizabeth Smith, a teacher in the Caruthersville, Mo., schools and a former Normal School student, comes to Cape Girardeau on the Gulf road to visit her relative, Fannie Cunningham.

W.R. Whittaker, who is carpentering in Illinois, across from Neelys Landing, comes to town to spend the weekend with his folks; Whittaker reports he has all the carpenter work he can handle and has also planted 10 acres of potatoes on his son's farm.

-- Sharon K. Sanders