Out of the past 4/29/12

25 years ago: April 29, 1987

Dr. Bill W. Stacy, president of Southeast Missouri State University, says the $27.6 million budget recommended for the school next year by a Senate subcommittee would meet basic needs of the university but would provide little for program, equipment and building improvements being sought.

Southeast Missouri State University is holding its annual Teacher Recruitment Day; administrators representing various school districts are hoping to find teachers, especially instructors of science, math and special education.

50 years ago: April 29, 1962

The annual Man and Boy Banquet, sponsored by the Brotherhood of the Red Star Baptist Church, was held Friday evening for all men and boys of the congregation; guest speakers were professional football players John Wittenborn of the Philadelphia Eagles and Kenneth Iman of the Green Bay Packers.

Members of First Presbyterian Church vote to enter into an expansion program expected to result in a new church on its present site at Broadway and Lorimier Street and establishment by the Potosi Presbytery of a second Presbyterian church in the city.

75 years ago: April 29, 1937

A 10-year lease has been taken by the Felden Roofing Co. on the factory building on West Independence Street occupied by the Cape Butter Tub Co.; A.J. Flentge, owner, says he will move his butter-tub plant elsewhere, where he will be closer to the source of timber supply.

The grand opening for Schiff's, a new shoe store at 17 N. Main St., will be held Saturday; the store is in the building formerly occupied by Kinney Shoe Store; Charles F. Hart, who was transferred here from Anderson, Ind., will have charge of the shop.

100 years ago: April 29, 1912

The Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau is on another rise, the gauge reaching 31 feet in the morning; conditions are serious across the river, where this new flood is pouring into the low lands through the broken dump on the Illinois Central Railroad, where about 300 feet of the track is gone at the place where the dynamiting is alleged to have broken the levee during the last rise.

With calliope playing gaily, the show boat Wonderland ties up at the Cape Girardeau wharf.

-- Sharon K. Sanders