Out of the past 4/7/10

25 years ago: April 7, 1985

Easter Sunday. Easter sunrise services are held at several area churches, including South Side Baptist Church on Hackberry Street in Cape Girardeau and Hobbs Chapel United Methodist Church on Highway 177.

About 100 children participated yesterday in an Easter egg hunt at Capaha Park, sponsored by the Jaycees and the Easter Seal Society.

50 years ago: April 7, 1960

Workers start throwing a sandbag barricade across the breach at the north end of the Main Street Levee District floodwall as the Mississippi River rises 9/10 of a foot in 24 hours to a stage of 36.5 feet; at the same time other workers are adding another two feet of earth to the emergency levee thrown around a large area of the North Main Street Levee Improvement District, including the shoe factory and Missouri Utilities Co. power plant.

The Missouri Baptist Women's Missionary Union opens its annual convention in Cape Girardeau, with delegates on hand from many churches throughout the state.

75 years ago: April 7, 1935

Mary Kempe of Cape Girardeau has been notified by Dr. Louis Shores, director of the school of library science of George Peabody College at Nashville, Tenn., that she has been awarded another scholarship there; it is the third Kempe has been given.

Representatives from virtually every Christian Church in Southeast Missouri attend memorial services in Cape Girardeau for the Rev. Horace Siberell, a former pastor of the church, a supper conference at the Hotel Marquette and an evening worship service afterward at the local church.

100 years ago: April 7, 1910

Mike Rafferty, a laborer on the Broadway excavating gang, meets with a painful accident in the morning while loading rock on a wagon; as he is lifting a large rock over the side of the wagon, it gets away from him and falls on his left foot, breaking the big toe and badly mashing the foot.

Continuing its progressive road policy, the county has contracted with Missouri Bridge and Iron Co. to build three new steel bridges; five were built last year under the supervision of highway engineer Dennis Scivally.

-- Sharon K. Sanders