Out of the past 5/10/07

25 years ago: May 10, 1982

Dick and Corrine Robinson, who recently acquired space in a building at 351 Christine St. in Cape Girardeau, are operating the Hitchin' Post at that location.

Half of the 900 Southeast Missouri State University students who received degrees at yesterday's commencement ceremony will have a hard time finding a job; that dismal prediction is made by the university's director of placement services, Larry Beard, who says he has never seen the job market so limited.

50 years ago: May 10, 1957

Constructed of a $110,000 building to house operations of the Guth Bros. Block Co., was started this week on a 3 1/4-acre tract of ground purchased by the firm from the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Fund in the tract east of Arena Park.

A broad new scholarship program which is expected to encourage more Southeast Missouri high school pupils to attend college is announced by State College; the program makes scholarships available to specific numbers of pupils, according to each school's enrollment, who are in the upper 40 percent of their class and score a required mark on a standard test.

75 years ago: May 10, 1932

Six Cape Girardeau veterans of the Civil War are enrolled on the records of the Grand Army of the Republic for its convention here, but only one is able to attend; he is George W. Abernathie, 89; the others, all of whom are ill, are Frederick Hahn, Henry Klaproth, Christopher Schrader, F.A. Kage, and Henry Schweer.

On a leisurely trip down the Mississippi River by canoe, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Heidt of Lansing, Mich., stop in Cape Girardeau in the evening and will spend a few days here looking about the city.

100 years ago: May 10, 1907

The indications for a flood along the Mississippi River this spring are strong; the river today registers 22 feet at Cape Girardeau; with the banks full already, the June rise is predicted to bring considerable damage.

Several teams of athletes, who will participate in the big athletic carnival at the fairgrounds tomorrow, arrive early in Cape Girardeau; in all , 13 teams, with 130 young athletes, will participate in athletic and scholastic competition.

-- Sharon K. Sanders