Out of the past 5/22/10

25 years ago: May 22, 1985

According to an official with Cape Mercantile Bank and Trust Co., several Cape Girardeau "civic groups" are considering making offers to purchase an 889-acre tract of land in Cape Girardeau County, commonly known as the Black Forest Villages; the bank purchased the property, part of the estate of the late Burton J. Gerhardt, last month.

The Little River Drainage District reiterates its stand of a 10-horsepower motor regulation on the Diversion Channel; the rule was emphasized because of an increase of boaters using the channel; that increase was prompted by the installation of a new boat ramp leading to the channel, near the Interstate 55 bridge.

50 years ago: May 22, 1960

James R. Reineke, 5, of Petersburg, Ind., who is billed as the "youngest preacher in the world," appears at the First Pentecostal Assembly for Sunday School in the morning and for evening worship service.

Clyde T. Gibbs of Hodgenville, Ky., has accepted a call extended from the First Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau to become the minister of Christian education at the church.

75 years ago: May 22, 1935

Hordes of army worms, feasting on anything green, but preferring timothy, are doing heavy damage on farms of Southeast Missouri; considerable harm is being done in Scott and Stoddard counties, in the level land in the south end of Cape Girardeau County and elsewhere.

State College holds its 61st annual commencement at Academic Hall auditorium, graduating 100 men and women; Dean Henry L. Smith of the School of Education, University of Indiana, and president of the National Education Association, delivers the commencement address.

100 years ago: May 22, 1910

Mr. and Mrs. August Heuer of Egypt Mills, William Buhme of Gordonville, Carl Hartling of Whitewater and Mrs. August Metje leave on a trip to Bremen, Germany.

Mrs. M.A. Grissom, past noble grand matron of the Cape Girardeau Rebekah Lodge, and district deputy president, returned recently from Columbia, Mo., where she attended a meeting of the state organization; while there, she was honored with the Decoration of Chivalry and invested with the insignia of that rank.

-- Sharon K. Sanders