Out of the past 5/24/07

25 years ago: May 24, 1982

The Cape Girardeau County Court says it will hold a public hearing June 3 on the proposed development of a mobile home park to be located near Klaus Park; the County Planning Commission has approved the development, but Cape Girardeau city officials have protested the commission action.

The father of Dejan Kocevski, 7-year-old child who was found abandoned in a burning house in Cape Girardeau last month, is expected to arrive in Cape Girardeau tomorrow; Branko Kocevski is coming here from Germany.

50 years ago: May 24, 1957

Fed by excessive rain, the Mississippi River nears flood stage at Cape Girardeau; the stage at 7 a.m. is 31.4 feet, with flood stage being 32 feet.

Pastors of the four Methodist churches in Cape Girardeau return for another year; they are: the Rev. R.C. Holliday, Centenary; the Rev. G.W. Heslar, Grace; the Rev. J.A. Wilson, Maple Avenue; and the Rev. Rusby Slinkard, Third Street and Hobbs Chapel.

75 years ago: May 24, 1932

A petition signed by 31 property owners, owning an aggregate of 3,740 front feet of property, seeking the surfacing of Bloomfield street from Boulevard to the western city limits of Cape Girardeau is filed with the city clerk.

Cape Girardeau's city mail carriers and two substitutes have new summer uniforms of dark blue; the carriers are Lewis Daugherty, Otto Davenport, Truman E. Gladish, Era Helderman, George C. Hensley, Joe E. Moore, Steven C. Propst and Mason Thomas, and the substitutes are Ivan S. Neal and Henry W. Sanders.

100 years ago: May 24, 1907

The Jackson school board has hired its teachers for the coming school year; serving the public schools will be principal, R.E. Seitz; first assistant, Albert Spradling; Josephine Bagwell, Bessie Baker, Bernice Limbaugh, Lydia Kies, Emma Brantley, Esther Foley, Martin LaPierre and Lulu Harris; William Brooks was again employed to teach the black school.

The first meeting of the great revival forces was held last evening at the tabernacle at Middle and Bellevue streets in Cape Girardeau; evangelist of the meeting is Lincoln McConnell.

-- Sharon K. Sanders