Out of the past 5/25/10

25 years ago: May 25, 1985

The municipal pool at Central High School in Cape Girardeau opens, and will remain open throughout the summer; the Capaha Park pool should open some time in June.

Construction is progressing on a new building for Bargain Hound at 851 S. Kingshighway; when completed, the business will be moved from its current location at 2228 Bloomfield Road.

50 years ago: May 25, 1960

Cape Girardeau voters yesterday, for the second time in six weeks, rejected a proposal that the school district issue $1,650,000 in bonds to finance construction of a new junior high school and the remodeling of the existing building; the vote was: For, 2,156; against, 1,357.

Weather conditions permitting, a 2 1/2-story frame house on Perry Avenue just south of St. Mary's Cemetery will be burned Tuesday by firemen as part of a special training program; the house, owned by the cemetery association, had been scheduled to be razed.

75 years ago: May 25, 1935

Gov. Guy Park announces the appointment of Fred A. Groves of Cape Girardeau as a member of the Board of Regents of the Southeast Missouri State Teachers College here; he will serve the remainder of the term of Julien Friant of Cape Girardeau and Washington, D.C., who resigned.

Work is in progress on the remodeling of the Cape Girardeau Country Club building; an entrance has been built on the east side, and a room, 16 feet by 40 feet, located on the first floor from the clubhouse to the swimming pool, a distance of about 60 feet, has been built; the rear porch has been enclosed by lattice work.

100 years ago: May 25, 1910

Lawyer N.A. Mozely of Benton, Mo., is in Cape Girardeau looking over real estate, with the purchase of a home in view.

The Cape Girardeau City Council went back to primitive methods last night, when the electric lights "went punk" just as clerk Chris Betten got into the middle of an ordinance calling for paved streets; tallow candles were put into service; the city work went on in this manner until the electrician got the lights going again.

-- Sharon K. Sanders