Out of the past 5/26/07

25 years ago: May 26, 1982

Having done all their talking at last week's work session on teacher salaries, members of the Jackson School Board without comment last night unanimously approved an approximately 5 percent pay raise for teachers and administrators for the 1982-1983 school year.

Pat Colon, an all-stater at Cape Girardeau Central High School for the past two seasons, signs to play basketball at Southeast Missouri State University.

50 years ago: May 26, 1957

The Rev. Charles H. Helmsing, D.D., bishop of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese, delivers the commencement address and awards diplomas at the commencement program of the Cape Catholic High School; 51 students graduate.

Seventeen seniors attending St. Vincent's College in Cape Girardeau receive their diplomas in commencement exercises in the seminary chapel; tomorrow, the graduates will leave for St. Mary's Seminary at Perryville, Mo., where they will begin their two-year Novitiate, the next step in their preparation for entering the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentian) Community.

75 years ago: May 26, 1932

Property owners along Bend Road file a petition with the Cape Girardeau city clerk asking for the surfacing of a mile of the route from the end of the paving on North Main Street to the northern city limits; the 25 signers own a total front footage of property of about 5,800 feet.

The building at 603 Broadway, occupied by the Gust Schultz barbershop, is being repapered and other interior improvements are taking place; the front of the shop has also been screened.

100 years ago: May 26, 1907

Members of Trinity Lutheran Church of Cape Girardeau hold a mission festival at the fairgrounds; services there are conducted in the morning in German by the Rev. F. Klug of Farmington, Mo., and in the afternoon in English by the Rev. August Merz of Tilsit.

A memorial service is held at Christ Episcopal Church in memory of the soldiers who lost their lives in the struggle to maintain the Union; attending were members of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Women's Relief Corps, Ladies' Aid, Sons of Veterans and the public.

-- Sharon K. Sanders