Out of the past 5/27/09

25 years ago: May 27, 1984

As the NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships came to a close yesterday, the Southeast Missouri State University Indians counted 11 all-Americans among their ranks; two earned three all-American awards and three others climbed the reviewing stand twice; Southeast took the third-place trophy.

Cliff House at 16 Morgan Oak St., a shop featuring handmade arts and crafts, gift items and antiques, will open June 4; the shop, owned by Steve E. and Donna J. Essner, occupies the 95-year-old original kitchen/laundry room of the old Osterloh home next door.

50 years ago: May 27, 1959

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Two armed bandits, one brandishing a submachine gun, herd five employees of the Bank of Advance into a safe deposit vault at 1:30 p.m. and flee with an undetermined amount of cash.

A bolt of lightning during a morning storm strikes the fence surrounding the municipal swimming pool, knocking Ray O'Howell from a five-gallon lard can upon which he is sitting, but apparently doing him no harm; O'Howell and Billy Wickham were washing down the pool before its opening Saturday.

75 years ago: May 27, 1934

Cape Girardeau Mayor Edward L. Drum delivers the Memorial Day address in the afternoon at Old Lorimier Cemetery, where tribute is paid the memory of 350 Civil War veterans buried in cemeteries here; of that number, 108 rest in Old Lorimier.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- J.R. Franck of Chaffee, a fireman on the Frisco Railroad, sustains a badly fractured skull when his head strikes a signal bridge in the St. Louis railroad terminal; as he leans out of the cab of the locomotive, he is hit by the protruding arm.

100 years ago: May 27, 1909

The steamer Cape Girardeau made its initial trip of the season last night with the drummers' excursion for Caruthersville, Mo.; there were about 350 people aboard when leaving here.

Theo Meyer, brewer at the Appleton brewery, made a trip to Tilsit on Saturday, returning the next day; the brewery plans to build an ice house at Tilsit, where it has an agent to handle the beer.

-- Sharon K. Sanders