Out of the past 5/5/07

25 years ago: May 5, 1982

Unlike the April election, yesterday's vote to elect two Delta school board members went smoothly; elected to the school board were declared write-in candidates Jimmy Parks and Keith Cook.

Amendment 1, Missouri's $600 million bond issue proposition, which will go before voters next month, has been endorsed by the board of directors of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce.

50 years ago: May 5, 1957

The Rev. Henry A. Pickern delivered his first sermon as pastor of South Side Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau; he comes here from New Salem Baptist Church in Winfield, Mo., where he served the past two years.

Sixty children of St. Mary's Cathedral received the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist for the first time at a morning Mass; Monsignor Marion F. Forst was the celebrant.

75 years ago: May 5, 1932

Cape Girardeau City Engineer E.L. Sailer and Commissioner Louis Witt-more are making surveys in the West End in the vicinity of Southeast Missouri Hospital to determine the cost of a new sanitary sewer district; a number of property owners in that section and real estate agents have asked that the survey be made, believing that this area of the city is destined to develop rapidly.

Cape Girardeau Mayor Edward L. Drum and Commissioner E.P. Ellis appeal to residents to furnish vacant lots and garden seeds, so that a number of unemployed persons might be able to cultivate gardens this summer.

100 years ago: May 5, 1907

Despite the fact that it was generally advertised that the change would be made, many members of Cape Girar-deau's Methodist church went to the congregation's old quarters at the corner of Sprigg and Themis streets last Sunday, expecting the Rev. E.T. Adams to hold services there as usual; they hadn't heard that the Methodists would hold church at the Common Pleas Courthouse until the new Methodist church is completed; many members attended service at the old edifice, now the home of the Christian congregation.

Mrs. Chris Schraeder and daughter, Cora, went up to St. Louis on the boat last night to spend a few days.

-- Sharon K. Sanders