Out of the past 6/10/06

25 years ago: June 10, 1981

Expenditures which will amount to about $20,000 and which will cover both routine maintenance and the addition of classroom space at Jefferson School were approved by the Cape Girardeau Board of Education at its meeting last night; additional space for special programs has been needed at Jefferson for some time; the school was built in 1957.

A $1.5 million bond issue to finance construction of classroom additions and expansion of the high school gymnasium will come before Jackson voters in a special election Aug. 4.

50 years ago: June 10, 1956

The Sisters of the Swish, the women's sesquicentennial counterpart of the Brothers of the Brush, conducted their first session of court last night at Ye Olde Stockade on Good Hope Street, with a sizable number of violators to deal with; violators were those women caught on the street Saturday without their Swish bonnets.

Ervin T. Leimer of Pocahontas has been named coach and athletic director of the new Parkway Consolidated School in St. Louis County; Leimer is a graduate of State College in Cape Girardeau and previously coached at Bismarck, Brentwood, John Burroughs and Lutheran High in St. Louis.

75 years ago: June 10, 1931

All rights of way for a county highway from Allenville north and east to the Whitewater-Dutchtown farm-to-market road has been secured, and construction work begins today; the Allenville community has been isolated, as far as all-weather roads are concerned, as Whitewater had been prior to the building of the gravel road to that place.

A petition asking for the installation of automobile traffic lights at the intersection of Main and Broadway is filed with city clerk W.C. Kaempfer by business firms in the vicinity of the intersection.

100 years ago: June 10, 1906

The Capahas play the best baseball game seen here in many years when they win a spirited battle over the New Madrid, Mo., team; the Caps jump on the visiting pitcher in the sixth and with two corking hits, an error and a little confusion, tie the score; in the eighth, the locals win by getting in two more scores.

George Seibert, uncle of J.M. and D.B. Seibert, prominent Democratic politicians, died at his home near Shawneetown Friday; he was 92 years old, one of the oldest residents of Cape Girardeau County; Seibert was born in Virginia in 1814 and came to this area in 1821.

-- Sharon K. Sanders