Out of the past 6/10/08

25 years ago: June 10, 1983

The Cape Girardeau city sanitation department is dumping its day-labor program as of July 1, ending a nine-year-old practice of hiring as many as six to seven workers daily to fill out the ranks of trash collection crews.

Five Cape Girardeau police officers earned medals in the annual Missouri State Police Olympics; bringing home medals are Tactical Officer Robert McCoy, patrol officers Nate Brown, Judy Klaproth and William McHughes, and Chief Ray Johnson.

50 years ago: June 10, 1958

An 84-foot section of granite cobblestones on the Mississippi riverfront at the foot of Broadway is being removed in preparation for the building of the floodwall in that area; the stones are being taken up by a bulldozer by the wall contractor, George L. Cousins Construction Co. of St. Louis.

Gene Engelhardt of Cape Girardeau, principal of College High School, has accepted a position as principal of Lindbergh High School in St. Louis County; Engelhardt, who has been at College High the past four years, will take his new position in September.

75 years ago: June 10, 1933

The Chicago Iron Works submitted the low bid for the steel water tank or reservoir to be erected for the Jackson municipal water and light plant and was awarded the contract for $9,745, which includes the foundation; work on the new structure at the extreme north edge of the power plant premises will begin at once.

Prowlers in the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce building last night made off with a large electric fan; nothing else was taken.

100 years ago: June 10, 1908

W.J. Adams yesterday caught a catfish in the Mississippi River that weighed in at 97 pounds; Bob Brinkopf, who declares himself an expert at such things, believes the fish to be around 50 years old.

The cornerstone of the new Methodist church at Jackson is placed with impressive ceremonies in the afternoon, Elder Crow and the Rev. Tetley being present; many church records and papers, a Bible and hymnal are sealed in a copper box and placed in the stone.

— Sharon K. Sanders