Out of the past 6/11/05

25 years ago: June 11, 1980

University officials decide to remove the parking meters that have been in place for the past three years in the 900 block of Normal Avenue, on the Southeast Missouri State University campus.

The lack of adequate space in the Jackson High School gymnasium has prompted coaches to recommend construction of a 3,800-square-foot multipurpose addition to help alleviate some of the space shortage.

50 years ago: June 11, 1955

Mrs. Paul A. Mueller Jr. of Jackson, a law school graduate at the University of Missouri, won the endorsement of the Cape Girardeau County Democratic Committee last night for the vacant post of magistrate in the county; her name will be sent to Gov. Phil M. Donnelly with the recommendation that she be appointed to fill the post left vacant by the death of Clyde M. Baugh.

Many Cape Girardeau streets were turned into rivers yesterday afternoon by a torrential downpour, causing cars to drown out in several low places and doing minor damage in some instances; rainfall up to 7 a.m. today measures 2.15 inches, most of that amount being concentrated in yesterday's late-afternoon downpour.

75 years ago: June 11, 1930

James S. Brady, a Republican living in Oran, Mo., has been appointed by Gov. Henry Caufield as judge of the second district of the Scott County Court, filling the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Anton LeGrand of near Benton, Mo.

Elvin Krueger, who resides north of Cape Girardeau on the Neelys Landing road, has to look twice before he believes his eyes when he runs across a six-foot-long rattlesnake in a woodland while hunting on the farm of Henry Brinkopf.

100 years ago: June 11, 1905

The first of a series of prominent divines and educators of the state fills the pulpit at First Presbyterian Church, recently vacated by the Rev. R.S. Brown; the Rev. J.B. Game of Fayette, Mo., who is offering instruction in the Normal School during the summer months, delivers the morning sermon.

The "lid" is firmly on in Cape Girardeau, and no spirits are sold here today, Sunday; still, those who have a taste for something stronger than lemonade take the ferry across the river to Illinois, where liquor is sold from an unpainted frame building standing among the bushes and trees; the ferryman does a booming business.

-- Sharon K. Sanders