Out of the past 6/17/05

25 years ago: June 17, 1980

Slightly more than three years after it opened its doors, the Southeast Missouri Museum on Water Street will close after this weekend's Riverfest.

Construction of an alcohol plant along Highway 61 north of Jackson is apparently at a standstill because the Cape Girardeau County Planning Commission hasn't approved the project; Marvin Schoen of Oak Ridge, president of SCH-AGA, Inc., the company developing the plant, says he received approval for the issuance of $751,500 in bonds from the Industrial Development Authority, but the planning commission never gave its approval so that the bonds could be issued.

50 years ago: June 17, 1955

The House of Representatives passes without change and sends to the Senate a $750,000 appropriation for the start of work leading to construction of a levee and floodwall designed to protect the Main Street and North Main Street Levee Improvement districts.

CONRAN, Mo. - A 72-hour ordeal comes to an end in the morning for McDonald Swilley, 30, Conran farmer, who, lost since Tuesday morning, is found alive and well but weak from hunger on Wilkerson Island six miles due east of here.

75 years ago: June 17, 1930

An application for an injunction to restrain city officials of Campbell, Mo., from proceeding with their plans for the construction of a municipally-owned electric light plant and distribution system is filed in federal court here by the Arkansas-Missouri Power Co., which now serves that community.

Workers are tearing down a one-story brick dwelling at 29 N. Sprigg Street, just south of the present site of the Groves Motor Co., which belongs to Fred A. Groves; a building adjoining this one was razed some time ago, and the two lots will probably be made into a used car lot for the motor company.

100 years ago: June 17, 1905

A new city electric railway system should be under construction within a few weeks; the franchise with the city states that the company must have the system completed in September.

George Cross, the job printer, and Jack Pelzer, a well-known type artist, have bought a newspaper outfit and will establish a weekly at Illmo, the new town that is building at the terminus of the Cotton Belt, about 15 miles below Cape Girardeau; the newspaper will be called the Headlight.

-- Sharon K. Sanders