Out of the past 6/21/09

25 years ago: June 21, 1984

The Cape Girardeau City Council deadlocked last night over selection of a site for the multipurpose building; voting for the Southeast Missouri State University campus site were Mayor Howard Tooke, Robert Herbst and Loretta Schneider; voting against it were Donald Strohmeyer, Peter Hilty and Curtis Smith; David Barklage abstained; earlier in the evening, the university board of regents approved the campus site.

The Cape Girardeau County Court votes to allow the Women's Center and Safe House to continue a petition drive to put a measure on the November ballot that would increase marriage license and divorce decree fees.

50 years ago: June 21, 1959

Services of rededication are held in the morning and afternoon for the renovated Eisleben Lutheran Church in Illmo; extensive changes were made in the chancel of the church, including the removal of two windows, the building of an arch and the replacing of the metal ceiling with plaster.

A roll call of members of the confirmation classes of the past 25 years is featured in the morning during a reunion and rededication service at Hanover Lutheran Church.

75 years ago: June 21, 1934

Equipment for the local relief canning factory, to be established in a former laundry building on West End Boulevard, is en route to Cape Girardeau; it consists of pressure cookers, mechanical sealers and necessary auxiliary equipment.

Officials of Missouri Utilities, owners of Cape Girardeau's streetcar system, won't confirm reports that they are seeking to abandon the railway.

100 years ago: June 21, 1909

The Cape Girardeau City Council votes to purchase the Krueger property, adjoining the New City Cemetery, at a cost of $3,500; it will be used to extend the burial grounds; Mercer Wilson appears before the council, offering to sell the city property overlooking the river for a cemetery, but the council favors the Krueger land, owing to its proximity to the present graveyard.

With repairs in progress to its type-casting machine, The Republican newspaper has had to return to setting type by hand.

-- Sharon K. Sanders