Out of the past 6/22/10

25 years ago: June 22, 1985

Work is underway on the installation of a new copper roof at Old St. Vincent's Church on Main Street in the ongoing restoration of the historic building; the new roof will complete work on the restoration of the exterior of the 132-year-old edifice.

U.S. Comptroller General Charles A. Bowsher was the main speaker last night at the annual Southeast Missouri State University Copper Dome Society Dinner at the Holiday Inn Convention Center.

50 years ago: June 22, 1960

Workers are renovating the four brick columns in Capaha Park at the West End Boulevard-Broadway intersection; old bricks are being removed in some instances and new material installed; the work is being done under the direction of contractor Sherman Hill.

The resort weather had predominated the days and nights throughout the month depart hastily in the face of the first torrid day of the summer; the temperature rises officially to 98 degrees, but on thermometers at various places in town it tops out at 100 degrees or higher.

75 years ago: June 22, 1935

A. Baudendistel, while in Cape Girardeau yesterday, reports construction has started on an emergency airplane landing field near Advance, Mo., being built by the government; 60 acres of land have been leased from Charles Bidwell and 10 from Asa Looney.

A team from the Corps of Engineers office at Cairo, Ill., will begin a survey Monday of the southern part of Cape Girardeau along the Mississippi River with the purpose of determining whether a levee can be built to protect that section from floods of the Mississippi.

100 years ago: June 22, 1910

D.A. Glenn and daughter, Ruth, leave in the morning on the steamer Stacker Lee for Kuttawa, Ky., where they will spend a week with Mr. Glenn's brother and sister.

Edward F. Regenhardt receives notice of the Senate's confirmation of his appointment as U.S. marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri.

-- Sharon K. Sanders