Out of the past 6/28/06

25 years ago: June 28, 1981

New officers were recently elected for the Cape Girardeau Ministerial Alliance for the upcoming year; officers are president, the Rev. David Wurster, Lutheran Family and Children's services; vice president, the Rev. Sam Peters, associate pastor of First Presbyterian Church.

After area residents rejected the first plan, the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission has come up with an alternative for improving Route M in northern Scott County; the new plan calls for relocation of Route M on a diagonal line across the north edge of the Rockview, Mo., community.

50 years ago: June 28, 1956

Sinking of a Mississippi River towboat, the Carol Dean, in the narrow channel of the river near Gray's Point, Mo., is attributed to the fact that the craft struck a submerged rock; the boat, a 1,600-horsepower, single-screw type, is owned by J. Clyde Dean of Palaquemine, La.

Bennett Construction Co. of Kansas City, Mo., general contractor, began work yesterday on the new armory to be erected in the south end of Arena Park.

75 years ago: June 28, 1931

The organization of a new Baptist church on Cape Girardeau's south side is perfected during services at the Baptist Mission, held in a store building in the 900 block of South Ellis Street; the Rev. Denzil Osburn, who has been preaching twice each month at the mission for several weeks, is chosen as the church's pastor; there are 14 charter members from four families; a name for the congregation will be selected Wednesday night.

Jane Brewer of Cape Girardeau is elected president of the Arcadia Conference for young people of the Disciples of Christ, which closes its fourth annual session in the evening at Arcadia Heights, Mo.

100 years ago: June 28, 1906

CAIRO, Ill. -- Cairo shippers, numbering about 100 and headed by Egbert A. Smith, president of the Cairo Commercial Club and the Cairo National Bank, have organized a railroad company with $10,000 capital stock; it will build a line connecting Cairo with the Thebes, Ill., railroad bridge.

People living at and near the Frisco-Gulf-Cotton Belt junction at Illmo and Edna petitioned the Frisco Railroad some time ago to build a depot there, offering to donate $800 in that behalf; their offer, however, has been turned down cold; the Frisco plans to build a passenger station at the new town of Chaffee, and it will cost $10,000.

-- Sharon K. Sanders