Out of the past 6/30/09

25 years ago: June 30, 1984

Missouri Attorney General John Ashcroft, while in Cape Girardeau, announces he has been publicly endorsed in his bid for the governor's post by 25 Missouri Republican legislators, including Cape Girardeau Rep. Mary Kasten.

Horizon Screen Printing, owned and operated by Rhoda Reeves, has completed its move to the lower level of the Bulletin-Journal building, 430 Broadway; Horizon has leased the area formerly occupied by Concord Publishing House and the newspaper presses, which were moved to the former Missourian Litho and Printing Co. on William Street.

50 years ago: June 30, 1959

Chester M. Brown, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Brown of Cape Girardeau, this week was made president of Allied Chemical Corp., with headquarters in New York City; Brown attended State College from 1925 through 1927, studying science, and did other work at the University of Missouri.

S. David Patterson has taken a position with the Cape Girardeau Federal Savings & Loan Association; he was graduated from State College in May with a bachelor of science degree in business administration.

75 years ago: June 30, 1934

Some relief from the intense heat that has gripped Southeast Missouri for nearly three weeks comes today, preceding showers that fall intermittently during the morning, but which give little aid to the drought-stricken area.

Eighty percent of the business owners on Broadway, Main and Good Hope streets have signed petitions asking for abandonment of Cape Girardeau's street car system.

100 years ago: June 30, 1909

Louis F. Klostermann, 72, dies in the morning; he was born in Germany, and came to the United States when he was 14 years old; he clerked at various stores here until the advent of the Civil War, when he raised a company of Union soldiers for the 29th Missouri Infantry; Klostermann is survived by his widow, a son, daughter and sister, as well as one grandson, Louis K. Juden, of Oklahoma City, Okla.

At a special election yesterday, the Jackson school district voted by an overwhelming majority to buy the property of the Jackson Military Academy to be used as a high school.

­-- Sharon K. Sanders