Out of the past 6/6/12

25 years ago: June 6, 1987

Design location of a new, four-lane bridge over the Mississippi River connected to Interstate 55 by a new four-lane highway across Cape Girardeau has been approved by the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission; while a new bridge here has long been discussed, this is the first disclosure by the department that it is considering a new highway to run east-west through the south-central part of town.

Dr. Jerry McNeely, a playwright, director and producer for Lorimar-Telepictures Inc. and a Cape Girardeau native, was commencement speaker at exercises last night for Central High School.

50 years ago: June 6, 1962

A house-to-house bread-selling campaign is being planned for tomorrow evening in an effort to raise money to send the Cape Choraliers to the World's Fair in Seattle; about 1,500 loaves of bread, donated by four local bakeries, will be sold at $1 each.

Fire causes extensive damage to the two-story brick house of contractor R.B. Potashnick in the morning; unofficial estimates put the loss at between $75,000 and $100,000.

75 years ago: June 6, 1937

Centenary Methodist Church alters its service schedule for the summer, moving its morning worship to 8:30 instead of 11; evening services won't be held at the church during the summer, but the congregation will participate in the Ministerial Alliance's union services in July and August.

The Rev. Emmitt Cross of Jackson plans to enter evangelical work after attending a Bible school conducted by Fundamentalist Baptist Churches at Detroit beginning June 20; he has resigned as pastor of Calvary Baptist Church at Jackson.

100 years ago: June 6, 1912

The Daily Republican has opened a permanent office in Jackson for the transaction of all kinds of business connected with the newspaper; John Putz is manager of the Jackson office.

News has just been received of the wedding of Elizabeth E. Morie, one of the most beautiful girls who ever lived in Cape Girardeau, to O.L. Lambert, a banker in Roundup, Mont.; Mrs. Lambert, the daughter of Philip Morie of Cape Girardeau, last summer was elected supervisor of drawing in the city schools of Roundup.

-- Sharon K. Sanders