Out of the past 6/7/11

25 years ago: June 7, 1986

A brand-new 4,200-square-foot $300,000 Kingdom Hall for the Cape Girardeau Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is being erected this weekend; work on the hall began yesterday at 10 a.m.; by 5 this evening, workers are installing interior furnishings in the building at 605 Northview Drive.

Roger Seyer of Cape Girardeau is performing this summer at Six Flags Over Mid-America in a saloon-style production, "Miss Kitty's Revue"; the Southeast Missouri State University freshman was chosen from among 500 auditioners.

50 years ago: June 7, 1961

An address by Hubert Wheeler, state commissioner of education, and presentation of diplomas by Superintendent L.J. Schultz mark the commencement exercises in the evening at Houck Field House for the 230 members of the Central High School senior class.

After four years of planning, building, waiting and delays, the State College music department has moved into its new $604,054 building; the five-story building, which has all glass panels on the north and south sides, fronts on the campus drive at the rear of the former Science Building and projects northward into the Home of the Birds.

75 years ago: June 7, 1936

About 100 Girardeans go to Murphysboro, Ill., to attend the annual convention of veterans of the Fifth Division; Missouri's Golden Troopers, the Cape Girardeau drum and bugle corps, is accorded the honor of leading the long parade through the downtown section over a route about 1 1/2 miles long.

The Rev. C.G. Bohanon is unanimously re-called for a three-year term as pastor of the Nazarene Church, South Park Avenue and Merriwether Street.

100 years ago: June 7, 1911

About 40 Greek laborers from a quarry north of Neelys Landing quit their work yesterday and today come to Cape Girardeau to receive their pay from First National Bank; they had refused to be separated into two bunches and worked in separate quarries; new laborers will be hired to take their places.

Cape City Bottling Works has secured the agency for Schumer Springs water.

-- Sharon K. Sanders