Out of the past 6/8/07

25 years ago: June 8, 1983

Cape Girardeau's proposed $10,070,863 budget for the 1982-1983 fiscal year doesn't quite have enough money in it to please everyone; at a public hearing last night, a subsidy of more than $15,000 was requested to help underwrite the operation of Channel 10, the city's local cable access channel, and a $25,000 request was presented for the purchase of new lighting systems for several softball diamonds at Arena Park.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- For the first time in 14 years, Perryville has a new city marshal; voters elect Perry County deputy L. James Huber to the post.

50 years ago: June 8, 1957

Construction on two major public projects in Cape Girardeau is almost at a standstill as negotiations continue between plumbing contractors and members of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 318 (AFL); work has practically stopped on the city's new swimming pool and new Jefferson School.

D.F. Elledge, 57, is brought to South­east Missouri Hospital in Cape Girar­deau after he was bitten by a copperhead snake as he was working on his farm six miles south of Lutesville, Mo., on Highway 51.

75 years ago: June 8, 1932

Burglars loot the J.C. Penney Co. store, 5 N. Main St., in Cape Girardeau, of $360 and merchandise roughly estimated at a value of $500; they enter the building on the second floor from the roof of the Woolworth building and turn the store topsy-turvey.

Additional warehouse space has been leased by the Cape Grocers Association Inc., 111 Water St., in Cape Girardeau; the firm has occupied its present quarters for five years; the new quarters are adjacent to the old on the south.

100 years ago: June 8, 1907

L.B. Blackwood, who came down to Cape Girardeau from St. Louis the other day to look after the progress of the new Methodist church, is making plans for a new front for the H.P. Peironnet store, 11-13-15 N. Main St.; Blackwood has been ordered to spare no expense in designing a modern front.

Cape Girardeau chief of police Willis Martin is able to be out on the streets through the aid of crutches; he hurt his right leg several months ago and developed blood poisoning; it is mending now, and in a few weeks he should be on duty again.

-- Sharon K. Sanders