Out of the past 6/8/09

25 years ago: June 8, 1984

Hundreds of residents wait outside Central Junior High School to turn in applications for employment at the Procter & Gamble plant near Cape Girardeau; 15 jobs will be available at the firm.

At a hastily called morning news conference at Cape Girardeau City Hall, Mayor Howard C. Tooke, who chairs the Multipurpose Building Committee, says "there is altogether too much indirect pressure being applied" to members of the committee; he calls for unity and public cooperation concerning the project.

50 years ago: June 8, 1959

Southern Illinois' most plush nightspot, the Colony Club, four miles east of Cape Girardeau at the junctions of highways 146 and 3, is destroyed by fire thought to have originated in the kitchen at about 6 a.m.; the establishment was jointly owned by John Wilson of McClure, Ill., and Cape Girardeau, and Miles Hill of McClure.

Pros and cons for the rezoning of the J.P. Redwine property along the riverfront, between North Rand and the Frisco Railroad tracks, from light industry to heavy industry are heard at a city council meeting; the request for the rezoning is made for the purpose of constructing a new 20,000-barrel gasoline storage tank.

75 years ago: June 8, 1934

Patrolman Edgar W. Hirsch of the Cape Girardeau Police Department is riding a new, red motorcycle; the vehicle is purchased from Harry Warder of McClure, Ill., at a cost of $270.

Four barges of lumber are being loaded on the riverfront here for use in construction work along the Missouri River; the lumber was shipped here over the Frisco Railroad from near Williamsville, Mo.; each of the barges will hold about 60,000 board feet of lumber.

100 years ago: June 8, 1909

Despite the opposition of the Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian churches, as well as the numerous people who signed petitions, the Cape Girardeau City Council last night voted to allow Sunday shows; the vote passed over the previous veto of Mayor M.E. Leming.

C.S. Fasselmann, the furniture man of Danville, Ill., has about decided to locate a furniture factory in Cape Girardeau.

-- Sharon K. Sanders