Out of the past 7/11/12

25 years ago: July 11, 1987

CAIRO, Ill. -- More than 200 volunteers from Cairo are busy mowing the grass, cutting weeds and undergrowth and painting at Fort Defiance State Park; they include individuals, members of civic and community organizations, businesses, and members of the 1244th Transportation Company of the Illinois National Guard, based in Cairo.

The Blue Hole Bar-B-Cue, 204 N. Kingshighway, is being sold to a group of Rolla, Mo., investors, who plan to replace the building with an Arby's Roast Beef Restaurant.

50 years ago: July 11, 1962

Lindsay W. Simmons, president of First Federal Savings & Loan Association, announces the business will construct an office building next year on the site of the Bremermann dwelling at 315 Broadway; demolition of the two-story brick house, believed to be 100 years old, and the Heidbreder house to the south will probably begin next spring.

Sunny Hill Dairy Co., apparent low bidder on a milk contract with the Blytheville, Ark., Air Force Base, will supply about 500 gallons of milk a day to the big Strategic Air Command field.

75 years ago: July 11, 1937

The second of the series of summer union services sponsored by the Ministerial Alliance is conducted in the evening at First Christian Church; the speaker is the Rev. R.H. Daugherty, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church.

Sick only three hours, Cape Girardeau police chief Paul B. McNeely, 46, dies of angina pectoris at his home; his death comes just 11 days after his appointment as head of the police department.

100 years ago: July 11, 1912

The general superintendent of the Houck system is at Ancell, putting in a switch for the Stein & Lance wheat warehouse; wheat threshing in that neighborhood is being rushed, and much of the grain will be stored in the grain bins there until it is shipped to the mills in this city.

An order of the Camp Fire Girls, which in a manner is a girls' auxiliary to the Boy Scouts, was organized yesterday in Cape Girardeau, under the official title of Capaha Camp Fire Girls; Irma Kochtitzky was chosen as guardian of the fire; members of the group are Wathena Ranney, Roberta Ranney, Ramona Duckworth, Edith Roberts and Mary Brucher.

-- Sharon K. Sanders