Out of the past 7/13/06

25 years ago: July 13, 1981

Seventeen acres of land west of Hardware Wholesalers Inc., in the Greater Cape Girardeau Industrial Park, has been sold to Q.C. Corporation of Baltimore, which announces intentions to build a plant there.

The summer graduating class of Southeast Missouri State University will hear an address by Rep. Marvin E. Proffer of Jackson at commencement ceremonies Friday evening on the terraces east of Academic Hall; the day of the week for the graduation is a change from the practice of previous years, when summer commencements were held on a Saturday.

50 years ago: July 13, 1956

Leon McLaughlin, former Cape Girardeau city commissioner, has purchased and begun operation of a grocery market at 1830 Bloomfield St.; the store, formerly operated by Albert and Berniece Rodgers, will be known as "Stop 'N Shop" store.

Cape Girardeau's sixth internationally-affiliated service club -- the Breakfast Optimist Club -- will be formally chartered at a dinner meeting tomorrow night at the Hotel Idan-Ha; it is the second Optimist Club here, the original one, which meets on Thursday night, having been organized in 1926.

75 years ago: July 13, 1931

The best yield of wheat in Cape Girardeau County so far reported has been made on the farm of Herman Hoffmeister, near Gordonville; from 44 acres the yield was 1,540 bushels, or 35 bushels to the acre; Hoffmeister says this is the best yield he's ever seen, and he has been a farmer many years.

Construction work on the Allenville feeder road being improved by the Cape Special Road District is progressing satisfactorily, according to D.M. Scivally, engineer for the district; a mile and a half of the route is now graded, and the earthwork, using a tractor, is going ahead steadily.

100 years ago: July 13, 1906

An advance detail of the First Regiment and of Batteries A and B of the Missouri National Guard arrived in Cape Girardeau last evening on the steamer Saltillo from St. Louis; one of the field rifles was brought along to test the horses that have been engaged here for the maneuvers; the encampment will be held on land south of the city.

Granitoid sidewalks are beginning to show up well on Broadway; the pavements are torn up in spots on every block where new sidewalks are going down.

-- Sharon K. Sanders