Out of the past 7/14/05

25 years ago: July 14, 1980

Lt. Gov. William C. Phelps, expressing confidence that his drive for the governor's mansion this year will be successful, brings his campaign to Cape Girardeau; Phelps claims "a broad base of support among Missouri Republicans"; he is locked in a battle with former Gov. Kit Bond for the GOP nomination.

Cape Girardeau County sales tax revenue totaled $543,102.76 in the first six months of this year, according to H. Weldon Macke, county auditor; county officials previously had been concerned that sales tax revenue was falling substantially behind what had been anticipated.

50 years ago: July 14, 1955

A total of 1,850 enlisted men and 145 officers from Southeast Missouri, members of the 140th Infantry Regiment of the Missouri National Guard, will undergo two weeks of intensive training at Camp McCoy, Wis., next month; five troop trains will transport the main body of the troops to the camp in southwestern Wisconsin on July 30.

Seriousness of the student housing shortage at State College is pinpointed with an announcement that at least 150 more places in town will be needed for the upcoming term than were required last September to accommodate students outside the dorms.

75 years ago: July 14, 1930

After suffering through a week of abnormally hot weather, Cape Girardeau finds relief from the intense heat that brought two deaths; the break in the heat wave came late yesterday afternoon with cooling breezes from the northwest.

Superintendent C.C. Marshall of the Ely & Walker Co. garment factory in Illmo issues a call for 200 young women to work in the plant; new machinery is being received and installed, and the working force will be increased to enable the factory to meet the demand for its product.

100 years ago: July 14, 1905

It is announced that The Daily Republican office will move next week to a new location; the large house at the corner of Broadway and Spanish Street, known as the Wilson property, has been leased for a long term of years, and alterations are now being made that will make it into a model printing office.

Joseph Clark of St. Louis, Mo., has been in the city several days conferring with the directors of the waterworks and electric light plant company in the matter of installing a gas system in Cape Girardeau; the plans for the system were examined and finally approved, and bids for the supplies will be asked for at once.

-- Sharon K. Sanders