Out of the past 7/14/06

25 years ago: July 14, 1981

Inman Freight Systems, Inc., 321 S. Sprigg St., has been purchased by Wintz Transportation Co. of Minneapolis, Ind., it is announced by Inman officials; the terminal here will be consolidated with the Minneapolis firm's terminal, located at St. John's Drive in St. John's Industrial Park in Sikeston, Mo.

A request to form a competitive swimming team at Central High School meets with guarded optimism -- much of that in light of current economic uncertainty -- from the Cape Girardeau Board of Education.

50 years ago: July 14, 1956

Completion of 10 huge storage silos at the new plant of the Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. plant is completed at 4 a.m., when the last load of concrete is hoisted to the top and distributed in the silo walls; it was slightly over five days from the start of the operation until its completion.

Building construction in Cape Girardeau continued at a high pace through June and brought the six-month declared value of new buildings to $4,746,465.

75 years ago: July 14, 1931

In the senatorial redistricting plan announced by Gov. H.S. Caulfield, Southeast Missouri counties would be in the 19th and 23rd districts; Cape Girardeau, Scott, Stoddard and Mississippi counties, Democratic in tendency, would be in the 23rd district.

M.J. Wragg, head of the Asphalt Production Co., which for several years has operated an amiesite plant in Cape Girardeau and who paved several streets here, reports that his company has just received from the state highway department its largest contract in Missouri; the contract is to coat part of Highway 61 between Mehlville and Luxemburg with asphaltic concrete.

100 years ago: July 14, 1906

The steamer the City of Memphis is scheduled to arrive at Cape Girardeau tomorrow morning with the First Regiment of the National Guard of Missouri and the light batteries of St. Louis and Kansas City; somewhere close to 700 men are expected to be on the boat; they will participate in the state encampment south of the city.

The Sunny South floating palace arrives at Cape Girardeau in the morning, its calliope blaring away; a little later, the showboat's band marches up the levee to Main Street, preceded by a "tally-ho" with four of the actresses, one of whom announces their approach on a trumpet.

-- Sharon K. Sanders