Out of the past 7/15/10

25 years ago: July 15, 1985

A home health care agency, operated by Beverly Enterprises for the past three years, is transferred to Southeast Missouri Hospital; it will be operated under the name Cape Girardeau Nursing Center Home Health Agency.

City manager Gary A. Eide says construction of a new Independence Street bridge should begin this fall; the bridge project is part of an overall plan to widen Independence between Kingshighway and East Rodney Drive.

50 years ago: July 15, 1960

Cape Girardeau has been granted an extension of five or six months in which to hold an election to approve a proposed sewage disposal system; the extension came yesterday during a conference in Jefferson City of Mayor Walter H. Ford and city attorney Raymond H. Vogel with representatives of the Water Pollution Board.

Plans for the development of about nine acres of the 14-acre Popp tract adjacent to the Town Plaza Shopping Center into commercial outlets, with retail stores as one part of the project, are announced by John W. Popp; the tract fronts on Independence Street and extends southward.

75 years ago: July 15, 1935

It is learned at least some of the 230 recruits to be stationed at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp near Delta will arrive here this week, possibly late Wednesday.

Taking definitive steps to regulate traffic, the Cape Girardeau City Council orders police chief E.W. Hirsch to make a special effort to stop speeding and reckless driving, and "under no circumstances let a drunk driver get by without being arrested and jailed."

100 years ago: July 15, 1910

The Moothart Business College company, a corporation organized under Missouri laws, has decided to make its school in Cape Girardeau equal to the best; attendance of the school has grown so large during the last year that more rooms will be required; the school will occupy the entire third floor of the fine building being constructed on the corner of Broadway and Spanish.

Pape Brothers has been contracted to do the carpentry work at Lorimier School, while W.J. Lee will do the plumbing work there; once completed, the high school will be moved from the Broadway building to Lorimier, beginning with the next term.

-- Sharon K. Sanders