Out of the past 7/2/10

25 years ago: July 2, 1985

City manager Gary A. Eide says Cape Girardeau city employees will receive an across-the-board 5.6 percent increase in salaries for the 1985-1986 fiscal year, which began yesterday.

Christmas is coming early for the Scott City Police Department; the board of aldermen last night voted to pay officers for their unused compensation time they had built up over a period of several months; the board's action will cost the city's general revenue fund about $3,200.

50 years ago: July 2, 1960

An Explorer from Southeast Missouri may have the opportunity to go on an expedition to the Arctic, it is announced at headquarters of the Southeast Missouri Council of Boy Scouts; a local Scout between the ages of 17 and 19 will be nominated to serve as a junior scientific aide at Camp Century in Greenland next fall and winter.

Twelve permits for new buildings were issued by the city of Cape Girardeau during the past week, with a declared value of $118,352; among them was a permit for a one-story masonry building to be used as a drive-in facility of First National Bank, 222 N. Pacific St.

75 years ago: July 2, 1935

E.P. Lampkin, 70, a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1923, president of Kelso Oil Co. in Cape Girardeau, and for many years connected with civic and commercial activities in St. Louis and the state, died at midnight in a Cape Girardeau hospital.

Representing six counties, including Cape Girardeau, 378 young men are mustered in for Civilian Conservation Corps service for a period of 6 months by Army officers at the armory on Broadway; the men will be stationed at Bowling Green and Troy, Mo.,; Leavenworth, Kansas, and a point in Arkansas.

100 years ago: July 2, 1910

The officers and non-commissioned officers of Company F of Jackson and Company K of Cape Girardeau leave on the afternoon Frisco for St. Louis, from which place they will go to Nevada, Mo., for the annual encampment; they will be joined en route by the companies from Perryville and Ste. Genevieve, Mo.

Edna and Illmo are moving right along in the march of progress; they are organizing a building and loan association, putting in a sewer system, have several baseball teams, have a medicinal spring, and are doing lots of building and improving.

-- Sharon K. Sanders