Out of the past 7/22/11

25 years ago: July 22, 1986

A Carterville, Ill., waste-disposal firm has once again proposed building a transfer station here where garbage could be compacted and then hauled to a regional landfill; Allen Waste Management first proposed the station in May.

Cape Girardeau councilman David Barklage has been appointed to the Missouri Municipal League's Standing Committee on Finance and Taxation.

50 years ago: July 22, 1961

Establishment of a Southeast Missouri State College Development Corp., with the power to borrow money or sell bonds for acquisition of property for expansion, has been given tentative approval by the State College Board of Regents; Dr. Mark F. Scully, president, is enthusiastic about the program.

Twenty-five years of service with the company was recognized by Montgomery Ward and Co., when a watch was presented David A. Graves, manager of the Cape Girardeau store, at a dinner meeting this week.

75 years ago: July 22, 1936

City counselor R.P. Smith says the state's attorney general has held valid the proposed method of raising money through an occupational tax on gross sales; the scheme to increase city revenue will be discussed at a mass meeting of merchants this evening.

William Hirth, farmer-editor candidate for the Democratic nomination for Missouri governor, speaks to a crowd of between 1,000 and 1,500 people at Courthouse Park in the evening; the stormy Columbian's outbursts against the Pendergast machine bring frequent applause.

100 years ago: July 22, 1911

The War Department recently presented an old cannon to the city of Jackson to ornament the public square; it was unloaded in front of the courthouse several weeks ago but so far hasn't been mounted; it is an everyday occurrence to see men and boys standing around the big gun, trying their strength in lifting one end of it.

On its first two trips this morning, the ferryboat brings over six and eight wagons, respectively, with corn and potatoes; a large number of passengers are also brought over to shop; one man with about five dozen spring chickens in a coop sells them all without leaving the levee.

-- Sharon K. Sanders