Out of the past 7/26/06

25 years ago: July 26, 1981

Cape Business College, 1452 N. Kingshighway, is operating under new ownership; the school was recently purchased by George Holske of St. Louis from Karen Thompson, who will remain as active manager for the school.

OLMSTED, Ill. -- About 50 riot-equipped police officers disband a group of motorcycle club members and Ku Klux Klansmen on the Ohio River landing here in the evening, after local residents complain about fights at the gathering; members of the D.C. Eagles leave without incident, after they are ordered to clean up the area and move on or face arrest.

50 years ago: July 26, 1956

A thousand dollars worth of wooden nickels -- 20,000 of them -- go into Cape Girardeau trade channels; they are sold to local merchants as part of the sesquicentennial observance; merchants, in turn, will distribute them to customers in the form of change, if the customers want them as souvenirs.

A two-week program of basic and advanced individual and unit training awaits the 2,000 officers and men of the 140th Infantry Regiment of the Missouri National Guard at Camp Ripley in Minnesota; with three advanced elements already at camp or en route, the main body of personnel will depart Saturday by train from Southeast Missouri.

75 years ago: July 26, 1931

The Rev. Frederick Lorberg, a young Cape Girardeau minister, is ordained into the Lutheran ministry at special services in the morning at Trinity Lutheran Church; Lorberg is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin G. Lorberg of Cape Girardeau; he has already accepted a call to a church in Jacksonville, Fla.

The Rev. George L. Washburn, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Fruitland, preaches at the morning service at First Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau in the absence of the Rev. C.H. Morton.

100 years ago: July 26, 1906

The best wheat heard of so far this year is reported to Cape Girardeau in the morning by an old German farmer, Louis Blumberg, who lives one and one-half miles north of Allenville; he had 33 acres of wheat, which averaged about 22 bushels an acre; he sold his crop to the Whitewater Milling Co. at Whitewater.

Work on the new courthouse in Jackson is progressing; the foundations are finished, the cement work having been rushed to completion in order to permit the starting of work on the basement; the basement will be constructed out of blue stone found in the quarries near Jackson.

-- Sharon K. Sanders