Out of the past 7/29/08

25 years ago: July 29, 1983

Officers for Southeast Missouri's new Private Industry Council, which will oversee the implementation of the new federal Job Training Partnership Act, were chosen at a meeting in Cape Girardeau yesterday; Ron Miller of the Procter & Gamble plant here was elected chairman of the PIC; other officers elected were Tim Lambert, vice chairman; Al Sullivan, secretary, and Jerry James, treasurer.

PERKINS, Mo. — About five cars on a Missouri Pacific freight train derail here; none of the cars overturns and no one is injured.

50 years ago: July 29, 1958

The gradual improvement of historic Common Pleas Courthouse, initiated two years ago when the brick exterior was sandblasted, was resumed yesterday when painters began scraping old paint from exterior window frames; the work includes painting of gutters and the front portico, but not the cupola atop the building.

LUTESVILLE, Mo. — The Lutesville post office has been moved to a brick building owned by the Tinnin estate, formerly known as the Day Bakery; it is next door to Seabaugh's shoe shop.

75 years ago: July 29, 1933

Acting upon the request of 66 retail grocers who met last night to discuss the recovery act, W.F.D. Batjer, NRA committee chairman, asks Mayor Edward L. Drum and the city council to rigidly enforce the Sunday closing ordinance in Cape Girardeau.

Electric light rates and power reductions of about 10 percent by the Jackson municipal power plant were ordered last night by the city council; domestic consumers using 100 kilowatt hours of electric current during a month will get a reduction of 1 cent per kilowatt hour.

100 years ago: July 29, 1908

Mrs. Ned Stewart, a young matron living at 507 S. Sprigg St., decides in the morning to try gliding about the earth and borrows a pair of skates from some neighborhood children; on her maiden journey, she travels several hundred yards before falling and breaking her arm.

Some parties are at Jackson explaining to wives the methods of cooking by electricity; it is something new there, but it is all right.

— Sharon K. Sanders