Out of the past 8/13/05

25 years ago: Aug. 13, 1980

The continuing heat wave is prolonging summer vacation for students in the Illmo-Scott City and Woodland school districts, whose boards of education this week decided to postpone the start of classes; most other Southeast Missouri schools intend to open on schedule.

Dr. Harold O. Grauel, professor emeritus of English at Southeast Missouri State University, has been honored as a Missouri Pioneer in Education.

50 years ago: Aug. 13, 1955

Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. announced that the second plant will be erected in Cape Girardeau between the present plant and the Mississippi River; included in the improvement program will be cement storage and new bulk-loading facilities at the river dock.

Their annual two weeks of intensive military training completed, the 1,995 officers and men of Southeast Missouri, members of the 140th Infantry Regiment of the Missouri National Guard, return home from Camp McCoy, Wis.

75 years ago: Aug. 13, 1930

Letters are going out to the large landowners and mortgagees in the Little River Drainage District, urging them to pay up their delinquent taxes on lands in that district so the money will be available for maintenance and repairs to the district.

The application of the city of Cape Girardeau in the matter of the Missouri Pacific Lines unification plan, asking that the Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad be made a part of this plan, has been denied by the Interstate Commerce Commission; shortly after this was known, Judge O.A. Knehans in Common Pleas Court made an order authorizing George W. Cross, receiver for the Cape Girardeau Northern, to sell the steel rails on the abandoned line between Jackson and Perryville.

100 years ago: Aug. 13, 1905

A new place of worship for the people of Salem, better known as Umbeck, will be provided this fall; at a recent meeting of the congregation of the German Evangelical Salem Church, of which the Rev. J.C. Jaech is pastor, it was decided to replace the present structure with a new and better one; the present church is close to the Benton Road, about six miles northwest of Cape Girardeau.

The Rev. J.M. England of Oran, Mo., occupies the pulpit at the English Methodist Church in the morning; in the evening, the Rev. Olin Boggess preaches the third sermon of a series on the Bible.

-- Sharon K. Sanders