Out of the past 8/14/05

25 years ago: Aug. 14, 1980

Cape Girardeau city officials, anticipating a request at the next city council meeting to extend the deadline for completion of the basic cable television system here, say they see little reason why such an extension shouldn't be granted.

Cape Girardeau County taxpayers will find their total tax bills reduced by $10 on the average this year as a result of a reduction in the county's general revenue property tax, according to county auditor H. Weldon Macke.

50 years ago: Aug. 14, 1955

The Rev. Wilbert H. Koenig, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church since Jan. 1, 1952, has submitted his resignation, which has been accepted "with great regret"; Koenig, who tendered his resignation for health reasons, has no immediate plans, but expects later to move his family to St. Louis.

The Rev. Arthur Clodfelter, assistant pastor of First Baptist Church, has resigned his position at the church effective Sept. 15 to move to Louisville, Ky., for graduate work in Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

75 years ago: Aug. 14, 1930

Awards totaling $25,334.45 on 617.63 acres of land in New Madrid County, taken by the federal government in construction of the set-back levee along the Mississippi River, are made in reports filed in federal court by Alphonse DeLisle, Hal Hunter and Ed McCord of New Madrid, Mo., commissioners appointed to assess damages on the condemned property.

The county court, county highway commission and State Highway Department are nearer a settlement with landowners relative to securing right of way for the farm-to-market road between Dutchtown and Whitewater, after a meeting of a committee of representatives of the three groups and interested residents of Whitewater and Dutchtown yesterday.

100 years ago: Aug. 14, 1905

A force of about 15 men are put to work tearing up Broadway shortly after noon by M.E. Leming and A.R. Ponder, who are building the new electric streetcar line; the old rails and ties are being removed, and the dirt cleared out for the new ties.

On the paid real estate advertising page of the St. Louis newspapers yesterday appeared an article in regard to Chaffee, Mo., the town which several St. Louis capitalists and probably some minor Frisco officials are booming, holding out promises that it will be made a division point on the Frisco with shops and other enterprises.

-- Sharon K. Sanders