Out of the past 8/24/09

25 years ago: Aug. 24, 1984

Cape Girardeau residents will vote on whether the city should hold a special election to decide if the multipurpose building will be on property owned by Southeast Missouri State University; the city council votes 5-1 to place the issue of whether voters wish to hold an election on the site question posed by a citizens group on the Nov. 6 ballot.

Southeast Missouri State University students are returning to campus, laden with all those things that make dormitory rooms seem more like home; about 3,100 students will live in residence halls this term.

50 years ago: Aug. 24, 1959

Both of Cape Girardeau's banks -- First National and Farmers & Merchants -- have filed applications with the State Department of Finance to establish walk-up or drive-up facilities for limited banking purposes under a law passed by the General Assembly.

Campster School on Bloomfield Road will have its first full day of classes Aug. 31; about 23 students will attend the school this year.

75 years ago: Aug. 24, 1934

More than 200 Boy Scouts of the district served by the Southeast Missouri Area Council are expected to arrive Sunday afternoon to begin a four-day camporee at Cape Rock Park.

Purchase of the Excelsior Furniture & Music Co., 533 Broadway, by a newly organized corporation of five men is announced; the deal provides that Charles W. and E.J. Bauerle, Henry Kimmich, Robert Bauer and William Vedder take over all of the assets of the firm; the interest of William Heubel was purchased outright, and most of the stock owned by Vedder was absorbed in the purchase.

100 years ago: Aug. 24, 1909

The Illinois Central will soon open up its line from McClure to East Cape Girardeau, Ill., and carry passengers to and from Cape Girardeau; Al Jaynes, one of the owners of the ferryboat Warsaw, has been asked to give the railroad a figure on carrying passengers, baggage and freight across the river between Cape Girardeau and East Cape Girardeau.

Jeweler Hugo Kay is moving into his new place on upper Broadway; Kay has built a nice, two-story brick building, which he will occupy, with his business downstairs and his residence upstairs.

-- Sharon K. Sanders