Out of the past 8/25/06

25 years ago: Aug. 25, 1981

Liquefied gas will be trucked here from Memphis, Tenn., to supply gas to Cape Girardeau and Scott City while Texas Eastern Pipeline Co. crews replace a valve in a transmission line Sept. 1, the Missouri Utilities Co. announces.

The Jackson Board of Education is refusing to take "no" for an answer on a proposed $1.5 million bond issue to finance additions to three Jackson school buildings that failed at a special election this month; the board decides to resubmit the proposal at another special election Nov. 3.

50 years ago: Aug. 25, 1956

Cape Girardeau's one-way traffic system, which was to have been extended on a trial basis under plans laid Friday, is abandoned this morning by the city council after a conference with a delegation of 48 business people from the Broadway and Good Hope districts protesting its effect on commerce.

Celebration of the city's sesquicentennial, a week of concentrated observance, comes to a close in the evening with the final presentation of the pageant, "The Legend of Cape Girardeau," and a blaze of fireworks; starting on Monday with the huge parade, the town's 150th birthday celebration has been an almost continuous event.

75 years ago: Aug. 25, 1931

Two huge, new dynamos are received by the Teachers College to be installed in the college power plant to replace generators which have been in service many years; the weight of the two units is 68,000 pounds, or 34 tons; they were shipped here from Oliveville, Ky.

The American Airways, a transcontinental airline, is negotiating for a tract of land near Delta, which will be made into an intermediate airport for the daily planes on the Chicago-to-New Orleans lines.

100 years ago: Aug. 25, 1906

Theodore Bauerle, the erstwhile drayman, has opened up a new feed store in Haarig; his place of business is next to the Good Hope drug store; Bauerle will keep on hand a line of hay, corn, oats, bran and shorts.

G.H. Meyer, the Haarig hardware man, will soon move into his new residence at the corner of Good Hope and Benton streets; it is a two-story brick structure, and it will be completed in a short time.

-- Sharon K. Sanders