Out of the past 8/27/05

25 years ago: Aug. 27, 1980

There aren't many university dormitories that have a swimming pool and rooms equipped with 19-inch color televisions, wall-to-wall carpet and private telephones; but those are the accommodations Southeast Missouri State University has provided this semester for 62 male freshmen at the Best Western Motel.

Circuit court judges Stanley A. Grimm, A.J. Seier and Marybelle Mueller, and the county court plan to file two separate briefs with the Missouri Supreme Court by Saturday outlining their objections to a petition before the court seeking to block the move of circuit court offices from Jackson to Cape Girardeau.

50 years ago: Aug. 27, 1955

Residents of the community of Old Appleton hope that means can be found to repair the old bridge over Apple Creek so it can be retained for use; no longer used by general traffic since Highway 61 was located upstream and a new span erected, the old bridge is mainly helpful to the residents of the town, which occupies both sides of the creek.

Bolstered by a high collection of licenses and merchants taxes, Cape Girardeau's general revenue fund showed a substantial increase in July, and a $23,340.02 balance was on hand at the end of the month.

75 years ago: Aug. 27, 1930

Henry L. Clay, 69, a farmer of near Oran, Mo., died last night at St. Francis Hospital from peritonitis, resulting from an injury suffered Aug. 17, when he was struck by a baseball bat while watching a game at Oran; Clay was a spectator and had been watching the game but a few minutes when a player lost control of his bat as he swung at the ball, the bat striking Clay in the abdomen.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- An ordinance prohibiting the operation of the miniature golf courses here on Sunday was passed by the city council recently; a committee of Chaffee ministers has since thanked the council for the action.

100 years ago: Aug. 27, 1905

The Rev. M.B. Chapman, D.D., preaches at the English Methodist Church in the morning; he is the presiding elder of the Charleston (Mo.) District; this is his last round of quarterly meetings before the session of the annual conference at Fredericktown, Mo., next month.

The launch Rose B., named for well-known Girardean Rose B. Brunkhorst, arrives from St. Louis; it was launched Friday in North St. Louis by brothers-in-law Eugene Wrenger and Fred Agne; the boat is 38 feet long and 6 feet wide.

-- Sharon K. Sanders