Out of the past 8/28/09

25 years ago: Aug. 28, 1984

CAIRO, Ill. -- The Red Wood Lounge at the intersection of highways 3 and 127, 12 miles north of here, is destroyed in an early morning fire; no one is hurt in the blaze.

Grace Hoover, chairwoman of the Department of Home Economics at Southeast Missouri State University, presents the department's "Outstanding Alumna" award to Aleta McDowell Crawford; Crawford graduated from Southeast in 1944, and her career took her to Brazil; she now lives on a farm in Bollinger County.

50 years ago: Aug. 28, 1959

Response has been excellent to a request by State College for funds to provide scholarships for young men and women who otherwise might not be able to attend college; president Mark F. Scully reports business firms and service organizations in the area have contributed funds for 52 scholarships.

Max Branovan, a Wisconsin retailer of safety shoes, recently placed an order with the International Shoe Co. for 36,000 pairs; the Cape Girardeau plant is one of two in Missouri manufacturing the Hy-Test Safety Shoes.

75 years ago: Aug. 28, 1934

Most of the shipping of the drought cattle from Cape Girardeau County will be finished this week; already 729 head have been sent from county farms, including another carload being shipped from Jackson today.

Missouri Utilities Co. workers are sealing over more of the trolley rails, working most of the day along lower Broadway; traffic is shut off blocks temporarily, while the work is done.

100 years ago: Aug. 28, 1909

Today's attendance at Jackson Homecomers is by far the heaviest of the week, there being about 8,000 people in the city taking in the sights and sports; in the latter category, a five-mile marathon race has three entries; the race is won by Phillip Pipkin of Farmington, Mo., followed by Joe Williams and Mel Taylor, both of Jackson.

The rock products plant on the limestone bluffs at Grays Point should be in operation next week; this is the plant which absorbed the Himmelberger and Hely quarry plants.

-- Sharon K. Sanders