Out of the past 8/29/07

25 years ago: Aug. 29, 1982

Centenary United Methodist Church has announced the addition of Dr. Ivan H. Nothdurft to its ministerial staff; he will be associate minister for education and evangelization.

Construction is to begin immediately on the first of three phases of the Silver Springs Shopping Complex, to be built on the east side of Silver Springs Road; a project of the Drury Development Corp., the first phase provides for a building 240 feet long and 100 feet in depth; it will house a number of shops and service areas; total square footage of all three phases will likely be around 185,000 square feet.

50 years ago: Aug. 29, 1957

Burglars enter two business buildings at 5 and 7 S. Spanish St. early in the morning, stealing a quantity of beer at the Edgewater Bar and evidently going away empty-handed from Preston Neon Sign Co.

In the past 10 years, dating from the passage of the first airport bond election in 1947, Cape Girardeau voters have approved the issuance of $2,094,000 in bonds to pay for a substantial list of municipal and school bonds; during that time, only one of seven bond proposals was rejected.

75 years ago: Aug. 29, 1932

Police, county and federal officers, in a series of weekend raids in Cape Girardeau, confiscated 230 pints of homebrew beer, 12 1/2 gallons of whiskey, nine quarts of gin and two pints of wine, and arrested three men and a woman; three places were raided.

Paving of Bloomfield Road, from near Highway 61 to the Boulevard, was completed late Saturday by contractor E.L. Markham; after about 10 days, a crew will be put to work smoothing off the shoulders of the new street.

100 years ago: Aug. 29, 1907

The circus war is on properly in Cape Girardeau; Cole Brothers Circus has a force of bill posters in the city, plastering every available space with gaudy posters and banners announcing the coming of the circus Sept. 16; Forpaugh-Sells Circus has its second squad of opposition men here as well, hunting up space that isn't yet covered with the Cole Circus' advertising material.

R.L. Wilson and family return in the evening from a six-week vacation trip to Colorado.

-- Sharon K. Sanders