Out of the past 8/4/06

25 years ago: Aug. 4, 1981

The Jackson Board of Aldermen has taken a step toward placing the city's two savings and loans on a more equal footing with the two local banks in regard to depositing of city investment funds in financial institutions; the aldermen, by a 7-0 vote with one abstention, last night approved a motion calling for investment of city funds in all four institutions, with a $300,000 limit on the amount that can be deposited in each of the savings and loan.

A proposed $1.5 million bond issue to finance additions to three Jackson school buildings fails to receive the necessary two-thirds majority in a special election; school board officials put part of the blame on low voter turnout.

50 years ago: Aug. 4, 1956

Ground will be broken for a new $150,000 grade school for St. Vincent's Parish tomorrow afternoon, on a site at Ritter and Forest avenues across from the new Catholic High School.

There seems no doubt from the number of entries being made at sesquicentennial headquarters that Cape Girardeau will have one of the largest parades in city history Aug. 20; Dr. V. Paul Grisham, chairman of the parade committee, says entries are now in from 25 bands that will march, along with scores of floats.

75 years ago: Aug. 4, 1931

Finally disposing of the question of salaries of five county officials after the matter had been up in the air for several months, the county court yesterday ordered payment under the previous schedule.

Deputy sheriff C.C. Eddlemann is appointed constable of Cape Girardeau township by the county court; he succeeds E.R. Trickey, who resigned a week ago because of ill health.

100 years ago: Aug. 4, 1906

Haarig has a fine new drug store; H.C. Wasem, who has been conducting a little store that was opened by Dr. A.D. Blomeyer a year or more ago, has formed what is known as the Wasem Drug Co., and opened a new store in the building recently erected just east of the Farmers & Merchants Bank.

John Bartmann, one of the oldest and most respected residents of Cape Girardeau County, died at his home in Jackson Thursday; born in Germany 79 years ago, Bartmann came to Cape Girardeau while very young; for years he had a cooper shop on Pacific Street, near Broadway; about three years ago, he and his wife and daughter moved to Jackson so they could be near another daughter, the wife of Sheriff Ben Gockel.

-- Sharon K. Sanders