Out of the past 9/16/08

25 years ago: Sept. 16, 1983

The change to two-way traffic on Broadway moves ahead with the installation of traffic signals at the intersections of Sprigg and Pacific streets; the work is being done by Mac and Son Electric Inc. of Cape Girardeau.

CAIRO, Ill. — Officials of the Cairo Association of Teachers have rejected what Cairo superintendent Ed Armstrong has referred to as the school board's "last, best offer," setting up a possible strike by teachers if no progress is made in new negotiations.

50 years ago: Sept. 16, 1958

While today had been set as the date when the last Frisco night passenger trains would be operated through Cape Girardeau between St. Louis and Memphis, Tenn., the morning trains go through as normal.

The stately, 52-year-old L.B. Houck residence on College Hill will be the first building to be razed under a State College dormitory construction program; not long afterward, Albert Hall will fall before a demolition crew; its demise will be followed by another fine old home on College Hill, built by the late mayor and postmaster, H.H. Haas.

75 years ago: Sept. 16, 1933

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Sam A. Baker, Republican governor of Missouri from 1925 to 1929, dies at his home here; Baker developed his taste for public life in a literary-debating society in the Cape Girardeau State Normal School.

Launched by George Munger of Bloomfield, Mo., a member of the Teachers College Board of Regents, a movement is underway to have the college preserve relics of great historical interest to the district; the liquidating agent for Sturdivant Bank has agreed to donate a portrait of Col. Robert Sturdivant, an old iron safe used by the bank and a number of old bank records to the college museum.

100 years ago: Sept. 16, 1908

The new motor car on the Houck railroad didn't attract the attention that the first one did; however, it carried the people in droves to the circus Monday from Jackson; the two cars did a heavy business throughout the day.

Henry D. Brase and son of near Dutchtown are in Cape Girardeau on business, taking home a wagonload of brick and cement for construction of a new cistern.

— Sharon K. Sanders