Out of the past 9/16/11

25 years ago: Sept. 16, 1986

MARBLE HILL, MO. -- Voters in the newly combined town of Marble Hill will be electing leaders in November who will plot the course of the new city; seeking the post of mayor will be Shirley Illers Cooper and Omer J. Shell Jr.

Former Scott City councilman Shirley Young was appointed by Mayor Alvie Modglin to the Ward 3 seat last night; Young lost that seat to Randy Brant on April 1, but he resigned the council post last month to take a job in Texas.

50 years ago: Sept. 16, 1961

Two Gerhardt companies of Cape Girardeau -- Gerhardt Construction Co. and B.J. Gerhardt Contracting Co., which have been given the contract for the large Wetterau Foods building at Scott City -- are set to do preliminary site work next week; completion of the wholesale plant is planned for late next spring.

Back for a second performance, the Trans-World Auto Daredevils perform in front of the grandstand at the SEMO District Fair; in addition, the audience is awed by "Bettina" -- Betty Boatright of Hayti, Mo. -- who performs on a sway pole 110 feet in the air.

75 years ago: Sept. 16, 1936

Police chief Herbert F. Wickham and Mayor Charles G. Wilson yesterday met with the heads of the nine taxicab companies operating in Cape Girardeau, telling them to curb their drivers; in particular, a warning was sounded about the excessive speed of vehicles in school zones.

Work has been started on the razing of a frame building in the rear of Rueseler Motor Co., 230 N. Fountain St., that was owned by W.H. Vogel and occupied by the Cape Sheet & Metal Works; A.P. Rueseler, who recently bought the structure, is expanding the Rueseler building.

100 years ago: Sept. 16, 1911

I.R. Kelso of Cape Girardeau and others file a petition in the circuit court of Butler County asking for incorporation of the Butler County levee district; they are asking for the creation of a district of land between the Romaine Hills and the "Cat" railroad.

Lige Swallows of Puxico, Mo., has bought the Foeste Transfer Co. business of Cape Girardeau; Swallows has been in the drayage business the past 20 years; he will locate here with his family of four children.

-- Sharon K. Sanders