Out of the past 9/21/10

25 years ago: Sept. 21, 1985

The Golden Eagles Marching Band at Southeast Missouri State University shows off its brand new "plumage" at the season's first home football game at Houck Stadium; members' new uniforms are red and gold; instead of incorporating an eagle on the uniform, they instead use an eagle's perch, the dome of Academic Hall.

Home Savings of America, the second-largest federally chartered savings and loan association in the nation, plans to open a branch office in Cape Girardeau.

50 years ago: Sept. 21, 1960

Missouri Utilities workers lay conduits for four mercury vapor lights and pouring of a sidewalk is to follow as construction work on the new South Main Street parking lot nears completion; city employees yesterday finished pouring the final lane of pavement in the lot.

Edward G. Farmer, the Republican gubernatorial candidate, was in Cape Girardeau yesterday, speaking to a group of GOP at a luncheon at the Marquette Hotel.

75 years ago: Sept. 21, 1935

Ransacking 13 offices in the Himmelberger-Harrison office building this morning, burglars blow a safe in one, but in that attempt and in other offices obtain loot of little value; the safe in the Public Loan Corp. office isn't opened as the charge, evidently nitroglycerine fails to tear open the door.

More than 200 men are employed by the M.E. Leming Lumber Co. mills in south Cape Girardeau, as it manufactures and delivers between 450,000 and 500,000 board feet of lumber per week to supply the federal government and contractors with lumber for construction work along the Mississippi River and its tributaries.

100 years ago: Sept. 21, 1910

The Crescent Roller Rink on South Spanish Street will open Saturday for the season; S. Ed Blumer, the original skating rink man of Cape Girardeau, will open the Crescent afternoon and nights, except on Sundays.

The Rev. J.J. Martin, from De Paul University at Chicago, arrives on the noon Frisco train to begin his administration as president of St. Vincent's College; he succeeds the Rev. E.A. Antill, who will take charge of a school in California.

-- Sharon K. Sanders