Out of the past 9/23/05

25 years ago: Sept. 23, 1980

A Cape Girardeau youth is being charged with leaving the scene of an accident in connection with the death of Randall G. Todd, 18, who has been identified as the youth who was struck and run over by a vehicle and his body dragged into a ditch along old Highway 61 south of Cape Girardeau Saturday.

The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents will be asked later this week to approve a record $26.8 million operating budget request for the school's 1982 fiscal year, which begins next summer.

50 years ago: Sept. 23, 1955

Rush H. Limbaugh, for 39 years a member of the Cape Girardeau bar, has been elected president of the Missouri Bar by members of the board of governors during preliminaries to the bar's two-day annual convention in Kansas City.

An area encompassed in a rectangular shape, and including within it 10 houses or other buildings, will be acquired by the North Main Street Levee Improvement District to provide right of way for the relocation of Sloan's Creek and the construction of a protective earthen levee, plans for the project show

75 years ago: Sept. 23, 1930

The two-week special session of federal court that concluded last weekend cost the government approximately $5,000; pay for members of the jury, including traveling expenses, amounted to more than $2,000, while witnesses received another $500.

Contract for the construction of the first farm-to-market road in Cape Girardeau County, that from Dutchtown toward Whitewater, will be let by the Missouri Highway Department in October, Judge James A. Kinder of the county court has been advised; the road will be of gravel construction.

100 years ago: Sept. 23, 1905

Fire yesterday destroyed the home of F.R. Rosenbaum on Broadway west of the fairgrounds, and all the household furnishings were lost; Rosenbaum manufactures and sells a stock food; the house belonged to F.A. Kage and was very old.

D.A. Glenn returned from St. Louis last night, where he spent several days trying to secure a prominent speaker to deliver the address at the opening of the new clubhouse at the fairgrounds; it was first thought that Congressman Richard Bartholdt would make a fine speaker, but he is out of the country; now an effort is being made to get either D.R. Francis, Harry B. Hawes or Cyrus P. Walbridge.

-- Sharon K. Sanders