Out of the past 9/29/06

25 years ago: Sept. 29, 1981

Bingo, a game long banned in Missouri, is now legal for certain organizations in the state; but the law permitting the game to be played is apparently so confusing and restricting that several groups in Cape Girardeau have been discouraged from applying for bingo licenses.

BENTON, Mo. -- Officials in Scott County are attempting to put together a public board to operate the North Scott County Ambulance Service, headquartered in Chaffee, Mo., following the unexpected resignation of the service's director, James C. Smith of Chaffee.

50 years ago: Sept. 29, 1956

River interests report traffic is moving normally up and down the Mississippi in spite of a stage of 6.6 feet at Cape Girardeau, one of the lowest for so early in the fall season in a number of years.

In twin announcements, the State College reports the acquisition of additional property adjacent to the campus as the site for future building and the retention of an architectural firm to design the three major buildings to be constructed under its share of the state's $75 million bond issue; options have been taken for the purchase of the L.B. Houck property at 936 College Hill Place, the lot immediately to the east and the H.H. Haas property at 920 College Hill Place.

75 years ago: Sept. 29, 1931

Construction of the first unit of the outer boulevard around Cape Girardeau is expected to begin within the next few days; the work will begin as soon as the steam dragline, now in use on the Bloomfield Road, southwest of the city, where a bridge over Cape LaCroix Creek is being built, is moved to near Cape Rock.

Organization of a corporation, the Federal Materials Co., embodying a consolidation of the Edward S. Hely Stone Co. of cape Girardeau and Ohio River Sand & Gravel Co. of Paducah, Ky., with headquarters in Cape Girardeau, is announced.

100 years ago: Sept. 29, 1906

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education lets the contract for the new public school building which will be built in the west end of the city; Vogelsang Brothers of Cape Girardeau are awarded the contract to build a two-story, brick school for $15,500.

The McKinley High School football team of St. Louis, which was to come to Cape Girardeau to play the Normal School team, is telegraphed not to come because of the rain; mud scows would have been necessary for the boys to have navigated about the gridiron.

-- Sharon K. Sanders