Out of the past 9/29/08

25 years ago: Sept. 29, 1983

As part of a cooperative project between the Cape Girardeau County government and the Center for Regional History and Cultural Heritage at Southeast Missouri State University, about 350,000 pages of county records, some dating back to 1804, will be preserved on microfilm.

Former Missouri highway patrolman and U.S. Treasury Department agent Dwight Thomas, 51, of Cape Girardeau, confirms he will be a Republican candidate for county sheriff in 1984.

50 years ago: Sept. 29, 1958

A.S. Duckworth of Cape Girardeau, who since 1926 has been curator of the museum at State College, dies in the morning at age 95; he is survived by his wife, the former Lottie Boutin; a daughter, two sons, six grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

A tragedy which resulted in the drowning of a girl Saturday in the Diversion Channel near Allenville, Mo., also brings the death of her mother, Mrs. George Reeves, who nearly drowned at the time but put up a fight for almost 60 hours.

75 years ago: Sept. 29, 1933

The Cape Girardeau City Council has ordered city engineer E.L. Sailer to prepare plans, specifications and estimates of cost for a proposed storm sewer in the business districts; Sailer made an off-hand estimate that the project will cost about $150,000.

According to findings of a census of transients taken in Cape Girardeau by Capt. Ernest Orchard of the Salvation Army, there were 88 homeless people here during one day, Wednesday; the census was made throughout the state that day.

100 years ago: Sept. 29, 1908

John Edmonds, a gentleman appearing to be about 50 years old, is in Cape Girardeau looking around with the intention of establishing a daily newspaper here, if he finds that there is room and need for another one in addition to The Daily Republican; it may be that a strong Democratic daily will soon make its appearance.

The Riverview Hotel, the most famous public house in Cape Girardeau, is to be started on a new period of prosperity, if the plans of Dr. H. Megrath of Villa Grove, Ill., pan out; he has completed arrangements to take charge of the place.

— Sharon K. Sanders