Out of the Past 3/31/09

25 years ago: March 31, 1984

A small gathering of Cape Girardeau County Republicans meets in Jackson and selects its delegates and alternates to the state and district caucuses; the 21 persons selected to attend the district caucus May 5 will nominate three people and three alternates to the National Convention and one presidential elector.

Missouri Gov. Kit Bond has confirmed he will attend the Cape Girardeau County Republican party's annual Lincoln Day Banquet next Saturday; the party's two 1984 Missouri gubernatorial candidates, Gene McNary and John Ashcroft, are also expected to attend.

50 years ago: March 31, 1959

First of several thousand people who will view the exhibits before the week's end file into Houck Field House for the opening of the third annual Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair; the fair this year has the largest entry list in its history, with 216 projects.

Workers of Penzel Construction Co. start tearing up the sidewalks on the west side of the county courthouse in Jackson; a new sidewalk will be poured there and at the north side of the lawn also; the street is partially closed because of the work.

75 years ago: March 31, 1934

County Civil Works Administration chairman R.L. Dearmont is advised by the state director to halt the civil works program in the county, putting 214 people out of work; unfinished projects may be taken up and pushed to a conclusion after April 9, but only those with families on relief rolls may be used.

Maj. Tedao Teragaki of the Imperial Japanese Army spent yesterday and today in Cape Girardeau, the guest of Col. and Mrs. A.A. Ebert; he is here as an exchange officer, studying U.S. Army methods.

100 years ago: March 31, 1909

Charles H. Golliher has resigned his position as postmaster at Moccasin Springs, a small town on the Mississippi River in the north end of Cape Girardeau County; it is said it has been recommended that the office be discontinued.

Victor T. Moberly of St. Louis, bank examiner, is in Cape Girardeau looking over the books of the various banks.

— Sharon K. Sanders