25 years ago: April 11, 1987

Declared congressional candidate Wayne Cryts of Puxico, Mo., whose court-ordered debt to the trustee of a bankrupt grain-storage company is growing, has turned over a gun collection to federal marshals in partial compliance with a writ of execution.

Longtime Cape Girardeau educator Dr. Cleo Mabrey has been named Outstanding Teacher Educator for 1987 by the Missouri Unit Association of Teacher Educators and Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

50 years ago: April 11, 1962

Improvements are in the making for two Cape Girardeau County roads: the Pecan Grove Road, running north from Highway 74 southwest of Cape Girardeau, and the Bainbridge Road from Route W to the Oriole Road, north of town; both roads will be widened considerably to a 24-foot width; they now range from 12 to 16 feet in width.

Monsignor Ignatius J. Strecker, chancellor of the Diocese of Wichita, Kan., is named the new bishop of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese; he will succeed Bishop Charles H. Helmsing, now bishop of the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese.

75 years ago: April 11, 1937

The building of a power line from Grand Tower, Ill., into Cape Girardeau has progressed as far as the New Wells community, proceeding southward; the Missouri General Utilities Co. is having the high line strung from Altenburg, Mo., to New Wells and Shawneetown.

Paul Lueders, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Lueders of Cape Girardeau, goes to Ste. Genevieve, Mo., to take over the Vincent Dunker art studio, under a lease; Dunker, who formerly had a photography shop in the Cahoon Building here, is to devote his time to the manufacture of cameras in Ste. Genevieve.

100 years ago: April 11, 1912

After finally becoming thoroughly disgusted with the filthy condition of the street, the business men and property owners on Broadway, between Fountain and Frederick streets, have signed a petition agreeing to clean the street each Tuesday and Friday morning; they have requested that the city haul off the refuse collected without delay.

A report is circulating that the East Cape Girardeau, Ill., levee has given way just north of Gale, Ill.; one report says the break was caused by dynamite.

-- Sharon K. Sanders