Out of the past 1/12/06

25 years ago: Jan. 12, 1981

Filing date for candidates seeking two seats on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education will be established tomorrow night; seats currently held by Dr. C. John Ritter and Michael L. Richey, both three-year terms, expire this year; neither Ritter nor Richey has yet filed for re-election.

Dr. Janet Brunton Ruopp, sponsored by the Zonta Club of Cape Girardeau, was selected as this year's Outstanding Young Woman by the Cape Girardeau Jaycee Wives; other contestants were Mrs. Thomas M. Meyer, Mrs. Richard Griffith and Mrs. Joe Buerkle.

50 years ago: Jan. 12, 1956

The final 1955 highway patrol report on the traffic toll in the 14-county Southeast Missouri area shows that a record 150 people died during the period, and that both the number of accidents as well as the number of deaths were increased over 1954.

Stephen N. Limbaugh of Cape Girardeau files a declaration of candidacy on the Republican ticket to succeed himself as prosecuting attorney of Cape Girardeau County; Limbaugh is serving his first, two-year term.

75 years ago: Jan. 12, 1931

A definite offer for the removal of Will Mayfield College from Marble Hill, Mo., to Dexter, Mo., has been made to the board of trustees of the church school by the Dexter Chamber of Commerce; while the amount of financial assistance which would be given isn't divulged, it is reported that an inducement along this line was offered.

Cape Girardeau's two legislators, Sen. R.L. Dearmont and Rep. Rush H. Limbaugh, are back at Jefferson City, Mo., as the legislature resumes its sessions.

100 years ago: Jan. 12, 1906

The Commercial Club held an interesting business meeting last night, followed by a social; after plans for the new shoe factory were reviewed, a new business proposition was heard; A.E. Morley, representing the Southern Metal & Manufacturing Co. with headquarters in St. Louis, proposes to locate a big smelting and manufacturing plant here; Morley's plan is for the people of Cape Girardeau to subscribe $15,000 worth of the bonds for the factory and to furnish 20 acres of land as well.

Guy O. Miller, who came here some time ago to start a wheelbarrow and cart factory, returns to Cape Girardeau from Lansing, Mich., with T.H. Moore; together, they plan to build a factory just south of the soap plant which will employ about 25 men.

-- Sharon K. Sanders