Out of the past 8/10/06

25 years ago: Aug. 10, 1981

Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce officials have announced that the hours for the chamber's information booth in front of the Holiday Inn have been extended to facilitate those interested in purchasing tickets for the SEMO District Fair; the booth, manned by college students, was opened in May to serve travelers interested in information on the Cape Girardeau area.

The former principal of the junior high school in Cairo, Ill., Dr. John W. Hunt, assumes his duties as new director of the University Schools on the Southeast Missouri State University campus.

50 years ago: Aug. 10, 1956

An electrical storm knocks out a few power lines in and near Cape Girardeau and brings rainfall measuring 1.74 inches as it drives in out of the northwest shortly after 6:30 a.m.; it is the second early morning storm in as many days.

As a result of a company expansion, the supervisory and accounting sections of the Gulf Oil Co. district office here are being moved to St. Louis; Walter Garvey, the local district manager, is being transferred to Chicago; because of this, he has had to sell the new home he was building at 1235 Sailer Circle to Glenn Walker.

75 years ago: Aug. 10, 1931

The big dredge machine of the W.E. Callahan Construction Co., working with a smaller machine in rebuilding the levee along the Diversion Channel of the Little River Drainage District, is now located four miles west of Highway 25 and southwest from Dutchtown; the large dredge is moving the present levee entirely at the place it is working, shoveling that dike up and setting it back some 300 feet.

Workers begin laying brick at the Missouri Utilities Co.'s new water plant at Cape Rock; work on the intake at the river is also going forward at a rapid pace.

100 years ago: Aug. 10, 1906

If the rain doesn't dome down in torrents tomorrow evening, Company K will take a practice march out the Scott County gravel road about five miles and camp out for the night; this march was to have been one of the features of the state encampment, but rain prevented it; about 20 men will make the trip.

Mrs. F.O. Wood of Pittsburg, Pa., is in Cape Girardeau, the guest of Mrs. Gus Pott; Mrs. Wood was formerly Miss Lavina Reynolds and made her home here.

-- Sharon K. Sanders