25 years ago: June 20, 1982

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- The Rev. C.E. Fleshman of Cape Girardeau has accepted the pastorate of the First Freewill Baptist Church here; he has pastored churches in Cape Girardeau for 15 years.

Two Greenville, S.C., women escape injury in the morning when the landing gear on the small plane they are flying breaks off upon landing at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport; the pilot decides to land her plane here after the aircraft develops electrical problems.

50 years ago: June 20, 1957

The Cape Girardeau Medical Society makes plans for a free smallpox vaccination clinic Saturday at the Arena Building, after the diagnosis of a case of smallpox in Cape Girardeau; doctors and nurses in the county will give their time without charge, and the state will supply the vaccine for those who wish to be vaccinated Saturday.

Three men or youths, attempting to break into the City Walgreen drug store, 46 N. Main St., in Cape Girardeau, are surprised by Sam Tucker, merchants' watchman and are scared away.

75 years ago: June 20, 1932

Some further relief from dry weather comes to Cape Girardeau in a rainstorm of short duration, amounting to 34/100ths of an inch; little relief, however, is felt from the heat.

Mr. and Mrs. S.D. MacFarland, 6 S. Fountain St., and Mrs. R.B. Oliver Jr., 730 N. Pacific St., in Cape Girardeau, are preparing to leave for New York, where they will sail for Europe; the trio will visit Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Germany, France and London, returning about Sept. 1.

100 years ago: June 20, 1907

Gov. J. Frank Hanly of Indiana arrives from St. Louis at noon to lecture at the Normal School in the evening; in the afternoon he is taken for a drive through Cape Girardeau by a number of Republicans, who desire to show him a little of the town while here.

I.R. Kelso, the attorney for all Southeast Missouri, was greatly honored yesterday by the state convention of Christian church delegates at Sedalia, Mo., by being elected president for the ensuing year.

-- Sharon K. Sanders