Out of the past 1/15/08

25 years ago: Jan. 15, 1983

Mary Hines of Cape Girardeau went into Capaha Park Lagoon yesterday to save 6-year-old Aaron L. Hirons from drowning after he ventured into the water; she and Kenny Casey, a Southeast Missouri State University student, carried the boy to Southeast Missouri Hospital, where an examination showed he was OK.

A third person has filed for a seat on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education; he is John M. Sarff, who is associated with the Folger's Coffee Division of Procter & Gamble.

50 years ago: Jan. 15, 1958

Work on the Mississippi River flood-control project at Cape Girardeau will be stopped for three or four months, said Col. C.B. Schweizer, engineer of the St. Louis District Corps of Engineers; a ceiling on expenditures for civil works has been ordered for the remainder of the fiscal year.

Two Girardeans came close to getting in on the hunt for a cougar or similar beast that has been seen prowling in the Bell City, Mo., area; Clarence Gosnell and John Hinze were rabbit hunting Sunday near Aquilla, Mo., when they spotted two sets of tracks almost as large as the palms of their hands.

75 years ago: Jan. 15, 1933

The Rt. Rev. Frederick F. Johnson, bishop of Missouri, and Dr. Karl M. Block, rector of St. Michael's and St. George's Church in St. Louis, speak at evening prayer at Christ Episcopal Church.

F.B. Baughn, pastor for three years at the Braggadocio (Mo.) Baptist Church, has moved to Oak Ridge and assumed his duties as pastor there; he is also serving as missionary for the Cape Girardeau Baptist Association.

100 years ago: Jan. 15, 1908

Tomorrow morning at 9, the Southeast Missouri Trust Co. will open its doors for business in its new home in the Himmelberger-Harrison Building; the trust company has built its home for the future as well as the present; the plan seems to have been to make the interior as magnificent as possible, without the least gaudiness.

The Bergmann-Bartels Mercantile Co. is moving into its big new store room; this will give the popular concern three large rooms for its constantly increasing business.

-- Sharon K. Sanders