10 years ago: April 24, 1994

Southeast Missouri State University sophomore Stephen S. Owen leads morning services at Grace United Methodist Church.

Prevailing-wage dispute over Towers renovation project has been resolved, with Missouri Division of Labor Standards issuing wage determination that will add estimated $10,000 to $15,000 to construction costs.

25 years ago: April 24, 1979

Entire brickwork on Cape Girardeau office building vandalized with creosote will have to be replaced.

Repair work along Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks on Independence is being planned by railroad work crews, but MoPac officials explain recent flood damage to company lines may postpone work here.

50 years ago: April 24, 1954

Old Burfordville mill, dam and 20 acres of farmland and timber at Burfordville are purchased by C.A. Vandivort of Cape Girardeau, who takes title in name of one of members of his family until corporation can be formed.

BENTON, Mo. --Three sows stolen Monday from farm of Cletus Scherer southeast of Benton are recovered at Bernie; Hampshire hogs had been taken to auction barn at Kennett, where they were sold.

75 years ago: April 24, 1929

Representatives from Little River Drainage District are in Memphis, Tenn., to ask Mississippi River Commission at public hearing to ask Mississippi River Commission at public hearing to increase its previously promised appropriation for strengthening of Diversion Channel levee south of Cape Girardeau.

J.A. Van Loon, sales manager, and Claude M. Sterling, pilot of Parks Aircraft Inc., of East St. Louis, Ill., largest air school in world, were in Cape Girardeau yesterday looking over sites suitable for landing field and airports.

-- Sharon K. Sanders