Out of the past 7/10/08

25 years ago: July 10, 1983

Natalie and Benjamin Rubin of Florissant, Mo., are guest speakers at New Life Fellowship in the morning; they minister at Foursquare Gospel Church in the evening.

Downtown Cape Girardeau will soon have a cafeteria; Vince Chase, owner and operator of The Chase House, 239 N. Middle St., has leased, with option to buy, a building at 15 N. Main St., from Charles Turnery; he is renovating the structure for a sizeable cafeteria-type restaurant.

50 years ago: July 10, 1958

Trail of Tears State Park, the 3,000-acre, $150,000 gift of the people of Cape Girardeau County to the people of Missouri, is beginning to take shape; Clarence Schilling, park superintendent, says the camping area near Moccasin Springs should be ready for occupancy by October.

The State Highway Department at Jefferson City announces it will take bids July 31 on a proposal to widen and resurface U.S. 61 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson; the road will be widened to 24 feet from the present 20 feet; asphaltic concrete will be applied on the entire roadway.

75 years ago: July 10, 1933

John F. Winn announces he has purchased Mickey's Confectionery, 900 Broadway from Iverson Michie; Michie has run the place for nearly 7 years, having purchased it from R.B. Baker.

Proprietors of the Hodge Bros. Roller Rink, a dance pavilion on the west side of Sprigg Street and just north of Independence Street, say that the place will continue to operate at least the first four days of this week and possibly longer; the rink, which was ordered closed by the city council last week, was given permission to complete a previously arranged schedule.

100 years ago: July 10, 1908

After spending more than 20 years writing a history of Missouri, Louis Houck sees the realization of his great task; the first shipment of the books is received in the morning; the history is in three volumes, bound in the finest cloth and printed and illustrated as finely as money could be procured.

Representatives of an art metal company of Chicago are in Jackson installing the fixtures in the various offices of the new courthouse.

— Sharon K. Sanders