25 years ago: Jan. 30, 1984

Cape Girardeau County Second District Judge J. Ronald Fischer files for re-election; he is the first person to file for the position and has been on the County Court since 1968.

The filing of Cape Girardeau businessman John M. Sarff has brought to five the number of persons seeking two seats on the school board; other candidates are incumbent Dr. Thomas Harte, the Rev. Claude Russell, Carolyn Kelley and Charles E. Weber.

50 years ago: Jan. 30, 1959

Construction of a new road to provide an additional entrance and exit from Arena Park seems probable following agreement among the city, District Fair Board and Cape Special Road District to share in the cost; the city owns a 60-foot right of way along the old Cape Girardeau Northern track route through the Chamber of Commerce industrial tract; it is planned to build the road along this route, connecting the south end of the park with Broadview Street.

An action was filed yesterday in Circuit Court in Jackson by the Girardot Investment Co. seeking foreclosure of a chattel mortgage on the Idan-Ha Hotel; Thomas O. McGee was appointed receiver by the court.

75 years ago: Jan. 30, 1934

The Cape Girardeau City Council yesterday passed a liquor control ordinance, assessing an annual license fee of $125 on all persons in the city who sell at retail intoxicating liquor in the package; the ordinance also fixes a fee of $25 per year for the sale of beer by the drink and one of $300 for the selling at wholesale of all kinds of intoxicating liquor.

City automobile license fees for 1934 were reduced from 10 to 30 percent yesterday in an ordinance passed by the Cape Girardeau City Council.

100 years ago: Jan. 30, 1909

The blizzard that has been sweeping the country the past two days has put the meeting of the Southeast Missouri Press Association nearly out of business; editors are unable to come here from most points in Southeast Missouri; E.G. Lewis of St. Louis, who was to speak tonight, is afraid to leave that city because of the storm.

There is a report out in Mill Town, in the south part of Cape Girardeau, that E.A. Nixon has bought the Southern Hotel and will take charge of it Monday.

— Sharon K. Sanders