Out of the past 11/17/04

25 years ago: Nov. 17, 1979

In less than a month, Cape Girardeau County Court plans to begin discussing next year's operating budget; this coming year, the county can expect to receive increased revenue of about $700,000 from sales tax revenue after property taxes have been reduced, and $118,516 in state gasoline tax revenue as a result of passage of Amendment 2.

Cape Girardeau County may be one of 15 counties statewide that will be "mapped" this coming spring in preparation for property tax reassessment, says county Auditor H. Weldon Macke.

50 years ago: Nov. 17, 1954

The Corps of Engineers is ready to construct a levee along the Mississippi River to protect Cape Girardeau's low riverfront area whenever funds are made available by Congress, representatives of the city's two levee districts were told yesterday.

Custodians at the county courthouse are using a leaf mulcher to rid the courthouse lawn of the many leaves that have fallen in the last 10 days; the attachment is a part of the power mower and reduces dry leaves to dust, which is left on the grass.

75 years ago: Nov. 17, 1929

The official opening of the Jackson outpost of the Salvation Army under the direction of the Cape Girardeau corps takes place in the evening at Jackson.

Within less than a week, laying of brick on the new Christ Evangelical Church at Merriwether and South Ellis streets will be completed and most of the roof will be constructed; the congregation is looking forward to completing its building within another two months.

100 years ago: Nov. 17, 1904

The Ladies' Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church in Jackson is holding its fourth annual chrysanthemum show in the armory there; aside from the usual show of flowers is a baby show in the afternoon and a play in the evening by the young folks of the church titled, "Don't Borrow the Baby."

M.E. Leming, president, and A.R. Ponder, manager of the brick mill, went to Illmo yesterday in the interest of their rapidly growing industry; while there they sold 250,000 bricks for a new shop for the Cotton Belt and 250,000 for a new station of the same road at Pine Bluff, Ark.

-- Sharon K. Sanders