25 years ago: March 22, 1985

The Golden Eagles Marching Band at Southeast Missouri State University is getting new "plumage"; the regents have authorized $60,573.16 for the purchase of new band uniforms.

Site preparation is nearing completion and construction will begin soon on two major west side projects, the Cape Girardeau Hampton Inn and a Perkins Restaurant; both will occupy an area to the north and west of the Holiday Inn near the intersection of Interstate 55 and Route K.

50 years ago: March 22, 1960

A proposal for the marking of the Indian trials in the Trail of Tears State Park and has received the endorsement of the Shawnee Boy Scout District; the Cape Girardeau County Historical Society has asked the Order of the Arrow to trace the trails.

Incumbent Walter H. Ford and W.E. Walker Jr. outdistance Thaddeus Bullock in the city primary election for mayor; they'll face off in the general election April 5; also surviving the primary are city commissioner candidates J.W. McBride, John Hayden, John L. Wieser, Max G. Stovall, U.G. Pettigrew, Edgar P. Bock, O.E. Zimmerman and Ernest Niswonger.

75 years ago: March 22, 1935

Pinned beneath an inverted airplane when it crashed in a muddy wheat field near Malden, Mo., late yesterday, two Sikeston, Mo., men were seriously injured; they are Leonard McMullin, 43, former Scott County judge, a farmer and veteran airplane pilot, and Granville J. Phillips, 38, chief maintenance engineer for the State Highway Department in Division 10.

City Commissioner Frank Batchelor is in favor of beautifying Fairground Park; with $55,000 in the city coffers, Bachelor believes "everything will come out all right, and we have no fear of running deeply into debt" paying for the planting of shrubs and flowers.

100 years ago: March 22, 1910

The Cape Girardeau City Council last night decided to aid in building the bridge over Sloan's Creek for the benefit of those living north of the city; the expense will be borne by the city, the county and the taxpayers of the vicinity.

Two elders of the Church of Latter-day Saints are in Cape Girardeau, resting up a few days; they have been holding meetings down through Scott County and the southern part of Cape Girardeau County.

-- Sharon K. Sanders