Out of the past 9/7/10

25 years ago: Sept. 7, 1985

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- A consolidation plan for the merger of Marble Hill and Lutesville, Mo., will be on the Nov. 5 ballot in both communities; the plan for the towns was submitted to the Bollinger County clerk Thursday.

A respected artist and longtime Southeast Missouri State University faculty member, Jake Wells has been selected to receive the 1985 Southeast Missouri State University Alumni Merit Award.

50 years ago: Sept. 7, 1960

Mayor Walter H. Ford and city attorney Raymond H. Vogel travel to St. Louis to confer with the law firm of Charles and Trauernicht on means of financing the proposed sewage disposal system ordered installed in Cape Girardeau by state and federal health authorities.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The State Banking Board unanimously approves the transfer of the Bank of Gordonville to serve western Cape Girardeau.

75 years ago: Sept. 7, 1935

Applications for Works Progress Administration funds to construct a road from Cape Girardeau along the Mississippi River to Illmo and to build an annex to the Cape Girardeau Public Library were among the last projects submitted to the WPA before yesterday's filing deadline.

Using 1930 census figures, it is estimated there are 443 people in Cape Girardeau County who are eligible to receive an old-age pension from the state.

100 years ago: Sept. 7, 1910

The Southeast Missouri Motor Car Co., a stock company that has been selling automobiles in Charleston, Mo., and throughout this territory, has purchased the Cape Auto Co., just west of The Republican offices on Broadway.

Mary Davis, stenographer at the First National Bank, is away on vacation; she will visit her parents in Poplar Bluff, Mo., and later friends in Kansas City.

-- Sharon K. Sanders