Out of the past 10/8/10

25 years ago: Oct. 8, 1985

The long-term future of the state's property tax is the issue at a Joint Committee on Ad Valorem Taxation hearing in Cape Girardeau; the hearings, being held across the state, are an outgrowth of the reassessment process.

The first concrete for the $16.5 million city/university multipurpose building is poured; Cape Ready Mix Co. is pouring the concrete footings for the building's west foundation.

50 years ago: Oct. 8, 1960

Formal purchase of about 1,100 acres in the Diversion Channel-airport area south of Cape Girardeau was completed this week by the Armstrong Cork Co.; the company has made no announcement as to ultimate plans for development of the property.

A large map of Trail of Tears State Park and an account of some of the legends that have grown up about the territory are published in The Southeast Missourian.

75 years ago: Oct. 8, 1935

ST. LOUIS -- Rush H. Limbaugh, Cape Girardeau lawyer, is appointed special commissioner to hear evidence in the contention of Anna Ware, unwed mother, that her infant is in the possession of Nellie Tipton Muench, acquitted Saturday on a kidnapping charge.

Bids for the new Columbus Club Association building, which will serve as the meeting place, and social and recreational center for St. Vincent's Council of Knights of Columbus, to be erected at 318 S. Spanish St., will be received in about two weeks; plans for the brick building are being prepared by architect A.F. Lindsay; an old residence, one of the city's landmarks, will be torn down to make room for the hall.

100 years ago: Oct. 8, 1910

Although three days of the Cape Girardeau fair had to be called off because of rain and floods, the success of the remaining two days was remarkable; when the fair did open, it was to a monster crowd, the attendance being estimated at 8,000.

J.H. Freeze, inventor of the Freeze new model threshing machine, is home visiting his family, after a successful demonstration of his machine in the rice fields of Arkansas.

-- Sharon K. Sanders