Out of the past 5/18/10

25 years ago: May 18, 1985

About 250 friends and relatives turned out last night for a banquet honoring Rush H. Limbaugh, 93-year-old Cape Girardeau lawyer and civic leader; the event was organized by the Cape Girardeau Rotary Club, of which Limbaugh is a member.

Wet Gene's Waterslide, west of Cape Girardeau on U.S. 61, is under new management; Roger Poythress has been named to manage the facility; it will open Memorial Day weekend for the summer season.

50 years ago: May 18, 1960

The Interstate Commerce Commission reschedules a public hearing at Cape Girardeau on a Frisco Railroad proposal to drop two daily passenger trains between St. Louis and Memphis; the hearing, originally set for June 8, will now be held June 15.

Bill Burke and Donald F. Keesee, both 22 and both natives of Cape Girardeau, have joined the Cape Girardeau Fire Department; Lloyd Henson, a member of the department for eight years, has resigned to take other employment.

75 years ago: May 18, 1935

BENTON, Mo. -- Twenty-one pupils of Benton High School sustained mostly minor injuries when a school bus overturned on Highway 70, just east of Lake Killarney, after being struck by an automobile truck trailer yesterday afternoon; the bus overturned twice, rolling down a 20-foot embankment into a ditch and was practically demolished.

Christopher H. Schrader, 92, one of three surviving veterans in Cape Girardeau of the Civil War, died at his home last evening.

100 years ago: May 18, 1910

Dr. M.A. Grissom lets the contract to J.A. Stevens for the new building he is to construct at the corner of Broadway and Spanish Street; it will be one of the finest structures on Broadway, having a frontage of 50 feet, a depth of 66 feet, and will be of brick and stone, three stories high; the building now on the corner will be rebuilt, and a third story added.

Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Cashion of Perryville, Mo., are in Cape Girardeau visiting their daughter, Mrs. J. Henry Caruthers.

-- Sharon K. Sanders