Out of the past 5/20/10

25 years ago: May 20, 1985

A Poplar Bluff (Mo.) High School junior won two major awards over the weekend at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Shreveport, La.; Karen Stoll was awarded first place in the Medicine and Health category and won one of the three awards of the American Veterinary Medicine Association; she was one of two principal winners of the Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair held here in March.

Betty Knoll, who has put in untold hours assisting the Cape Girardeau Police Department on a variety of crime-prevention projects, is awarded the Respect for Law Award by the Cape Girardeau Breakfast Optimists Club.

50 years ago: May 20, 1960

Appointment of a new superintendent of the Methodist church in the Cape Girardeau District and two changes in pastorates here have been announced; the Rev. John J. Wood of St. Louis will succeed the Rev. Frank C. Tucker as district superintendent; the Rev. George W. Heslar, who has been pastor of Grace Methodist Church for 10 years, has been appointed superintendent of the Farmington District and will be succeeded by the Rev. G. Kenneth Brun of Warrenton, Mo.; the Rev. David R. Finley, pastor of Maple Avenue Church for two years, has been transferred to Farmington and will be succeeded by the Rev. J.W. Stalion, who is coming here from Perryville, Mo.

F.J. Courleux, 78, of Cape Girardeau, for 20 years coach of athletic teams at State College, died yesterday at a local hospital.

75 years ago: May 20, 1935

James P. Martin, who has been manager of the Fox theaters in Cape Girardeau, expects to be transferred to another city by June 1, likely in Central Missouri.

Speeches and good golf opened Hillcrest Golf Club to the public yesterday afternoon; about 200 people visited the course, and many drove their and viewed the new 2,900-yard golf layout from the highway; Orville Lumsden, Sikeston, Mo.'s, youthful golf star who attends State College, broke par on his second round on the nine-hole course, checking in a 34 for the 35-par links.

100 years ago: May 20, 1910

Two nights of entertainment will close the public schools this year; on the evening of May 30, at the Grand Theater on Good Hope Street, the pupils of the eighth grade will present a dramatization of Longfellow's "Evangeline"; the following evening, at the Lorimier School auditorium, Walter Williams, dean of the school of journalism of the state university, will deliver the address at the closing exercises of the school.

George W. Michael of Dunklin County, a candidate for the Democratic congressional nomination of the 14th District, speaks at the Common Pleas Courthouse on "The Trusts, Tariff and Russellism."

-- Sharon K. Sanders