Out of the past 6/2/10

25 years ago: June 2, 1985

Gifts and tributes signaling deep appreciation to departing director Ann Abbott are features of the second annual Broadway Players awards banquet in the evening, as actors, actresses, technical workers and supporters are also honored; Abbott, who has been director of the community theater group since its inception, will leave Cape Girardeau June 11.

The J&S Gun Shop, 310 rear U.S. 61 East at Jackson, is under new ownership; Nelson E. Eaker took over the business Saturday.

50 years ago: June 2, 1960

Cape Girardeau city officials are trying to solve the problem of Independence Street; probably the most heavily traveled street in the city, and a truck route, it is filled with bumps and dips, chuckholes and rutted spots, all compounded by the mid-street location of Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks; before permanent repairs are made, the No. 1 storm sewer should be completed beneath the street, which poses another set of problems.

Four-year letter man Ronald Schlimme led the Central High Tigers in hitting for the 1960 baseball season with a hefty batting average of .483; Central compiled a record of 14-2.

75 years ago: June 2, 1935

Dean Vest C. Myers fills the pulpit at the Presbyterian Church here in the morning, in the absence of the pastor, Dr. C.H. Morton, who is in Montreat, N.C., at a Presbyterian meeting; Myers speaks on "Unfinished Temples."

Walter Stuenkel goes to his home at Concordia, Mo., near Kansas City, after spending two years as vicar at Trinity Lutheran Church; he will spend the summer there and then enter Concordia Seminary at St. Louis this fall.

100 years ago: June 2, 1910

Charles Vogelsang, a one-armed farmer living out on the Jackson Road, broke the record for shearing sheep again this year; he sheared 543 sheep for various farmers of the area.

A large audience attends the Normal School commencement exercises in the morning at the auditorium in Academic Hall; 52 students finished the college course, 40 the elementary course, and four the course in music; delivering the commencement address is Dr. John W. Withers, principal of the teachers' college in St. Louis.

-- Sharon K. Sanders