Out of the past 6/22/11

25 years ago: June 22, 1986

Children's Day is celebrated at Evangelical United Church of Christ with a special combination service; there are no Sunday school classes, but the children present songs and skits, along with a performance by the youth choir, during the service; the Rev. Walter Trost, pastor of Bethlehem United Church of Christ in Chicago, is guest speaker.

Cape Girardeau's eighth annual Riverfest was a big success, organizers say; despite the sweltering heat, an estimated 45,000 to 50,000 people attended the riverfront celebration Friday and Saturday.

50 years ago: June 22, 1961

Forms are being set as construction is pushed on the Kroger Co. egg-grading plant in Jackson; the plant is being constructed on an industrial tract provided by the community along the west side of U.S. 61 just north of Jackson.

Mike Geringer, 14, of Cape Girardeau lands a 15-pound 5-ounce catfish at Capaha Park lagoon with the aid of his friend, Dick Young, 14, also of Cape Girardeau.

75 years ago: June 22, 1936

The Mississippi River late last week was "near beer" when a motor truck loaded with malt and hops for the brewery here plunged into the river at Chester, Ill., the fermentable cargo floating downstream.

Voters will go to the polls tomorrow to ballot on an $85,000 bond issue which would be used to construct a new grade school building on the site of old Lorimier School on Independence Street.

100 years ago: June 22, 1911

I. Ben Miller's ice cream factory on the levee is finished and his force of men begin freezing hundreds of gallons of various kinds of cream to supply the demand on these hot days; the factory in the Houck building formerly occupied by the Ruehmann junk company is a model of cleanliness and sterilization.

From all points come reports of harvesting being done and wheat threshing about to start; probably the first in this neighborhood to begin threshing will be A.E. Fuerhahn of Dutchtown, who will begin on his own place in a couple days and expects to get about 2,000 bushels.

-- Sharon K. Sanders