Out of the past 6/26/07

25 years ago: June 26, 1982

The Missouri Department of Conservation is investigating the cause of a fish kill on Goose Creek east of Jackson Friday; all the fish in a three-quarter mile stretch of the creek were killed.

James Glass Co., which has been located on old Highway 61 South in Cape Girardeau, has moved to its new and more spacious quarters at 2321 Bloomfield Road; the company, which installs automotive glass and plate glass, is headed by Joe David James II.

50 years ago: June 26, 1957

The Southeast Missourian publishes a 60-page "Free Bridge Edition;" the special publication highlights the history of the bridge. A huge celebration is planned for Saturday, when the span is freed of tolls.

Dr. Norman L. Cook of Cape Girar-deau, anesthetist at St. Francis Hospital, dies in the hospital operating room as he is preparing for the morning operating schedule; Cook, 50, was born in Philadelphia; he came to Cape Girardeau with his family in 1952 from Bay Shore, N.Y.

75 years ago: June 26, 1932

Members of Emmanuel Baptist Church celebrate the congregation's first anniversary; R.A. Brooks, superintendent of the Sunday School at First Baptist Church, speaks at the morning service, and a basket dinner is served at noon; a history of the church is reviewed in the evening service.

S.J. Cohen & Co., contractor, has completed the major construction work on the Diversion Channel-Highway 25 bridge near Dutchtown; only a small amount of steel at the south end of the span remains to be placed; the new bridge, which will replace an old iron and wooden structure a few yards to the east, is the longest in the county at 1,902 feet long.

100 years ago: June 26, 1907

Near Oak Ridge last Monday, Hinkle McLain's binder was struck by lightning; Luther Crites, Hinkle's brother-in-law, who was driving the machine, was knocked off uninjured; two mules were knocked down, but they weren't injured either; the binder was slightly damaged.

The Chaffee, Mo., hotel, under course of construction, is already changing hands; it has been sold to a Memphis, Tenn., man.

-- Sharon K. Sanders