Out of the past 6/9/10

25 years ago: June 9, 1985

First Presbyterian Church, celebrating its 150th anniversary, holds an outdoor service in Courthouse Park in the evening; the service centers on the theme "God and Nature."

Britt Airways, which provides air passenger service between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau and interline connections with major airlines, established an all-time passenger handling record at Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport last month, boarding 1,154 passengers and deplaning 1,024.

50 years ago: June 9, 1960

Cooler weather, which on one day dropped attendance to 44 people, has reduced swimming slightly at the municipal swimming pool in its first 10 days of operation during the corresponding period last year; attendance through yesterday totaled 4,994; a year ago, attendance for the same period was 5,211.

While hunting squirrels with Allen O'Howell in a woods along the lower Bend Road yesterday, Owen Scherer killed a 58-inch timber rattlesnake.

75 years ago: June 9, 1935

Struck on the back of the head by a golf ball while caddying on the new Hillcrest Country Club links on U.S. 61, Russell Combs, 15, of Cape Girardeau is knocked unconscious; he is hospitalized with a slight concussion.

Mrs. Dawson C. Bryan, wife of the presiding elder of the Cape Girardeau district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, speaks at the morning service at Maple Avenue Methodist Church.

100 years ago: June 9, 1910

Last night's severe storm brought torrential rain rushing down Broadway, where the street work is going on; the torrent got under the creosoted wood block paving, ruining half the paved side of the street for a block's distance.

Edward Harris, the popular young man who has made many friends at the First National Bank, where he was employed for a long time, has resigned to accept a position with the Southeast Missouri Trust Co., in the saving department.

-- Sharon K. Sanders