Out of the past 7/10/10

25 years ago: July 10, 1985

The Jackson R-2 Board of Education has approved a tentative tax rate of $2.27 per $100 assessed valuation for the 1985-86 school year; the rate is down from the 1984-85 rate of $2.84 per $100 assessed valuation.

Due to the extreme heat and humidity, the Cape Girardeau city sanitation department will begin trash pick up one hour earlier at 5 a.m., beginning next week.

50 years ago: July 10, 1960

Members of First Baptist Church dedicate their new Educational Annex next to the church edifice on Broadway; the spacious building, with 82 rooms, cost $265,555.76; dedicatory speaker is the Rev. L.W. Cleland, pastor of Northgate Baptist Church in Kansas City, who was pastor here when the building program began.

With a 12-hit barrage, the Cape Girardeau Capahas defeat the Longtown, Mo., club, 4-2, at Longtown; Bill Crafton and Walt Grebing lead the Caps with three hits each.

75 years ago: July 10, 1935

Work starts on three new residences representing a total investment of approximately $25,000; two of the dwellings are to be built on Normal Avenue, just east of the Boulevard; the other is to be built at 619 N. Henderson Ave.; local architect A.F. Lindsay designed all three.

Cape Girardeau's welcome sign is tottering; a signboard just east of Clark Avenue on Broadway at the western city limits is leaning precariously; in recent years a proposal to build a large steel arch sign, electrically lighted, over Broadway near Highway 61 has been discussed, but nothing has ever been done about it.

100 years ago: July 10, 1910

Another heavy rain at noon yesterday wrecked the paving on Broadway for the third time, the flood sweeping the wood blocks up and away into the river.

The new county jail in Jackson is nearing completion; the contractors have completed putting on the slate roof, and the steel men will next begin the work on the cells.

-- Sharon K. Sanders