Out of the past 7/20/10

25 years ago: July 20, 1985

The Flying Rifle Team, consisting of 16 Navy Technical Training Command crewmen from Millington, Tenn., perform at Senior Fun Fest 1985 at Trail of Tears State Park; an estimated crowd of more than 3,000 attends the event, despite 90-degree weather.

For the second time in the past 16 months, workers at Tri-Con Industries Ltd. here defeat efforts to join the United Auto Workers union; Tri-Con employees vote 123 in favor and 146 against representation by the U.A.W.

50 years ago: July 20, 1960

Generally speaking, the agricultural outlook for Southeast Missouri is for a favorable harvest; soybeans are in excellent condition, but corn is spotty, depending upon the amount of rainfall; cotton had to be replanted because of cold weather and, consequently, is late; some watermelons are being shipped to market.

High officials of the W.T. Grant Co. paid a visit to the firm's new store in the Town Plaza Shopping Center yesterday, arriving in two helicopters and landing on the huge parking lot in front of the store.

75 years ago: July 20, 1935

Col. Andrew V. Scott, noted drum corps instructor and bandmaster of Chicago, will be in Cape Girardeau next week to give instruction to Missouri's Golden Troopers, the American Legion's drum and bugle corps; Scott has been training the corps for the past three years.

Eight young men from Cape Girardeau County are in training at the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Jefferson Barracks; they are Arthur W. Barr, Claude Heflin Jr., Elmer E. Medcalf, Joseph Wolsey Jr., Thatcher E. Moseley, Weldon R. Wampler, Walter F. Wilson and Joseph M. Dickey.

100 years ago: July 20, 1910

The Rees Lee steamer of the Lee Line unloads a lot of buggies in the morning, consigned to Jackson and Oak Ridge; this is done nearly every trip up, and many come to Cape Girardeau from St. Louis; it would seem that a buggy factory in Cape Girardeau would be a paying investment.

The people of Edna, Mo., are tired of hiking to Illmo or Kelso, Mo., in order to catch a train when they want to go to Cape Girardeau or St. Louis; they've asked the railroad and warehouse commissioners to see that the railroad running through there provides a passenger depot.

Featured in "Men of Affairs" is I.R. Kelso.

When the Missouri Press Association met here, in June, the 200 or more editors could not get through commenting on the wonderful things the Commercial Club had accomplished for Cape Girardeau. "Why, we have a Commercial Club in our town that we thought was a good one, but ours simply isn't in it with yours," was the way most every editor expressed it. (Nearly Every Town Has A Commercial Club, And Most Every One Is Just As Inactive As Its Name Is Active. The Cape Girardeau Commercial Club Has Been Wideawake For Years. It Never Sleeps, And The Results Of Its Activity Are Seen On Every Side.)

-- Sharon K. Sanders