Out of the past 7/21/10

25 years ago: July 21, 1985

First Assembly of God Church, 750 N. Mount Auburn Road, kicks off a weeklong tent revival in the morning; the Rev. Alfred Hinton of Oklahoma ministers at the service.

Owners of the Pagoda Gardens restaurant report approximately $5,500 was stolen from the restaurant's safe; burglars apparently broke through doors on the east side of the building and peeled back the rear portion of a safe in the kitchen.

50 years ago: July 21, 1960

Business firms in Cape Girardeau coming under the city's gross receipts tax -- $1 per $1,000 worth of business done -- paid a total of $38,744.50 into the treasury in the fiscal year that ended June 30; that sum doesn't include $68,322.60 paid by the Missouri Utilities Co. on the 2 1/2 percent gross receipts tax levied upon it, or the $15,000 paid by Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. in a flat sum, calculated also at about 2 1/2 percent.

Glen Thompson shot a large wolf on his farm between Oak Ridge and Old Appleton; the wolf, which is thought to have killed some small pigs and poultry, was 24 inches tall.

75 years ago: July 21, 1935

A motor mission, which is touring the state in the interest of the Catholic Church, will be in Cape Girardeau next week; a program will be given each evening at Courthouse Park from Monday through Saturday; three priests, one of them the Rev. J.G. Phoenix of St. Vincent's College, make up the personnel of the mission.

The Rev. Roland Reichmann, new pastor of First English Lutheran Church, speaks at the union service at Courthouse Park in the evening.

100 years ago: July 21, 1910

A.C. Jaynes reports work on the new steam ferryboat for Cape Girardeau is progressing at the Howard shipyards at Jeffersonville, Ind.; the hull is nearly completed, and it is expected the vessel will be ready for service in 60 days.

C.A. Cook of Sikeston, Mo., who has been acting manager of the Riverview Hotel here for some time, will leave this week for his hometown, where he will begin preparations for opening the new hotel there; management of the Riverview will go to Mrs. Mary Dunlap.

Featured in "Men of Affairs" is Dr. Otto E. Forster.

-- Sharon K. Sanders