Out of the past 7/24/10

25 years ago: July 24, 1985

More than a year after announcing plans to build a waste transfer station here, Allen Waste Management Co. says it will proceed with the construction of a $600,000 transfer station in the Cape Girardeau area; the company plans to build the facility regardless of whether the city enters into a contract to dump its garbage at the transfer station.

A new bridge over Cape LaCroix Creek along Route W opened to traffic this week; only shoulder work needs to be completed.

50 years ago: July 24, 1960

Paul Steinhoff arrived by plane yesterday from Houston, Tex., to visit his brothers, H.H. and L.V. Steinhoff, and their families of Cape Girardeau; Paul Steinhoff is a chemical engineer for Blaw Knox Co.

Larry D. Friedrich, son of August A. Friedrich of Jackson, has completed his studies in the Junior Year Abroad program at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France; after the close of the school year, Friedrich married Judy A. Boyer of Port Orchard, Wash., who was also a student at the Institute; the two plan to return to the United States at the end of the summer.

75 years ago: July 24, 1935

John L. Blue, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest K. Blue of Cape Girardeau, who was sworn in as a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on July 1, has been assigned to the Fifth Company by Maj.-Gen. W.D. Connor, superintendent; for the next six weeks, Blue and his classmates will receive an intensive course of instruction in various military subjects, including both drills and lectures.

Jackson's volunteer fire department -- consisting of Chief Charles Steck, N.A. Illers, Eldon Roberts, T.H. Obermiller, Henry Sievers, Joseph M. Allen, J.R. Mabrey, W.J. Ruff, J.M. Poe, F.A. Schneider, H.L. Jones, Otto Hanschen, A.W. Roloff and J.G. Kies -- with their families hold a picnic at the Community Club House.

100 years ago: July 24, 1910

The Kettle River Co., having completed the last of its street paving contract in Cape Girardeau, has shipped all its tools away; Sidney Oakes, who has had charge of the paving work, leaves for St. Louis.

Little Phil Hoch, 4 years old and full of energy, falls from a second-story window at his home, 151 S. Spanish St., but fortunately escapes serious injury.

-- Sharon K. Sanders