Out of the past 7/7/11

25 years ago: July 7, 1986

The Mingo Job Corps Center, scheduled to be closed as a Gramm-Rudman cost-saving measure, will remain open thanks to legislation signed recently by the president, says Rep. Bill Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau.

A tentative 1986 tax rate of $2.35 per $100 assessed valuation -- a penny more than last year -- is set by the Cape Girardeau School Board following a public hearing at which no one appeared.

50 years ago: July 7, 1961

A panel of authorities submitted brief reports on different phases of Cape Girardeau's proposed sewage disposal system last night at the Capaha Park band shell, then replied to a number of questions from members of a sparse audience at the town meeting-type program; Girardeans will vote on the bond issue next Tuesday.

The Rev. and Mrs. Victor H. Grimm have established their permanent home at 10 N. Henderson Ave., moving here from Farley, Mo.; Rev. Grimm concluded 42 years of active service with the Lutheran Church in late June.

75 years ago: July 7, 1936

Gus H. Stein, 79, a retired flour mill operator, dies of pneumonia in the morning; Stein was born near Commerce, Mo., in 1857, but spent most of his life in Cape Girardeau; his father was Christian Stein, who died six years ago at age 104.

Passenger business for motor buses serving Cape Girardeau has increased about 100 percent over last year, say bus company officials, pointing out that as many as seven buses have been used on a single run through this city the past two weeks.

100 years ago: July 7, 1911

Gust Schultz, the well-known Broadway barber, is recovering from heat prostration suffered yesterday while helping to sink a well on his farm just beyond the city limits on Rural Route 3.

Ancell is the junction point of the Cotton Belt and the Cape Girardeau & Thebes Terminal railroads, where about 300 people live; the residents do without a post office, going to Kelso, Mo., for their letters and newspapers; the Ancellites are trying to convince Uncle Sam to establish a post office there.

-- Sharon K. Sanders