Out of the past 7/9/10

25 years ago: July 9, 1985

Despite 103 percent of the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department's 1985 jail maintenance budget already having been spent, it appears even more money will be needed to prevent escapes like the one that occurred last month; installation of a wire mesh outside of windows on the north and south jail wings would cost around $150 per window.

Missouri Attorney General William L. Webster outlines the new consumer protection laws passed by the Missouri Legislature last session during an address to the Jackson Rotary Club.

50 years ago: July 9, 1960

Business firms in the Main Street area announce the acquisition of five major parcels extending northward from the Main-Broadway intersection for development by a new corporation, Downtown Parking Inc., into a 225-car parking lot; property acquired and to be razed to provide space for the lot extends from the south line of the Wides Oil Co. to Broadway, between Main Street and the Frisco Railroad tracks.

A new maintenance building has been constructed in Trail of Tears State Park; it will house rolling equipment, tools and the like; it is at the edge of a recreation area on high ground above the site of a lake now under construction and on the road to the Mississippi River overlook.

75 years ago: July 9, 1935

Lee J. Bagby of Cape Girardeau has assumed his duties as field representative for the Cape Girardeau traffic bridge, owned by the Ozark Trails Bridge Co.

Joe DeLassus, Cape Girardeau baseball star, caught his first game for the Union City, Tenn., club in the Kitty League last night, and his team won, defeating Portageville, Mo., 1-0.

100 years ago: July 9, 1910

Postmaster E.W. Flentge has received notice of an increase of $100 per year in the salaries of asistant postmaster Albert Eckhardt and clerks Arthur Uhl and George A. Chappell; H.H. Haas, clerk at substation No. 2, will also get an increase of $100 per year.

E.E. Whitworth of Poplar Bluff, Mo., will most likely be appointed a deputy U.S. marshal by E.F. Regenhardt in the near future.

-- Sharon K. Sanders