Out of the past 8/13/09

25 years ago: Aug. 13, 1984

More than $129 million in federal and state money flows into Cape Girardeau County annually, according to a study by Cape Girardeau resident Gilbert Degenhardt, a local member of Common Cause, a nationwide citizen's lobby.

William D. Sisco, 68, owner and operator of Sisco Individualized Hair Styling, 729 Broadway, died yesterday at his shop; Sisco moved here from East Prairie, Mo., in 1938; he had been a barber since 1933.

50 years ago: Aug. 13, 1959

Officials of the R-4 School District announce that classes will start on Aug. 31 and that children will be transported to the three district schools in new buses; classes will be held in the Juden, Egypt Mills and Indian Creek schools.

The Jackson Fire Department was called to the McNeely Foundry yesterday afternoon to extinguish a fire on the roof; it had been a busy morning with extra workers in the shop to pour molds of cast iron; there was extensive damage to the cupola, and it will be several days before work is resumed.

75 years ago: Aug. 13, 1934

Efforts will be made to raise $2,500 in the next few days as a means of luring a government meat cannery to Cape Girardeau; the government requires that the community furnish a building and the necessary light, water and steam for the factory.

Workers are remodeling the interior of the room in the Idan-Ha Hotel building formerly occupied by the hotel coffee shop for two new businesses; the space facing Broadway will be occupied by a haberdashery operated by Milton Gehrs; the remainder of the space, adjacent to the hotel lobby, will be converted into a sandwich shop for the hotel.

100 years ago: Aug. 13, 1909

Last night, Rose Leming entertained a large number of her young friends on the beautiful lawn at her home on North Ellis Street; the grounds were illuminated by many Japanese lanterns, and the entertainment was in the form of a lamp-light picnic.

A exodus begins on the noon trains, as Normal School student who have just finished the summer term depart Cape Girardeau; the platform of the Frisco passenger station is alive with bright-cheeked girls and lusty youths waiting for the outgoing trains to take them to their homes.

-- Sharon K. Sanders