Out of the past 8/25/05

25 years ago: Aug. 25, 1980

After a summer that passes much too quickly for children, classes begin for more than 4,000 youngsters in the Cape Girardeau public schools; it is also the first day of school for pupils at Trinity Lutheran School, St. Vincent's and St. Mary's Catholic grade schools, Notre Dame High School and University Schools.

The role of the city of Jackson as a plaintiff in a petition before the Missouri Supreme Court seeking to block the move of circuit court offices from Jackson is discussed by the board of aldermen during a regular work session; some aldermen last week questioned whether the board had officially agreed to be a plaintiff in the case.

50 years ago: Aug. 25, 1955

Louis W. Statler is a patient at Southeast Missouri Hospital with serious pelvic injuries; Statler, 40, a farmer living near Illmo, lay helpless for two hours in a pasture a quarter-mile from his home yesterday morning, after a tractor rolled over him as it overturned on a wet hillside.

Efforts are begun by the Cape Girardeau County Red Cross Chapter to raise a "rock-bottom" quota of $1,050 for aid to the flood sufferers in the East and Northeast sections of the United States.

75 years ago: Aug. 25, 1930

A contract for manufacturing Army shoes is being filled by the Cape Girardeau plant of the International Shoe Co.; the contract is for the manufacture of "garrison" shoes, and it will require the plant to run at the present production basis for between five and six months.

Paving of the first section of Highway 61 between Ancell and Benton, Mo., south of Cape Girardeau, was completed over the weekend, and the paving machinery is being moved to a half-way point between the two towns, an operation which will take about a week to accomplish.

100 years ago: Aug. 25, 1905

The rails for the new street railway arrive in the morning at the Frisco yards; there are 11 cars, the number bought at Moberly, Mo.; they will be transferred to the Houck yards and will be unloaded tomorrow.

Word has been received from Washington, D.C., that a new postmaster has been appointed for Kurreville, in Cape Girardeau County; Gus G. Kurre, who had been postmaster, resigned the position; the post office was located in his general store, and he sold the latter to John M. Miller, who in turn has been appointed postmaster.

-- Sharon K. Sanders