Out of the past 8/6/11

25 years ago: Aug. 6, 1986

City officials and civic leaders express disappointment in the aftermath of yesterday's election, in which two of three city issues were defeated; voters approved a measure establishing a residential trash fee of $4.85 a month and hiking commercial rates and the landfill fee; but a $3.3 million flood-control bond issue and a half-cent transportation sales tax measure failed.

Yesterday, voters approved the establishment and funding of the Cape Girardeau County Health Department; the Cape County Nursing Service, headed by Charlotte Craig, will evolve into the new department.

50 years ago: Aug. 6, 1961

SIKESTON, Mo. -- The Rev. E.D. Owen, former pastor of First Baptist Church of Cape Girardeau, is retiring after 20 years as pastor of the First Baptist Church here; Dr. Gerald T. Smith of Oklahoma, Okla., has accepted a call from the Sikeston congregation to assume the pastorate.

In the absence of the pastor, Dr. R.C. Holliday, who is on vacation, Dean Forrest H. Rose occupies the pulpit at Centenary Methodist Church in the morning.

75 years ago: Aug. 6, 1936

For two hours in the morning, members of the Cape Girardeau City Council discuss either cutting municipal operating costs or raising additional revenue, and the talks resume in the afternoon; no substantial means of bolstering revenue are advanced, but the commissioners appear loath to get down to the matter of drastically reducing expenditures.

J. Grant Frye of Cape Girardeau won the Republican nomination for attorney general of Missouri at Tuesday's primary election by a majority of over 50,000 over Clarence Powell of Dexter, Mo.

100 years ago: Aug. 6, 1911

Despite being either deluged by rain or threatened by storms, attendance at Pain's "Last Days of Pompeii" last week was remarkable; members of the Commercial Club committee who organized the pyrotechnic show are to be congratulated.

Louis L. Pott has purchased the property of G.H. Wilson on Bellevue Street, which he will soon make his home; Wilson will move to Florida with his family.

-- Sharon K. Sanders