Out of the past 9/10/05

25 years ago: Sept. 10, 1980

Attendance at this year's SEMO District Fair is running a little ahead of last year, and fair officials are hoping cooler weather will keep it ahead; about 12,000 people turned out yesterday, many attending the popular tractor pull event.

The Missouri Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a petition filed by the city of Jackson and seven Cape Girardeau County residents seeking to block the move of the Cape Girardeau Circuit Court office from the county seat to Cape Girardeau.

50 years ago: Sept. 10, 1955

Cape Girardeau voters will be given a second chance to pass the swimming pool bonds that failed on Aug. 16 by a narrow, 68-vote margin; the city council yesterday, in answer to the plea of a delegation of nine members of the citizens committee which plugged the issue before, called an election for Oct. 4 to coincide with the school foundation bill and cigarette tax balloting; the plan calls for the issuance of $165,000 in general obligation bonds to pay for the pool.

Dr. Thomas P. Fristoe, 83, a retired Cape Girardeau dentist, died yesterday at a local hospital where he had been a patient two months; besides practicing here as a dentist, Fristoe was also police judge for many years.

75 years ago: Sept. 10, 1930

After spending a portion of the night tied up at the port of Cape Girardeau, the USS Mississippi, with Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and his staff of Army engineers aboard, departs early in the morning for Cairo, Ill., from where Hurley will make an inspection trip of flood-control projects in the vicinity.

W.E. Edom and a staff of assistants of the Missouri Inspection Bureau of St. Louis are in Cape Girardeau conducting an inspection of schools, churches, public and mercantile buildings incidental to re-rating fire insurance in the city; a similar inspection was made in 1913.

100 years ago: Sept. 10, 1905

The Rev. James H. Brooks conducts services at the Christian Church in the morning and evening; his morning sermon is on "The Hope and Memory Ordinance"; in the evening, he discusses "The Creed of Christians."

The Rev. O.G. Halliburton, who is visiting the pastor, the Rev. Olin Boggess, preaches in the morning at the English Methodist church, the corner of Themis and Sprigg streets; he hasn't visited this church since the Rev. R.L. Russell was pastor.

-- Sharon K. Sanders