Out of the past 9/11/11

25 years ago: Sept. 11, 1986

Jackson city attorney Roger Ellis is handling not only municipal court cases in Jackson, but also Cape Girardeau's municipal cases; the arrangement was prompted by the resignation of Cape Girardeau city attorney Fred Boeckmann, who left last month.

Earl James, fair board president, reports Wednesday's attendance at the SEMO District Fair was 9,750 people; Roy Clark will appear in two shows at the grandstand tonight.

50 years ago: Sept. 11, 1961

Hurricane Carla, which is lashing Louisiana and Texas with 173-mile-an-hour winds and battering 11-foot tides, will be felt in Cape Girardeau by the middle of the week; here, Carla will stir up thunderstorms and heavy rain and winds up to 25 miles per hour starting tomorrow.

A 44-year-old man here with a carnival is arrested in Arena Park by Cape Girardeau officers and an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation; he is wanted for questioning in connection with the slaying of an 11-year-old boy who disappeared from a park in South Roxana, Ill., in 1959.

75 years ago: Sept. 11, 1936

City attorney R.P. Smith says it will be permissible to connect with the West End sewer system Saturday; when the system could be put into use had been a question up until the announcement.

Snapper, the dog who guarded 5-year-old Wally Ogle through a long night -- July 25, when the boy was lost on Little Whitewater Creek -- is missing; the boy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Ogle of Cape Girardeau, are reluctant to believe the dog would desert her four pups.

100 years ago: Sept. 11, 1911

The Rev. Eugene F. Abbott, for nearly a year pastor of the First Presbyterian Church here, tendered his resignation to his congregation at the morning service yesterday; he explained his resignation was primarily caused by anxiety for the health of his son.

Coach Henry Schulte and members of the Normal School football team are dismayed by the news that Billy Martin, the fullback of last season's team, will be unable to report for training; while doing farm work, he got tangled up in a corn-cutting machine, which badly lacerated a tendon in his heel.

-- Sharon K. Sanders