Out of the past 9/17/09

25 years ago: Sept. 17, 1984

Two San Diego police officers -- including Cape Girardeau native Timothy Ruopp, 31 -- were fatally wounded in a nighttime attack Friday while citing two men for drinking violations; Ruopp, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Dudley G. Ruopp of Cape Girardeau, died yesterday at a San Diego hospital.

Nearly 23,000 people attended the SEMO District Fair on Saturday, shattering the attendance record for the annual September event; Saturday's crowd boosted the weeklong attendance figure to 115,816.

50 years ago: Sept. 17, 1959

Schoolchildren and adults, beckoned by cool temperatures and some fine attractions, throng the grounds of the SEMO District Fair in Arena Park; it is Cape Girardeau and Cape County School Day.

Plats for two new subdivisions in Cape Girardeau were filed this week; Caufield Addition, a part of Allen's Subdivision, lying off Hopper Road and on West Mount Drive, was filed by M.E. Field and George A. Cauble; the other, Lindenwood Heights, filed by Jane Leonard, is off Scott's Lane and near Flint Hill.

75 years ago: Sept. 17, 1934

Another office is being prepared in the back of the Chamber of Commerce building for Frank C. Oldham, administrator in the Cape Girardeau district for the Missouri Relief and Re-employment Commission; he will move here at once from Poplar Bluff, Mo.

The Co-Op Drug Store has moved from 24 N. Main St., where it opened Oct. 14, 1933, to 40 N. Main St.; the store is operated by Elaine Davis and Carlyn Nussbaum.

100 years ago: Sept. 17, 1909

Another fire at the pressed brick plant, in the extreme west end of Cape Girardeau, sweeps a shed covering one of the large kilns and results in a loss of several hundred dollars.

About 50 men working on paving Main, Themis and Independence streets strike for higher wages in the morning; most are employed on the concreting; they have been receiving $1.50 per day to mix the concrete, to haul it from the mixer at the foot of Independence Street to the excavation site, and to shovel it around evenly; they are told to expect the importation of labor.

-- Sharon K. Sanders