Out of the past 9/18/10

25 years ago: Sept. 18, 1985

A court-appointed commission has concluded the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department should pay a total of $435,050 in compensation to property owners in connection with a condemnation proceeding resulting from planned improvements of Highway 177 from Fruitland to Neelys Landing.

The pros and cons of a presidential primary in Missouri are debated by Jackson attorneys Kevin Phillips and Thomas Ludwig at a meeting sponsored by the Cape Girardeau County League of Women Voters.

50 years ago: Sept. 18, 1960

Tents are struck and exhibits moved out in wholesale numbers as the SEMO District Fair closes after a week-long showing; total attendance for the week was 52,671 people, the third highest on record.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Voters here will go to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots for the first time under a new form of government for the town -- the city manager plan; the names of 15 candidates seeking to be nominated as one of the five aldermen-at-large will appear on the ballots.

75 years ago: Sept. 18, 1935

With the Mississippi River at a low stage, work is resumed on several projects and on new ones for which contracts were let earlier in the year; one of the important projects is revetment of 1,600 lineal feet of bank on the Missouri shore at the mouth of Little Flora Creek, just north of Cape Girardeau.

As the mercury lolls near the summer-heat mark again, Southeast Missouri farmers are jubilant over prospects for cotton to continue development and for corn to win its race to mature before frost.

100 years ago: Sept. 18, 1910

After serving the Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau for the past five years, the Rev. Adolph Kistler announces his resignation; he will leave here about the middle of October.

Mrs. Charles Weidt, after an absence of 30 years, is visiting friends in Cape Girardeau; Mrs. Weidt, the former Miss Ruehl, resides in Omaha, Neb.; her husband established a German newspaper here in 1871, the Westliche Presse.

-- Sharon K. Sanders