Out of the past 9/18/11

25 years ago: Sept. 18, 1986

About 45 tombstones were broken or pushed over in historic Old Lorimier Cemetery between Monday and the discovery of the vandalism yesterday.

A three-person panel -- Bob Herring, state supervisor of instruction with the Department of Education; Thomas Harte, a member of the speech faculty at Southeast Missouri State University and a member of the board of education, and Roger Ellis, an lawyer and member of the Jackson School Board -- provides an "Update on Education"; the discussion is sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

50 years ago: Sept. 18, 1961

The Mississippi River, rising as a result of heavy northern rains brought about by Hurricane Carla, is nearing flood stage at Cape Girardeau; Smelterville is still dry as the river reaches 30.3.

Only around 50 people are present at a public hearing that discusses the details of an Oct. 3 bond issue of $1,665,000 that will expand Cape Girardeau's school facilities; most were teachers, members of the school staffs, the citizens' committee for better schools and school board members.

75 years ago: Sept. 18, 1936

Members of the Main Street team posed with the championship trophy in the Girls' Softball League for the 1936 season. The team and coaches were: Front row, left to right, Geneva Trovillion, Mildred Besel, Madeline Smith, Juanita Preston, Helen Metje, Eula Lewis, Marjorie Godwin, Peno Rickard; back row, left to right, manager Leo Boussum, coach Stein Hinton, Babe Koch, Louise Kitbler, Marylee Rehkopf, Bernice Thomas, Coaches Glen Langston and Rodney Preston. (Missourian archives; photo by Kassel's Studio)

The Main Street team, which took top honors in the Girls' Softball League for the 1936 season, trims the Murphysboro, Ill., All-Stars 4-3 before a crowd of 524 paying fans at Houck Field Stadium; Helen Metje goes the entire route on the mound for the Main Street club.

The Excelsior Furniture & Music Co. of Cape Girardeau announces it will open a new store in Perryville, Mo., Oct. 1 with Henry Kimmich in charge; a large room in the Juanita Hotel building has been leased.

100 years ago: Sept. 18, 1911

Commercial Club president Mercer D. Wilson has named delegates to the conservation congress at Kansas City on Sept. 25 to 27: D.A. Glenn, William Hirsch and Fred Naeter; representing the club at the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway gathering in Chicago next month will be I.R. Kelso, Glenn, W.H. Harrison, W.H. Miller, L.J. Albert, L.S. Joseph, G.E. Alt Jr. and J.H. Himmelberger.

Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dennis of Baltimore are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kochtitzky; Mrs. Dennis and Mrs. Kochtitzky are sisters. Mr. Dennis is a noted Egyptologist.

-- Sharon K. Sanders