Out of the past 9/2/06

25 years ago: Sept. 2, 1981

Air Illinois announces it will resume three St. Louis round trips from the Cape Girardeau market this month; the Carbondale, Ill.-based commuter airline had cut one trip last month, because of service curtailment as a result of the air traffic controllers strike.

After about a year of planning and the six-month renovation of a building at 712 Main St., officials move into Scott City's new city hall complex, which also houses the city's fire department; the building formerly housed an auto body shop.

50 years ago: Sept. 2, 1956

Two boys, 1956 graduates of St. Mary's Grade School, will enter the St. Louis Preparatory School Wednesday to begin their studies toward the priesthood; they are John M. Herbst, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Herbst Jr., and Ronnie Hale, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lemro Hale.

The new rector of Christ Episcopal Church, the Rev. Arthur B. Geeson, celebrates Holy Communion at both morning services at the church and preaches his first sermon there at the latter service; Geeson came to Cape Girardeau from San Antonio, Texas.

75 years ago: Sept. 2, 1931

PARMA, Mo. -- American Airways, Inc., has signed a lease, securing land from C.E. Wagner of near this place upon which to establish an intermediate landing field on the St. Louis-New Orleans air line operated by the company.

George Goza, while in Jackson recently, again brought up the subject of liquidating the affairs of the Cape Girardeau County Anti-Horsethief Association, since it is an obsolete institution and no longer serves any purpose.

100 years ago: Sept. 2, 1906

The Rev. H.P Crowe, presiding elder of the Charleston, Mo., district, preaches in the morning at the Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau; he will remain in town Monday, when he holds the fourth quarterly conference of the Methodist church here.

Nora Naeter, who recently returned from Berlin, Germany, where she studied piano with Xaver Scharwenka, the greatest composer of the age, is in Cape Girardeau visiting her brothers, Fred, George and Harry Naeter.

-- Sharon K. Sanders