Out of the past 9/28/11

25 years ago: Sept. 28, 1986

Raymond and Helen Sheets of Cape Girardeau are honored at First Baptist Church as Sunday School Sweethearts and for their years of service to the church.

The congregation of Good Shepherd Lutheran Chapel holds its annual outdoor worship celebration at County Park South; special music is provided by guitarists Roger and Gail Karlish and pianist Irma Pott.

50 years ago: Sept. 28, 1961

All of these nurses were new at Saint Francis Hospital in 1961 under a new "patient-centered care" program. From the left were Mrs. Betty Ross, Marietta Lankheit, Mary Sue Sciortino, Patricia L. Anderson, Mrs. Elvie Robert, Meredith Cleeton, Edna Downing, Dorothy Kirn, Joan Collins, Erna Meier, Phyllis Teirney, Jerri Anne Cook, Kay Allen and Clara Ann Hirtz. Gwendolyn Ruth Pryor, another member of the group, wasn't present for the picture. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger_

Fifteen new nurses are working at Saint Francis Hospital under a recently initiated "patient-centered care" program; eight are from the State College associate degree course in nursing.

Drastic steps would have to be made if the proposed $1,650,000 school bond issue doesn't win the approval of voters Tuesday, school board president Oliver Hope tells more than 100 people at a meeting of the Junior High School Parent-Teacher Unit; the new junior high, which would be financed by the bond issue, would take the burden from the crowded elementary schools and Central High School.

75 years ago: Sept. 28, 1936

Amy Kimmel, a native of Cape Girardeau and member of one of the city's earliest and most widely-known families, died Saturday at her home at 31 S. Lorimier St.; funeral services are held this morning at Christ Episcopal Church; Kimmel was born Sept. 23, 1864, a daughter of George G. and Delia Deane Kimmel; after teaching school in Kansas, she returned to Cape Girardeau in 1910 and two years later founded the Wednesday Club.

A dairy and feed barn owned by Wulfers Brothers at 2204 Broadway was destroyed by fire yesterday, with an estimated loss of $2,000; a horse was rescued from the flames, but two calves burned to death.

100 years ago: Sept. 28, 1911

Large crowds are turning out at the fairgrounds to see J.C. "Bud" Mars give flying demonstrations in Capt. Thomas Baldwin's plane; there was a slight mishap upon landing after his second flight yesterday; the plane hit the ground at 60 miles per hour and, before it could be stopped, dashed into the fence that surrounds the fairgrounds; the aviator was pulled from the craft unconscious, but, after medical attention, says he will make his scheduled flights.

W.D. Allen, well-known blacksmith of Marble Hill, Mo., sees the airship flights.

-- Sharon K. Sanders