Out of the past 9/5/10

25 years ago: Sept. 5, 1985

On a split vote yesterday, the Cape Girardeau City Council granted a retail liquor-by-the-drink license for a proposed tavern at 632 Broadway, despite the objections of a nearby bridal shop operator; the council approved the liquor request of Paul L. Weiss, doing business as Corky's.

Area sports fans get in the football spirit in the evening, when Central High School hosts a communitywide pep rally in front of the new gymnasium; the Tigers will inaugurate the season tomorrow night against McKinley of St. Louis.

50 years ago: Sept. 5, 1960

Labor Day. Fair and hot describes the holiday weather; the top reading is 98 degrees, which compares to 90 degrees on Labor Day a year ago; rain doesn't mar the annual Knights of Columbus picnic, held at the Knights of Columbus hall on South Spanish Street; crowds for the event are large.

Jim Reynolds is a member of the exclusive hole-in-one set; the youth, 14, let fly with a 150-yard shot on the Country Club's No. 3 hole yesterday, dropping the ball onto the green and into the cup.

75 years ago: Sept. 5, 1935

When the date for filing application for funds for Works Progress Administration projects expires tomorrow, Cape Girardeau will have asked for approximately $1,000,000 for improvements in the city; this doesn't include the application filed with the Public Works Administration for the west side sanitary sewer costing $143,000.

Federal contracts have been awarded to the Driver Construction Co. to build setback levees along the Ramsey Creek basin and the Little River Diversion Channel, south of Cape Girardeau.

100 years ago: Sept. 5, 1910

President I.R. Kelso of the Commercial Club has called a meeting of the residents of Cape Girardeau, to be held at the courthouse tomorrow evening; he will lay before the citizens the proposition of the Frisco Railroad for renewal of the franchises that have expired.

All of Cape Girardeau's schools open in the morning for registration, but regular book work won't start until tomorrow; incoming trains are filled with students attending the Normal School, St. Vincent's College, St. Vincent's Young Girls' Academy, and Moothart's Business College.

-- Sharon K. Sanders