Out of the past: Aug. 10

1991

The Downtown Merchants Association celebrates its second annual Slice of Summer, distributing watermelon to participants from the new downtown pavilion, across from Hutson's Furniture.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- State Representative Dennis Ziegenhorn, considered one of the leading candidates to succeed retiring state Sen. John Dennis, said he will stay in the House rather than try to move to the Senate next year; Ziegenhorn, a Sikeston Democrat representing the 57th District, said he plans to seek re-election to a seventh term in 1992.

1966

A general teacher shortage over the state, fostered by the effusion of federal programs and the war in Vietnam, is having its impact in the Cape Girardeau public schools; superintendent of schools Charles E. House said this is the most difficult summer he has experienced in trying to staff the schools.

Donald R. Koehler of Cape Girardeau ranked high in the recent National Pistol Match at Camp Perry, Ohio; Koehler received a silver medal, as did Stafford A. Agee of Nevada, Missouri; Kohler is a member of the National Guard team.

1941

The Rev. H.C. Croslin, pastor of Red Star Baptist Church, whose resignation becomes effective Aug. 31, has been employed by the executive committee of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky, to serve as field representative; in his new capacity, Croslin will actively canvass Missouri, Illinois and Western Kentucky.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- A baseball game here ends in the sixth inning, when the grandstand catches fire and is destroyed; nearly 400 spectators have to hurriedly abandon their seats, but none are injured; the ball game, with Sikeston's Millers playing Corning, Arkansas, ends with Sikeston leading, 6-2; the spectators decline to remain in the sun-baked field without a grandstand, and everyone goes home.

1916

Emil Laird, one of the foremost aviators of America, will furnish the spectators at the Cape Girardeau Fair this year with hair-raising thrills; Laird recently made a flight at the Elks convention at Butte, Montana, that caused him to gain fame as one of the daredevils of the air.

Ralph Emerson, the popular show man, lands his big showboat, The Emerson, at the Cape Girardeau wharf in the morning; his players will be performing "The Turning Point," a drama that ran in New York all last season with smashing success; a vaudeville show also will be presented.

-- Sharon K. Sanders