Out of the past: Sept. 3

1990

Labor Day isn't a day of rest for members of the SEMO District Fair board, as they prepare for next week's fair; about 35 volunteers brave temperatures in the 90s to begin setting up for the event.

The 25th annual Muscular Dystrophy Telethon raises approximately $219,000 in the district and $44,172,186 nationwide for the Muscular Dystrophy Association; last year the telethon raised just over $42 million nationally; the local figure tops last year's total of $206,000.

1965

The Kage School will apparently continue to operate this school year and children of most of the parents who had complained about the school's facilities will attend elsewhere, at the parents' expense; this appears to be the outcome of the controversy over the school, which resulted in two meetings between the Kage Board of Education and parents groups, and a conference between officials this morning.

A section of Interstate 55 in New Madrid County south of Sikeston, Missouri, was opened to traffic Wednesday; the section, 10 miles in length, extends from Interstate 57 just south of Sikeston to Highway 80, near Matthews, Missouri.

1940

It's back to school time for 3,200 boys and girls, when the new term opens for public and parochial schools in Cape Girardeau; for Teachers College, the first day will be Sept. 9, and Training School pupils as well will register that day; however, classes in the Training School will begin Sept. 12; St. Vincent's College also will begin Sept. 12.

Mrs. Laura Naeter, 53, wife of Fred Naeter, co-publisher of The Southeast Missourian, dies at a St. Louis hospital in the morning; Mrs. Naeter was the former Laura Masters, daughter of William and Louise Masters of Bollinger County.

1915

Hans Harthan arrived yesterday from California to take up the work formerly performed at the Normal School by professor Joe Vaeth, who is sojourning abroad for a year or two while acquiring a better command of romance languages and literature; Harthan will teach German, French and Spanish.

Walter Siemers, who recently resigned his position as a barber in Red Mabrey's shop in Haarig, left yesterday for St. Louis, where he will enter St. Louis University this fall and take up his studies in dentistry.

-- Sharon K. Sanders