25 years ago: Aug. 28, 1985

The Jackson R-2 Board of Education has agreed to a temporary plan that will allow about 25 youngsters living in Hillcrest Manor Subdivision to continue to attend Jackson schools this year as non-resident students, because it recently was discovered they live in the Cape Girardeau School District.

David and Patty Dow have purchased the Fairway Market, 1231 N. Main St., from Bob and Irma Ward, who have owned and operated the grocery for the past 30 years and are now retiring.

50 years ago: Aug. 28, 1960

The Rev. Martin Torbitzky of the Emanuel United Church of Christ at Jackson is guest minister at Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church at Cape Girardeau; the pastor, the Rev. Robert McPherson, and his family are on a vacation trip.

The spacious school grounds at Nell Holcomb School teams with activity in the afternoon, as hundreds of people gather outside the new elementary school for the dedication program; guest speaker is Rush H. Limbaugh Jr.

75 years ago: Aug. 28, 1935

Judge Frank Kelly, chairman of the Old McKendree Chapel Association, announces that Dr. Cameron Harmon, president of McKendree College at Lebanon, Ill., has accepted an invitation to make the principal address at the annual service at the chapel on Sept. 15.

A crowd estimated at between 3,000 and 5,000 attends the opening of the 1935 Homecomers Reunion in the evening; aiding the impressive ceremony is the Stalcup orchestra; Isabella Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson of Burfordville, is crowned queen of the festival.

100 years ago: Aug. 28, 1910

No preaching services are held at First Christian Church, as the pastor, Elder H.N. McKee, is in Bollinger County.

Seventeen young men travel to Three Mile Creek on their "wheels" in the afternoon; they have a fine time eating watermelons and paddling in the waters of the creek; the bicyclists are Will Rodgers, Alvin Mogler, Charlie Whitener, Oscar Kaiser, Martin and Robert Bierschwal, Roy Cooper, Dave Conrad, Ernest and Ed Goehring, Will Koch, Otto Brunke, Dutch Koch, Julien Stone, Walter Koch, Tom Danks and Bill Heise.

-- Sharon K. Sanders