Out of the past 9/2/09

25 years ago: Sept. 2, 1984

The Dramatic Club of Hanover Lutheran Church recently had the entire area alive with the aroma of peach butter cooking; members peeled 31 bushels of peaches for the outdoor cooking; the 185 pints and 50 quarts that were made will be sold at the upcoming Harvest Festival.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- St. Ambrose Catholic Parish hosts an open house of its new educational facility and parish center in the afternoon.

50 years ago: Sept. 2, 1959

Municipal Airport Board members meet in the morning to review the administration building construction program at the city's air field and to determine if a means can be found to break a five-week delay caused by nondelivery of five door jambs.

Jackson voters will ballot Sept. 25 on the issuance of bonds in the amount of $85,000 to erect a combined city hall and public library; the city proposes to add $50,000 to that sum.

75 years ago: Sept. 2, 1934

Edwin Seibel will go to St. Louis on Tuesday to accept a position with the Chevrolet Motor Co.; he has resigned as shop foreman at Rueseler Motor Co., here, and has been succeeded in that capacity by Ray Lalumendier, a mechanic for nine years.

Labor Day will be celebrated tomorrow in Cape Girardeau with a big picnic at Fairground Park, sponsored by the Lions Club and the Parent-Teacher Association; such activities as a municipal band concert, baby show, bicycle race bathing beauty contest and doll buggy parade will fill the day.

100 years ago: Sept. 2, 1909

Otto Kochtitzky, chief engineer, and R.B. Oliver, attorney for the Little River Drainage District, are in Washington, D.C., presenting to the War Department the report of the engineers on the plans for draining Southeast Missouri.

Broadway is to have another new building: J.W. Phillips, the lumberman and automobile fancier, is having plans made for a brick building to adjoin The Republican office on the west and will use it as an automobile garage.

-- Sharon K. Sanders