Out of the past 8/26/09

25 years ago: Aug. 26, 1984

The Cinnamon Bear Preschool and Childcare Center is set to open tomorrow at 615 Bellevue St.; Kaye Clemens is owner and director of the school.

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Two prisoners in the Perry County Jail, one of whom is awaiting trial for capital murder, escape from the jail in the afternoon but are recaptured in the evening; the two escape by climbing a fence surrounding the exercise yard.

50 years ago: Aug. 26, 1959

The former office of the clerk of Common Pleas Court on the first floor of the Common Pleas Courthouse is being remodeled to provide additional municipal offices; the old wooden floor has been removed, wooden floor joists have been taken out and steel beams replaced across the room; a new concrete floor will be poured.

Police Capt. and Mrs. F.L. Schneider and children, Ellen Ann, John and Freddie, have returned home after a week's vacation in Collinsville, Ill., and St. Louis; in Collinsville, they visited her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Esicar.

75 years ago: Aug. 26, 1934

The Rev. William H. Hackman, pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, is spending a two-week vacation in Colorado; in his absence, church services are conducted by the Rev. William Asche, a young minister.

The last union service of the summer is conducted in the evening at Courthouse Park; delivering the sermon is the Rev. Ralph E. Weisser, new pastor of Christ Evangelical Church.

100 years ago: Aug. 26, 1909

Hugh Murdock of Indianapolis is in Cape Girardeau looking over property with a possible view of locating a factory here for making veneer work.

Although the official start of the Homecomers celebration at Jackson doesn't begin until this morning, the festivities were initiated last night by the illuminating of the city with thousands of electric bulbs; great crowds of people wend their way through the streets.

-- Sharon K. Sanders