Out of the past 6/6/10

25 years ago: June 6, 1985

Approximately 900 pet birds at Bird-Dee Wings & Things, 107 S. Spanish St., were exterminated last night because tests on the birds at the pet shop showed positive signs of Exotic Newcastle disease; the birds were destroyed to prevent spreading of the deadly disease.

Downtown redevelopment took another step forward yesterday, when the Cape Girardeau City Council approved a beautification project involving installation of an old-fashioned street clock in the middle of the Main and Themis streets intersection.

50 years ago: June 6, 1960

The student dean's office at State College issues an earlier-than-usual appeal to townspeople to contact the school, if they will have rooms available in the fall for incoming college students; under a new enrollment system, practically all incoming freshmen will be pre-enrolled during the summer months.

Approximately $264 was stolen from the office of the Esquire Theater last night, it is reported to police by manager James Foster; thieves apparently stayed in the building after the last movie ended, because no forced entry was found.

75 years ago: June 6, 1935

With an enrollment already of 25 children, Louise M. Gross has opened her summer play school for the sixth consecutive season; she will be assisted by Myrtle Seabaugh and Mrs. W.F. Smith.

Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Youngblood, truck farmers on South Sprigg Street, have among other crops 3 1/2 acres of cabbage; one tract of 1 1/2 acres is at the north end of the road a mile south of Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. plant, and two acres south of the plant and east of the railroad lines.

100 years ago: June 6, 1910

A bunch of Cape Girardeau boys will have a fine time for the next week fishing the limpid water of Apple Creek; members of the party are Charlie and Harry Himmelberger, Joe Frates, Tom Collins and Henry Taylor; and that the cravings of hunger may be satisfied, that prince of black cooks, "Monk" Abernathy will be taken along.

While playing for the Jackson baseball team yesterday against the Advance, Mo., catcher Andrew Caldwell suffered a fractured ankle in the 12th inning.

-- Sharon K. Sanders