Out of the past 11/4/09

Members of Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau observe Reformation Day; Dr. Waldemar Degner, chairman of the Department of Exegetical Theology and associate professor at Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Ill., and Fort Wayne, Ind., is the guest preacher.

The newly appointed bishop of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Monsignor John J. Leibrecht, will formally take possession of the diocese Dec. 10 during celebration of the Eucharist at St. Mary's Cathedral.

50 years ago: Nov. 4, 1959

Cape Girardeau County, with 522 retail trade establishments in 1958, had a total volume of sales of $49,199,000 and a total county retail payroll of $4,803,000, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Commerce; of that number, the city of Cape Girardeau had 321 retail establishments and a total sales count of $35,904,000 in 1958.

Thirteen children, six girls and seven boys, are outfitted with new clothes for the winter by the Coffee Drinkers Club; the children all attend school in Cape Girardeau.

75 years ago: Nov. 4, 1934

In his first sermon since becoming presiding elder of the Cape Girardeau district of the Methodist Church, the Rev. Dawson C. Bryan occupies the pulpit at Centenary Methodist Church in the morning, speaking on the subject "Tarry at a Promise."

Sixteen wild ducks, 15 of them mallards, are killed by Ernest Goehring, Dr. Paul Nussbaum and Roy Cain of Cape Girardeau, while hunting on Thompson Bar, north of Cape Girardeau on the Mississippi River.

100 years ago: Nov. 4, 1909

Haarig will have another theater, says Herman Bock; he has begun construction of a moving picture show on Good Hope Street near the City Steam Bakery; the building will be 50 feet by 100 feet.

Another expensive and beautiful garage will soon grace Broadway; J.W. Phillips and George McBride of the Cape Girardeau Auto Co., have announced plans to put up the building and house their line of autos there; the new garage will be built on the lot between The Republican building and the Presbyterian Church.

-- Sharon K. Sanders