Out of the past 10/25/11

25 years ago: Oct. 25, 1986

Winners of this year's Otto Dingledein Award from the SEMO Council on the Arts are James V. Parker, director of the Southeast Missouri State University Museum, and Grant Lund, associate professor of art at Southeast.

At a special noon meeting yesterday, city council members discussed possible names for the city-university multipurpose building; however, members can't agree on a single name and decide more talk is needed, this time with the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents.

50 years ago: Oct. 25, 1961

Bowls of chili by the thousands are dispensed at the Arena Building by members of the Kiwanis Club, engaged in their annual dawn-to-dusk fund-raising campaign; first customers are two Central High School pupils, Bob Graham and David Allen.

Voters taking part in the special election of the Jackson School District yesterday failed to approve a proposal to issue bonds of $675,000 to buy land, construct and furnish a junior high school.

75 years ago: Oct. 25, 1936

Centenary Methodist Church resumes night services; through the summer months, the Sunday night service was omitted; for this first service, Dr. R.H. Daugherty, the pastor, preaches on "Search for Certainty."

Opening at the Fox Broadway Theater is "The Big Broadcast of 1937" starring the Benny Goodman orchestra; playing piano with the orchestra is Cape Girardeau's own Jesse Stacy, son of Mr. and Mrs. F.L. Stacy.

100 years ago: Oct. 25, 1911

Because of an outbreak of typhoid at St. Vincent's College, it has been deemed wise by the faculty in charge of that institution to transfer the students to other schools until all danger from the disease has passed; the Rev. Whalen and eight students are at Saint Francis Hospital with the ailment, which is thought to have been brought to the school by some of the pupils; the college premises have been tested, but revealed no cause for the starting of the disease.

The frame dwelling of Bruno Schultz on North Henderson Avenue catches fire from a defective flue in the evening and in a few minutes burns fiercely; the fire spreads so rapidly, the family barely escapes in its nightclothes.

-- Sharon K. Sanders