Out of the past 11/12/11

25 years ago: Nov. 12, 1986

A local industrial equipment company -- Erb Industrial Equipment Co., Inc. -- has filed suit against the city of Cape Girardeau for allegedly imposing on the company a tax which it claims is unconstitutional.

CAIRO, Ill. -- The financially-troubled Southern Medical Center will halt its in-patient services here Dec. 1; area hospitals, including those at Cape Girardeau and Sikeston, Mo., will likely experience an increase in patients as a result of the action.

50 years ago: Nov. 12, 1961

New Testament Baptist Church observes its second anniversary with an all-day service, featuring the Rev. C. Raymond Bugg as speaker; a basket dinner is held at noon; pastor the Cape Rock Drive church is the Rev. Ellis Whittaker.

The ring of the village blacksmith at work can still be heard at Millersville, where Clyde A. Statler continues the occupation he has followed virtually all of his life; his shop is at his home, a quarter-mile west of Millersville on Highway 72.

75 years ago: Nov. 12, 1936

A dog, which is believed to be infested with rabies and which bit two children and is thought to have bitten dozens of dogs, is slain in Cape Girardeau after an all-night hunt; police chief H.F. Wickham issues a warning that all dog owners are to keep their animals on their own premises for close observation; the infected dog was seen wandering all over town.

R.F. O'Connell has purchased the Star Lunch Room, 631 Good Hope St., and has the establishment open for business.

100 years ago: Nov. 12, 1911

The Rev. W.A. Todd of Huntsville, Mo., who is returning home from a visit to Texas, preaches at both the morning and evening services at First Baptist Church.

Christine I. Tingling, formerly of London, but now of Norfolk, Va., speaks in the evening at Centenary Methodist Church; she is a lecturer for the scientific temperance instruction department of the national Women's Christian Temperance Union.

-- Sharon K. Sanders