Out of the past 11/18/11

25 years ago: Nov. 18, 1986

Sales of season tickets for what are considered prime seats for Southeast Missouri State University basketball games, which will be held in the university- and city-owned multipurpose building beginning next year, already have exceeded 1,300.

C. Neal Davis, a member of the Rotary Club of Cape Girardeau, has been named associate secretary for programs and development of Rotary International.

50 years ago: Nov. 18, 1961

Judge W.O. Statler of Common Pleas Court has issued an alternative writ of mandamus ordering Jackson city clerk Hubert Seabaugh to place the name of Joe Howard on the ballot for city collector or show cause why he didn't do so.

The Missourian is informed reliably that S. Crews Reynolds of Caruthersville, Mo., long a figure in Southeast Missouri Democratic affairs and prominent Bootheel landowner, will be named chairman of the State Highway Commission by Gov. John M. Dalton.

75 years ago: Nov. 18, 1936

BENTON, Mo. -- The Scott County Jail is too rickety to hold its charges; five men, including one convicted last December on a charge of complicity to murder, break out of the bastille and make their escape; two are recaptured at noon.

The Idan-Ha Coffee Shop, on the first floor of the Idan-Ha Hotel, closes for a two-week period of remodeling; a partition in the north end of the shop will be removed to give an additional space of 40 feet to the front of the building, making the room about 66 feet in length.

100 years ago: Nov. 18, 1911

Since the "white way" lighting proposition came up, there has been a great deal of discussion on the subject, especially on Broadway; it is said that several property owners are opposed to the scheme.

R.D. Randol, superintendent of the county farm, has finished the hulling of the pea crop and the baling of hay on the farm for this year, the work having been done by the machines of Froemsdorf and Schwab; 160 bushels of peas were harvested and 425 bales of hay put up.

-- Sharon K. Sanders