Out of the past 11/19/07

25 years ago: Nov. 19, 1982

Cape Girardeau will soon have its first female firefighter; Mary Mosebach, a 29-year-old Kelso, Mo., resident and a Scott City school system teacher, is one of three applicants hired by the city.

The Cape Girardeau Multipurpose Building Committee has asked the Cape Girardeau County Court to consider providing some financial support for construction of a multipurpose building.

50 years ago: Nov. 19, 1957

The Bartels Mercantile Co., for many years one of the more popular retail stores in Cape Girardeau, will close as soon as the present stock of merchandise, fixtures and store building can be sold; the announcement comes from W.G. Bartels, who owns and manages the store with the assistance of his wife; Bartels opened in 1916.

Two Cotton Belt trains, a passenger and a freight, operating on double tracks, sideswipe at a point one half mile south of Gorham, Ill., injuring 11 persons, most of them on the passenger train.

75 years ago: Nov. 19, 1932

Adjutant William H. Kelly announces the headquarters of the Salvation Army will be moved early next week from 111 Themis St. to 521 Good Hope St.; the new headquarters is in the frame portion of the Max Wielpuetz building.

William H. Eddleman, a private in the Army, has written his parents, Constable and Mrs. C.C. Eddleman, that he is enjoying his service in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; he has been there two months; Eddleman is with the 27th Infantry.

100 years ago: Nov. 19, 1907

The smelting plant in South Cape Girardeau has been taken over by the trustees of the concern; the plant was virtually abandoned by president G.W. Caudle and secretary J.M. Viernow; a petition will soon be filed by attorney I.R. Kelso in circuit court, asking that the trustees foreclose on the mortgage and sell the plant.

The big drainage case that has been on trial before Judge Shepherd at Poplar Bluff, Mo., this week and all of last week comes to an end, and the court has it under advisement; the case involves the formation of a scheme to drain Southeast Missouri swamp lands in their entirety.

-- Sharon K. Sanders