Out of the past 11/2/09

25 years ago: Nov. 2, 1984

With varying degrees of damage to businesses and temporary traffic problems, west Cape Girardeau spent most of yesterday treading water after receiving a record rainfall; several businesses along Kingshighway from Bloomfield Road to just north of Independence Street, and a section of Kingshighway near Route W received water damage when Walker and Cape LaCroix creeks overflowed, spreading out in the several-block business district.

Hartmarx Corp., the owner and operator of Thorngate Ltd. in Cape Girardeau and Chaffee, Mo., is considering expanding its operations at both sites.

50 years ago: Nov. 2, 1959

Although complaints were so numerous Halloween night that officers couldn't get them all down on record, only three youths were picked up and brought to the station for vandalism; the trio was from Bernie, Mo.; they removed a white picket fence at a residence on South Pacific Street and were intercepted by police as they carried it off down the street.

The State College Indians have only the Warrensburg Mules to defeat there Saturday afternoon to cop their third straight MIAA Conference championship and the sixth title in the history of the conference.

75 years ago: Nov. 2, 1934

Cape Girardeau Mayor Edward L. Drum reveals that the city's application to the federal government for funds to construct a municipal electric light and power plant has been refused by the Public Works Administration board, which passes on such requests.

Boy Scouts by the hundreds are in Cape Girardeau for the annual roundup of the Southeast Missouri Area Council; 662 Scouts, Cubs and leaders participate in the frolic.

100 years ago: Nov. 2, 1909

Broadway will get brand new granite paving blocks instead of secondhand material from St. Louis; this news was announced in the council meeting last night by a representative of the Kettle Rivers Quarry Co.; the blocks will be quarried at Knob Lick, Mo.

In other city council action, the contract to pave Spanish Street with creosoted wood blocks was awarded to the Kettle Rivers company, its bid being for $2.84 per square yard for the street paving and 60 cents per lineal foot for the curbs and gutters.

-- Sharon K. Sanders