Out of the past 11/20/10

25 years ago: Nov. 20, 1985

Cape Girardeau and Scott counties lead the Southeast Missouri area in the number of applications for outlets to sell Missouri Lottery tickets when the instant game starts in January; more than 4,000 applications have been received, 52 from Cape County and 37 from Scott.

The predicted crest of the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau has been revised upward and moved back a day; the river is at 36.8 feet today and is expected to crest here Sunday night at 41.2 feet.

50 years ago: Nov. 20, 1960

Dr. H.H. McGinty, who since 1947 has been editor of "The Word and Way," official publication of the Missouri Baptist Convention, is guest preacher at the First Baptist Church; he served the local congregation as pastor from 1935 until he resigned to assume his present position.

Aileen D. Lorberg, author of the recently published teen-age novel, "Lookout Summer," is honored at a tea at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Hill, 508 N. West End Blvd.

75 years ago: Nov. 20, 1935

Denver M. Wright's party of wolf hunters -- consisting of four men and six wolf-hunting dogs -- sets off into the hills northeast of New Wells for its first major thrust after the varmints since camp was set up Saturday near Apple Creek.

Hundreds more of this district's relief clients, men and women, are being placed in jobs this week, says Works Project Administration director C.L. Blanton of Sikeston, Mo.; in fact, he says, a member from each family on relief, as of May 1, is to be working by a week from today under present plans; that total is 3,604 persons.

100 years ago: Nov. 20, 1910

Special services are held at Centenary Methodist Church; the morning service is especially for old people, at which old-time hymns are sung; the evening service is in charge of the women of the home mission society.

An Advance, Mo., man, incarcerated for stabbing another man in a drunken brawl last night, is killed when the Allenville town calaboose burns early in the morning.

-- Sharon K. Sanders