Out of the past 11/23/10

25 years ago: Nov. 23, 1985

Hundreds of area residents turn out for Cape Girardeau's annual Christmas craft shows; the bazaar sponsored by Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts and the exposition sponsored by the River Valley Crafts group are both expected to be busy again tomorrow.

More than a year after taking possession of the old shoe factory building on North Main Street, Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce officials are still trying to decide what to do with it; one idea is to use the 78-year-old brick building as an "incubator facility" for small manufacturing firms.

50 years ago: Nov. 23, 1960

Emanuel Musgraves brought down about the largest deer ever processed at the local Jackson food locker; his prize was a seven-point buck, that dressed out at 174 pounds; Musgraves was hunting from the Henry A. Loos cabin, Rocky Lodge on the St. Francis River.

Top honors in the women's division of the Eighth District Optimist Bowling Tournament held in Cape Girardeau recently were won by the team from Ste. Genevieve, Mo.; members of the team were Mrs. Reed Marts, Mrs. Ben Loyd McGee, Mrs. Robert Grass, Mrs. Kenneth Rehm and Mrs. Raymond Thomas.

75 years ago: Nov. 23, 1935

The State College Board of Regents formally accepts a collection of 10,000 specimens of fossils from A.S. Duckworth, curator of museums at the college.

The regular November term of the Common Pleas Court will convene Monday with Judge L.L. Bowman on the bench; among civil cases to be tried is a test of a new Cape Girardeau ordinance which prohibits operation of motor boats without mufflers on the west half of the Mississippi River at the edge of Cape Girardeau.

100 years ago: Nov. 23, 1910

Otto Kochtitzky, chief engineer for the Little River Drainage District, presented his resignation to the district's board of supervisors Monday; William A. O'Brien of St. Louis, a former member of the board of engineers of this district, was appointed to succeed him.

Signor G. Bartolotta and his concert company arrives on the noon Frisco train, having come there from Rolla, Mo.; they will present a concert tonight at the Normal School auditorium.

-- Sharon K. Sanders