Out of the past 11/26/09

25 years ago: Nov. 26, 1984

Cape Girardeau Mayor Howard C. Tooke and several other city council members are among those attending the National League of Cities conference at Indianapolis.

It's beginning to look like Christmas in several parking lots near Kingshighway and Independence Street in Cape Girardeau; thousands of Christmas trees have arrived and more are on the way as the city's three largest tree outlets -- Kinder's Treeworks, Masters' Trees and the Evening Optimists' Tree Lot -- prepare for the season.

50 years ago: Nov. 26, 1959

Thanksgiving Day. Members of several local congregations combine for the annual union service sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Ministerial Alliance at First Christian Church; the Rev. W.T. Holland of First Baptist Church speaks on "The Elements of Thanksgiving."

The holiday brings a variety of weather to the Cape Girardeau district, including early morning sunshine, rain, frozen rain, sleet and a coating of snow, the first of the season.

75 years ago: Nov. 26, 1934

A plan for construction of an annex to the Cape Girardeau Public Library, which is deemed too small to care for the city's needs, has been suggested to Mayor Edward L. Drum by Charles L. Harrison, chairman of the library board.

In an effort to make the Community Clubhouse at Fairground Park more attractive for use during the winter months, city officials are planning to install a furnace in the clubhouse; in the past the structure has been heated, rather inconveniently, with stoves.

100 years ago: Nov. 26, 1909

Harry Naeter departs in the afternoon for Washington, D.C., to take up his duties as secretary to Rep. Charles A. Crow.

Conductor Jack McCammon of the Hoxie, Ark., train came in Monday night with his express car loaded; he picked up poultry all the way in from Hoxie and, except for 51 coops of chickens unloaded at Advance, Mo., it was all brought to Cape Girardeau; after filling the express car with poultry and eggs, several cases of eggs were placed in the smoking car.

-- Sharon K. Sanders