Out of the past 11/27/09

25 years ago: Nov. 27, 1984

Rep. Marvin Proffer is confident the Missouri Legislature will appropriate its portion of the matching funds needed for the construction of a proposed veterans home in Cape Girardeau County; this could mean construction on the facility could begin as early as next year on a 21-acre tract owned by the county, behind Memorial Park Cemetery.

Edwin R. Puls has announced his semiretirement as president of Cape County Bank at the end of the year.

50 years ago: Nov. 27, 1959

Where First National Bank once stood on Main Street in Cape Girardeau, only a pile of rubble remains; the owner, Charles Hood, decided to raze the entire building and construct a new one.

Led by halfback Bob Nicolini with two touchdowns and the fine power running of Don Lewis, the Poplar Bluff (Mo.) High Mules retained the "Silver Boot" for the third straight year and took fourth place in the Big Eight Conference standings by beating the Central High Tigers 28-13 at Houck Stadium in the last Thanksgiving Day football game to be played in Cape Girardeau.

75 years ago: Nov. 27, 1934

Around 300 pigs get new homes under a new deal; the pigs are distributed to needy families of Cape Girardeau County, after farmers, beneficiaries under the government's reduction program, bring them to Jackson; the shoats will be butchered by the people receiving them.

Lightning, during a severe storm, "runs" into the Missouri Utilities Co. power plant and ignites the huge switchboard, temporarily throwing Cape Girardeau into darkness; the power is out for 24 minutes in some sections, two hours in others.

100 years ago: Nov. 27, 1909

Thursday and Friday, the Most Rev. John Glennon, archbishop of St. Louis, confirmed a class of 60 at St. Mary's Catholic Church and 100 at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church; after dinner at St. Vincent's College Friday, he departed by automobile for Kelso and Hamburg, Mo.

The Schaefer & Roeller distillery at Appleton, Mo., has suspended operations for the repairing of the furnace of the plant; work should resume Jan. 1.

-- Sharon K. Sanders