Out of the past 11/29/11

25 years ago: Nov. 29, 1986

A downtown Cape Girardeau tradition -- Hutson's Fire Furniture's animated holiday windows -- was unveiled Thanksgiving, marking the 26th year the business has delighted shoppers with Christmas scenes.

The county commission on Wednesday approved a request from the Industrial Development Authority that up to $7 million in "qualified" bonds be sold to finance construction of an addition to Cape Retirement Community; the expansion will be at the northeast corner of Independence Street and Mount Auburn Road.

50 years ago: Nov. 29, 1961

Construction work on Interstate 55 has slowed considerably with the onset of fall rains and will come to a halt when winter weather arrives; so far, about two-thirds of all grading work in this sector has been completed.

The two-story frame house which has stood in the 600 block of William Street between the parsonage of St. Mary's Cathedral and the Sisters of Notre Dame Convent is being razed.

75 years ago: Nov. 29, 1936

Nine Protestant congregations in Cape Girardeau kick off the eight-day Preaching Mission at four churches here; mission services begin at the Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Emerton Carroll of Kennett, Mo., filling the pulpit.

Cape Girardeau Central, the only high school team in Southeast Missouri of 14 to go through the football season without a defeat or a tie, placed six players on the Southeast Missouri all-star team: Bill Hensley, left tackle; Ed Arnoldi, center; Bill Kies, right end; Carl Mayer, quarterback; Walter Leher, halfback, and John Crabtree, fullback; the Jackson Indians placed two players on the first team, Milton Nothdurft at left end and Larry Loss at right guard.

100 years ago: Nov. 29, 1911

A Hardin mogul engine, with a cylinder 18 by 24, weighing 50 tons, has been received by the Cape Girardeau & Chester Railroad Co.; it will be put into service on the Cape Girardeau-Perryville run tomorrow morning; it is a larger engine then any in use by the Houck road.

Frisco engineer Arthur Hardin of Cape Girardeau is instantly killed, when he strikes a cow on the track two miles north of Hayti, Mo., as he comes north on his regular run between Caruthersville, Mo., and Cape Girardeau; the engine goes over the cow, causing it to derail and turn over down an embankment.

-- Sharon K. Sanders