Out of the past 11/3/05

25 years ago: Nov. 3, 1980

Negotiations on a new one-year contract between Cape Girardeau County Court and Cape County Private Ambulance Service Inc. are underway, and county officials say they hope to reach a final subsidy agreement by mid-November.

Ann Parkinson of Cape Girardeau is installed as Otahki Girl Scout Council president at the annual council meeting held at the University Center; Leona Bunch, Otahki Council president from 1954 to 1957, installs the new president for a two-year term.

50 years ago: Nov. 3, 1955

Announcement is made of the sale of the First National Bank Building on Main Street to Charles A. Hood, Cape Girardeau contractor; Lyman A. Matthews, president of the bank, says it will continue to occupy the structure until the new First National building at Broadway and Main Street is completed.

Bill Kuss of Bloomfield Road bagged a 97-pound buck early the first day of the season in Carter County near Van Buren, Mo.; he, his brother, James Kuss, and Monty Grimes of near Cape Girardeau return today from the hunting trip; Bill Kuss was the only one in the hunting party to bag a deer.

75 years ago: Nov. 3, 1930

Presenting two pleasing concerts, one in the afternoon to a crowd that filled Houck Field Stadium and another at night in Houck Field House, the U.S. Navy Band yesterday delighted Girardeans and the many people from Southeast Missouri who attended the events.

Funeral is held at Eagle Rock, Calif., for Col. L.B. Houck, former resident of Cape Girardeau, who died of pneumonia Oct. 31 at his home there; he was the nephew of Louis Houck and at one time was employed by his uncle in the construction and operation of his railroad enterprise.

100 years ago: Nov. 3, 1905

At a meeting in St. Louis yesterday by the trainmasters and officers of the Frisco Railroad, it was definitely decided to place a new fast train in operation between St. Louis and Memphis.

Charles Mortensen completes the stone work on the depot at Friedheim, which makes six depots he has built for the Houck Railroad this season; five of them -- at Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Oak Ridge, Daisy and Pocahontas -- are of blue stone with white trimmings, while the one at Friedheim is of red marble obtained from a quarry near that place.

-- Sharon K. Sanders