Out of the past 11/3/11

25 years ago: Nov. 3, 1986

Marge McAnally turns a part-time hobby into a full-time job, opening the Pie and Cake Factory at 115 Broadway.

A business incubator system that would provide support and information for new companies has received a tentative vote of support from a Southeast Missouri State University study; but the study indicates that the old Florsheim Shoe factory on North Main Street may not be feasible for the incubator.

50 years ago: Nov. 3, 1961

The small building across from the Missourian has been razed for parking; the old building was built decades ago as an appendage to the old Opera House and it was once used by the late Dr. C.E. Schuchert as a dental office.

Parched Cape Girardeau County pastures and infant crops were soaked by a drought-breaking 2-inch-plus overnight rain, described as ideal from an agricultural standpoint; but the same precipitation kept the Cape Girardeau street department personnel on the job all night and into this morning.

75 years ago: Nov. 3, 1936

People examined the wreckage left by a windstorm that struck Haarig in 1936. At the left was the Gross & Ruh market. (Missourian archives photo by G.D. "Frony" Fronabarger)

A terrific windstorm, which at times reached cyclonic proportions, struck the southwest and south sections of Cape Girardeau overnight, venting its fury on the Good Hope Street business district and causing damage estimated at $50,000 to $75,000; roofs were torn off, garages tumbled over, an automobile turned upside down, trees were uprooted, and sheet iron roofing material was tossed and twisted like so much straw.

Today's presidential election promises to be record breaking; by noon, 3,328 voters cast ballots, 550 more than the number voting at noon in the presidential election four years ago.

100 years ago: Nov. 3, 1911

A bowling club will organize this evening by a dozen Cape Girardeau ladies and gentlemen who pursue this amusement in the winter months; members of the club are Mr. and Mrs. M.J. Koeck, Mrs. and Mrs. George A. Bell, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Alt, Misses Harrison and Patton, Mrs. Boone, and Messrs Overstolz, Zoelsmann and Dempsey.

J.G. Sarius, Frisco freight agent at Cape Girardeau, has purchased the Clippard property on North Street, and E.M. Ervin has bought a home on South Frederick Street.

-- Sharon K. Sanders