Out of the past 11/30/10

25 years ago: Nov. 30, 1985

The Southeast Missouri Kennel Club holds its annual fall All-Breed Dog Show at the Arena Building; 843 dogs from 35 states and one foreign country are entered in the competition.

The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Southeast Missouri has nearly completed its move from its old headquarters adjacent to the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse in Jackson to its new location on Route PP just south of town.

50 years ago: Nov. 30, 1960

On Jan. 3 Judge W.O. Statler, a civil case judge at Common Pleas Court since 1959, will find himself presiding over criminal cases as well when the restructuring of the state circuit courts becomes effective; after the first of the year, Statler will be judge of the new 32nd court circuit composed of Bollinger and Cape Girardeau counties, with circuit courts at Marble Hill, Mo., and Jackson and the Common Pleas Court in Cape Girardeau.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- A target date after the holidays has been set for the opening of Sikeston's new million-dollar campus-type high school in the southeast part of the city; a few classes have already started using the new plant.

75 years ago: Nov. 30, 1935

Cape Girardeau Central and Jackson High, unbeaten in conference football play, dominated selections of the Southeast Missouri Conference all-star events for 1935 as picked by The Missourian's All-Star Board; the Tigers landed four berths as did the Indians; representing Central are Paul Harris, John Crabtree, Paul Pruitt and Bill Hensley; Jackson players are Marion Rogers, Carl Wilhelm, Douglas Sneathen and Milton Nothduft.

Cape Girardeau was tentatively voted into the Kitty (baseball) League at a meeting of representatives of the loop at Union City, Tenn., yesterday and was given until Jan. 5 to definitely accept membership.

100 years ago: Nov. 30, 1910

Will Mars, the genial mail carrier on rural route No. 4, will deliver mail in the morning for the first time in two weeks, having been laid up that length of time by a crippled back, the result of a fall at Trinity Lutheran Church.

An appreciative crowd applauds the efforts of the students at St. Vincent's College, who present "Scepter and Sword," a strong play of the times of King Edward.

-- Sharon K. Sanders