Out of the past 11/6/08

25 years ago: Nov. 6, 1983

Gerald Gibson, president of Mid-South Christian College in Senatobia, Miss., is the guest speaker for the Fall Celebration and Renewal Weekend at New Testament Christian Church.

An organ dedication and recital are held in the afternoon at First Presbyterian Church; Dr. Gary Miller, church organist and assistant professor of music at Southeast Missouri State University, presents the recital.

50 years ago: Nov. 6, 1958

Illinois' annual goose-shooting season opened yesterday, hundreds of the birds being brought down at the about 100 commercial and private hunting clubs that dot the Union County Wildlife Refuge and the Horseshoe Lake area.

Dr. Ross B. Thompson has arrived in Cape Girardeau to become medical director and surgeon at Cape Osteopathic Hospital; he comes here from Burbank, Calif., where he was chief of the surgical department of the Burbank Osteopathic Hospital.

75 years ago: Nov. 6, 1938

In his own Jackson courtroom, Judge Frank Kelly presents formal application for the incorporation of the McKendree Chapel Methodist Association, which follows the association of which Kelly was chairman and which rehabilitated the historic Methodist church; Judge Lee L. Bowman of Common Pleas Court issues the formal pro forma degree of incorporation.

Reassuming a responsibility it carried during the past year, the Cape Girardeau City Council votes to match dollars with the Central Relief Organization during the ensuing five months.

100 years ago: Nov. 6, 1908

The Daily Republican appears in abbreviated form; machinists have begun the big task of moving the big newspaper press to the company's new building in the 200 block of Broadway; the move will be done systematically and slowly, so as to interfere with business as little as possible, but it may be necessary to suspend publication next Monday while the electric motors are being moved.

Herman Bock has purchased a fine "Boston" piano from J.D. Vanetten for his Lyric Theater; the patrons seem to enjoy the music from the instrument.

-- Sharon K. Sanders