Out of the past 11/6/10

25 years ago: Nov. 6, 1985

City Councilman Donald R. Strohmeyer is the first candidate to file for mayor of Cape Girardeau; his filing is followed by Southeast Missouri State University senior Ken Richardson and Wetterau warehouse manager B. Hugh Smith, both of whom file for a seat on the City Council.

East Cape County Volunteer Fire Department, Inc., has petitioned Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court seeking to become incorporated as a fire protection district.

50 years ago: Nov. 6, 1960

Leaders of 19 Lutheran churches in the Cape Girardeau Circuit assemble in the evening in Trinity School at Cape Girardeau for the annual circuit meeting; chairman of the group is George Hilpert of Gordonville.

Cape Girardeau residents won't need alarm clocks Tuesday morning thanks to the fire department and the Jaycees; in cooperation with the Jaycees' "Get out the vote" campaign, the city's firemen will sound sirens at different times during election day, calling voters to the polls.

75 years ago: Nov. 6, 1935

Mrs. Matilda Tribbelhorn Klostermann, 87, widow of Louis F. Klostermann, former Cape Girardeau banker, postmaster and merchant, died yesterday at her home, 322 S. Spanish St.

Members of the Lions Club vote at their meeting to again furnish milk to needy school children during the school term; school superintendent Louis J. Schultz, a member of the club, points out that there about 100 children in the public schools who don't get sufficient food at lunch time to carry them through the day.

100 years ago: Nov. 6, 1910

Ina Ingersoll of Altoona, Iowa, has arrived to take charge of the work as deaconess for the Presbyterian Church and will succeed Van Evera in the work at the West End mission.

A mass meeting is held in the evening at Centenary Methodist Church in the cause of temperance; represented at the meeting are the Baptist, Christian, German and English Methodist and Presbyterian churches; the Rev. C.W. Swope delivers one of his characteristic addresses on the Tenth Amendment.

-- Sharon K. Sanders