Out of the past 11/9/08

25 years ago: Nov. 9, 1983

Jackson city police and federal officials are looking for 25 sticks of dynamite discovered missing yesterday afternoon; an anonymous caller reported that some children, while playing in the woods off Shawnee Drive, had brought home a box containing dynamite sticks.

Cape Girardeau and Scott County courts have reached a tentative agreement on a boundary question between the two counties along Cape LaCroix Creek; the discussion arose as the result of an inquiry by BioKyowa Co., which is constructing a port on the Mississippi River near the creek.

50 years ago: Nov. 9, 1958

The groundbreaking for the $250,000 education building to be built by First Baptist Church is held at the the church; taking part in the ceremony are the Rev. David E. Sutton, pastor; Alton Bray, chairman of the board of deacons; J.J. Russell, chairman of the building committee; and Fred Dormeyer, architect.

Forty Hours' Devotion comes to a close at St. Mary's Cathedral; preaching at the closing service is the Rev. J. Homer Noser of St. Louis, spiritual director of Rosati-Kain High School.

75 years ago: Nov. 9, 1933

Clinton Goyert of Cape Girardeau has been hired as a salesman for Whitledge Service Co.; until recently, Goyert was co-owner of the Electric Supply Co., but disposed of his interest to his partner, E.M. Doyle; at Whitledge, he will be in charge of sales of washers, radios and Kelvinator refrigerators.

A number of petitions are in circulation asking the Cape Girardeau City Council to apply to the Public Works Administration for funds to build a municipal power plant here.

100 years ago: Nov. 9, 1908

Regular readers of The Republican newspaper will have to get out their almanacs tomorrow, and possibly Wednesday as well; owing to the necessity of dismantling the Linotype machine and others in the move to the new newspaper building, the publishers won't issue an edition tomorrow; it is possible the equipment will be in place for a paper Wednesday.

Robert Naeter of Kechi, Kan., is in Cape Girardeau visiting his brothers, Fred, George and Harry Naeter.

-- Sharon K. Sanders