Out of the past 12/13/10

25 years ago: Dec. 13, 1985

The first snowstorm of the season moved into Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois during the night, making roadways slippery and contributing to a number of minor accidents; school children throughout the area get a day off.

The Cape Girardeau Convention and Tourism Bureau would operate on a budget of $145,000 next year under an agreement with the city slated for city council consideration next week.

50 years ago: Dec. 13, 1960

Cape Girardeau City Council members, on advice of counsel, decline to answer a series of questions directed at them when R.P. Smith, attorney for Local 1084, Missouri State Council of Fire Fighters, seeks to take depositions in the firefighters' attempt to obtain a length-of-service pay increase.

ANNA, Ill. -- The city of Anna is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person who turned on the city fire hydrant Sunday night; 40,000 gallons of water were lost.

75 years ago: Dec. 13, 1935

ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Court of Appeals upholds Special Commissioner Rush H. Limbaugh in his report that a "gift of God" baby claimed both by Anna Ware, unwed servant girl, and Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, former society matron, was the child of Ware.

Aileen Lorberg, teacher at May Greene School, has been notified of a $50 award for an article she entered in a nationwide teachers' travel contest sponsored by the Instructor, educational magazine.

100 years ago: Dec. 13, 1910

Scott County Sheriff Gober is faced with caring for 47 healthy mules, seized recently along with the other equipment of the Ryan & Rogers Construction Co., at the instance of the Cape Girardeau & Thebes Terminal Railroad; the railroad has accused the construction company of damaging its property by blocking its tracks south of Cape Girardeau.

The Mound City Corrugated Paper Box Co. of St. Louis has purchased the patent rights of certain box machines in the big Standard basket and veneer plant here, owned by E.L. Walker, and will soon begin the manufacture of a new kind of box; J.A. Clark, general manager of the Mound City company, is here to take charge of the local plant and will move his family to Cape Girardeau after the holidays.

-- Sharon K. Sanders