Out of the past 12/28/11

25 years ago: Dec. 28, 1986

Dr. Robert H. Hunt is guest pulpit messenger at Second Baptist Church; he is pastor of Cedar Street Baptist Church at Hayti, Mo., and is former pastor of Mercy Seat Baptist Church in Charleston, Mo.

John A. Baker III has sold his interests in Baker's Restaurant in Cape Girardeau and Danver's Restaurant in Carbondale, Ill., to accept a consultant's position with Taco John's International.

50 years ago: Dec. 28, 1961

August Boos of Cape Girardeau brings a painting done by his grandson, John Boos, 10, to The Missourian; the woodland picture was painted free hand from the boy's imagination, who used no models; the painting is on display in the newspaper office's window.

Douglas Rosenberger has been appointed local resident agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Rosenberger has worked in Southeast Missouri the past six years, being stationed at Poplar Bluff, Mo., the past two years.

75 years ago: Dec. 28, 1936

It is announced at the Cape Girardeau plant of the International Shoe Co., that effective Jan. 1 an average increase of 5 percent in day rates and for piece work will be made by the company.

Fred Oberbeck, 21, who lives 7 miles northwest of Cape Girardeau on the Perryville Road, is back home after being kidnapped yesterday and forced to drive a giant thug from Jackson to St. Louis at gunpoint.

100 years ago: Dec. 28, 1911

The annual United Daughters of the Confederacy ball was held last night at the Elks hall; nearly 100 guests were present.

Fire last night wiped out the big plant of the Phillips Fuel & Lumber Co. on Jefferson Avenue in South Cape Girardeau; the company had just stocked up on paints, nails and building hardware and was carrying a lot of other items; the office safe was found standing wide open amid the ruins, causing many to speculate that the fire had been set.

-- Sharon K. Sanders