Out of the past 11/11/05

25 years ago: Nov. 11, 1980

Veterans Day. A day to remember the sacrifices of the nation's veterans is marked by a parade down Broadway and a rally with speeches at city hall; guest speaker is Ron Taggert, assistant national commander of the Disabled American Veterans.

The federal government is considering budget cuts that could result in the closing of U.S. District Court facilities in Cape Girardeau, says U.S. District Judge H. Kenneth Wangelin.

50 years ago: Nov. 11, 1955

Rush H. Limbaugh, Cape Girardeau attorney and president of the Missouri Bar, speaks before a Veterans Day crowd at the memorial columns in Capaha Park; the program culminates a street parade of bands and military units arranged by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion posts of Cape Girardeau.

Currency and a quantity of narcotics were stolen by methodically working thieves who last night ransacked the offices of 14 Cape Girardeau doctors and dentists, and a drug store; 12 offices and the pharmacy in the Medical Arts Building, 937 Broadway, and Dr. William O.L. Seabaugh's office, 24 N. Sprigg, were entered and various sums of money taken from each; the narcotics were taken from the pharmacy.

75 years ago: Nov. 11, 1930

With no special program for the day planned, Armistice Day in Cape Girardeau is observed with programs confined to the schools, and with no general cessation of business; only the banks are closed all day.

Three Cape Girardeau men narrowly escaped injury yesterday, when an airplane in which they were returning to the city from a hunting expedition crashed into a tree top two miles south of Millersville and was demolished; Milburn Miller, pilot of the craft, wasn't injured.

100 years ago: Nov. 11, 1905

Judge R.G. Ranney goes to New Madrid, Mo., where he will seek an order of mandamus from the circuit court on the Cape Girardeau school board and superintendent, who have refused to admit his child to the first grade class at Lorimier School; the trouble arises from a rule that a child cannot enter the first-grade class unless he was present at the first day of term.

At the 11th hour, the Cairo, Ill., football team telephones the Normal School that it would be impossible to keep its gridiron appointment with the Normal's team; apparently, the Cairo team was too badly injured in a recent game with Paducah, Ky., to come here.

-- Sharon K. Sanders