Out of the past 11/15/05

25 years ago: Nov. 15, 1980

The 31st Missourian Art Exhibit opens at city hall in Cape Girardeau; more than 220 paintings are represented by 114 artists from Southeast Missouri, western Kentucky and Southern Illinois; an estimated 3,000 people are expected to view the exhibit before it closes.

Enrollment of black and other minority students at Southeast Missouri State University has been steadily ascending for more than two decades, statistics show, despite some studies which indicate a nationwide decline in the number of blacks enrolled in higher education institutions; the number of black students at Southeast this fall has risen from a year ago, from 276 to 336.

50 years ago: Nov. 15, 1955

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, thoughts are naturally turning to the main course of the traditional holiday meal; indications are that the cost of turkeys is going to be just a bit higher than it was last year.

Missouri's Golden Troopers, drum and bugle corps of the Louis K. Juden Post of the American Legion elects officers to lead the unit through its 29th year of service to Cape Girardeau; Ralph E. Swob is elected drum major, the post first filled in 1927 by Dr. J.H. Ruff.

75 years ago: Nov. 15, 1930

Mayor Edward L. Drum indicates steps will be taken soon to relieve the floodwater situation on South Pacific in the vicinity of the residence of Judge Frank Kelly, who has threatened additional lawsuits against the city unless the problem is solved; Drum says a 24-inch storm sewer line running from Pacific Street along Independence Street west to Henderson Avenue to connect with the West End Boulevard sewer will have to be constructed.

Patrolman Morris Huckstep was slightly injured last night on Main Street, when he was struck by a street car as he was standing by an automobile giving directions to the driver.

100 years ago: Nov. 15, 1905

A.J. Hall, a well-known Frisco conductor who lived in Cape Girardeau, loses his life early in the morning while nearing St. Louis with his freight train; he falls beneath his coach and from the wound received dies three hours later in a St. Louis hospital.

F.W. Oberheide, "Snips" Krueger and Martin Krueger go out hunting and, after a strenuous day tramping, return to Cape Girardeau with a lone rabbit; they also shoot a cow that is grazing nearby, but she bellows and runs off.

-- Sharon K. Sanders