Out of the past 11/24/10

25 years ago: Nov. 24, 1985

Mary Alice Amos has been appointed Dutchtown postmaster effective Dec. 6; she succeeds Kathryn B. Langston, who retired June 7.

A natural gas leak in the 200 block of South Kingshighway yesterday afternoon forced stoppage of traffic and sent the Cape Girardeau Fire Department to the scene for standby while the line was repaired; a three-inch steel line ruptured in the vicinity of the bridge recently constructed on Kingshighway.

50 years ago: Nov. 24, 1960

Thanksgiving Day. A Union Service of Thanksgiving, sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Ministerial Alliance, is held in the morning in First Presbyterian Church; the Rev. G. Kenneth Brun, pastor of Grace Methodist Church, speaks at the service.

Making the trek from the North Pole by helicopter, Santa Claus is scheduled to arrive at the Town Plaza Shopping Center on Saturday morning to officially kick off the Christmas shopping season there.

75 years ago: Nov. 24, 1935

Maple Avenue Methodist Church has paid off the debt on its church parsonage and is making plans for a special service at which a "note burning" will be the feature; the congregation recently paid off the $840 debt on the pastoral residence; the money has been raised since the Rev. J.C. McDaniel became pastor two years ago.

Two projects are to be started Tuesday and possibly two others in Cape Girardeau County as the Works Progress Administration moves toward a goal of having a person from each relief family on a job by Wednesday; the Lorimier School razing and grading job will be started Tuesday, as will a street improvement job in Jackson.

100 years ago: Nov. 24, 1910

Thanksgiving Day. A union worship service is held in the morning at the First Presbyterian Church; delivering the sermon is the Rev. H.N. McKee.

The Kirksville (Mo.) Normal School football team suffers a 51-0 trouncing at the hands of the Cape Girardeau Normal athletes in inter-Normal play; although the teams are about evenly matched in weight and strength, the locals' training under coach Henry Schulte shows through.

-- Sharon K. Sanders