Out of the past 11/22/11

25 years ago: Nov. 22, 1986

All bridges in Cape Girardeau County soon will be posted with weight load limits under a federally ordered program, says associate county commissioner Leonard Sander; the signs for the 101 bridges in the county road system are now being made by the Department of Corrections in Jefferson City.

Fountainbleau Lodge has opened at 2001 Kingshighway; the 60-bed, residential care facility admitted its first resident this week.

50 years ago: Nov. 22, 1961

Lt. Herbert F. Wickham of the State Highway Patrol, former patrol officer and chief of police in Cape Girardeau, is wounded in the hand in a gunbattle with a farmer at his hill country dwelling near Branson, Mo.; Greene County sheriff Roy Wade is shot in the leg and seriously wounded.

Martin Krueger, 84, former city commissioner in Cape Girardeau and for a number of years a resident of Madison County, dies at Fredericktown, Mo.

75 years ago: Nov. 22, 1936

About 300 people from six Nazarene churches in this zone attend a Sunday school rally at the local Nazarene Church; the principal address is given by the Rev. K.F. Johnson, an evangelist here conducting a revival.

The Rev. Holbert Peterson, pastor of the Baptist Church at Brookport, Ill., is called by the Red Star Baptist Church congregation as its pastor; he did not accept the call, pending a conference with the board of members.

100 years ago: Nov. 22, 1911

Two representatives of the Martell Automatic Heater Co. are again here to consult with the Commercial Club regarding the establishing of their factory in Cape Girardeau.

The one-story frame house owned and occupied by Harry E. Johnson and family, near the bridge on Sprigg Street in the south end of the city, was destroyed by fire last night, when a lamp left burning exploded; the family lost nearly everything.

-- Sharon K. Sanders