Out of the past 11/24/04

25 years ago: Nov. 24, 1979

Mary C. Kasten, a member of the Cape Girardeau School Board for 17 years, yesterday announced her intention to run for office again; her three-year term expires in April.

Dogs -- 827 of them -- parade around show rings at the Southeast Missouri Kennel Club's 42nd all-breed dog show at the Arena Building.

50 years ago: Nov. 24, 1954

Dr. James R. Amos, director of the Missouri Division of Health, has written Mayor Narvol A. Randol declaring it is the desire of the state agency that Cape Girardeau's water supply be fluoridated and "urgently" recommending that such action be carried out by city ordinance.

Three offices are burglarized in Cape Girardeau; at the office of Edward L. Downs, lawyer, between $55 and $60 is taken from a desk drawer; the State Department of Liquor Control office on the second floor of the Farmers & Merchants Bank is entered, but nothing of value is taken; $5 is stolen from the office of the J.C. Wiley Realty Co., adjacent to the liquor control office.

75 years ago: Nov. 24, 1929

Efforts are being made to have the new Christian Science Church building on West End Boulevard completed within another week, so that the congregation may hold its first services in the structure the first Sunday in December.

Brick work on the new Christ Evangelical Church building at South Ellis and Merriwether streets has been practically completed, and only the laying of a few more bricks and placing of capstones on the tower over the main entrance of the building remain to be done to finish exterior work.

100 years ago: Nov. 24, 1904

Union Thanksgiving services are held in the morning at the Presbyterian church, with the Rev. C. Monroe preaching the sermon; William Vedder, president of the Provident Association, makes a report, and a free-will offering benefits the association.

A union service -- preached in the German language -- is held in the evening at the German Methodist Church, with the Rev. Theodore Kugler in charge; the service is largely attended.

-- Sharon K. Sanders