Out of the past 12/13/04

25 years ago: Dec. 13, 1979

The season's first winter storm moved through the area yesterday, leaving a glaze of ice which snapped power lines, coated bridges and overpasses, and gives many schoolchildren a day off today; hardest hit was an area from Malden, Mo., to Charleston, Mo., and eastward through Southern Illinois.

Cape Girardeau County Court approves a recommendation by the county's consulting engineer, Robert Hahn, to construct bridges at both Allenville and Whitewater.

50 years ago: Dec. 13, 1954

Following a hearing, the county court takes under advisement petitions asking for the dissolution of the community of Delta as a fourth-class city; the petitions, bearing 152 names, had been filed several weeks ago.

Members of Red Star Baptist Church will hold a business meeting Wednesday to chart plans for a campaign to raise the remaining $36,000 needed to finish the half-million dollar plant; members hope to raise the money through the sale of church bonds, the plan under which most of the financing has been done.

75 years ago: Dec. 13, 1929

Arthur Klages of Cape Girar-deau was injured late yesterday when he was thrown from his wagon on U.S. 61, two miles west of the city, when it was struck by an automobile; the wagon was demolished, and Klages, in being hurled to the pavement, sustained an injury to his head.

The president of the Cotton Belt Railroad announces plans for the expenditure during 1930 of $2,336,000 for the purchase and improvement of five short lines in Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas; plans include a new freight route between St. Louis and Memphis.

100 years ago: Dec. 13, 1904

While returning home yesterday, Sam Gardner became entangled in a runaway; he was traveling the Jackson pike, when his horse got scared near the toll gate and made a dash, crashing into a telephone pole; Gardner's back was slightly injured in the mishap.

The old board of directors of the Cape Brewing Co. has been re-elected; members are William H. Coerver, Albright Walther, Herman Bock, Oscar Ruediger and William Hirsch.

-- Sharon K. Sanders