Out of the past 12/28/05

25 years ago: Dec. 28, 1980

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Lynn Crader is a modern-day circuit rider; the 21-year-old resident of rural Marble Hill divides his time among three United Methodist churches at Scopus, Wesley and Lounds, Mo.

Cape Girardeau's hospitals are winding up construction projects as the old year ends; now complete and open is Southeast Missouri Hospital's new Oncology Center; two additions are well underway at Saint Francis Medical Center.

50 years ago: Dec. 28, 1955

A lease has been signed by First National Bank with Martin Operle of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., for use of property next to its new building site at Broadway and Main Street as additional parking space; the property lies west of the present parking lot and extends to within 20 feet of Spanish Street.

Prosecuting Attorney Stephen N. Limbaugh says he has received no word from the office of the attorney general regarding the method of selecting candidates for the vacant office of Common Pleas Court judge, nor on the procedure to be followed in conducting the election on Jan. 24.

75 years ago: Dec. 28, 1930

The Rev. R.M. Talbert of Cape Girardeau was selected as president of the Southeast Missouri Ministerial Institute at the organization's annual meeting recently at Poplar Bluff, Mo.; the group is composed of pastors and other ministerial representatives of the Christian churches in the district.

Cape Girardeau and the vicinity receives the heaviest snow of the season in the morning, when 1 1/2 inches of the white flakes fall.

100 years ago: Dec. 28, 1905

Work has been started on the new steel bridge that will span Little Flora Creek at Egypt Mills; G.W. Schack, who got the contract from the county court, sublet it to a bridge-building concern, but he will assist in the erection of the span; about 20 years ago, an old wooden bridge at that place was washed away, and since then the people have been unable to cross when the creek was flooded.

The steamer Grey Eagle passed down river yesterday to go into winter quarters at Paducah, Ky.; its departure spells the closing of river traffic between St. Louis and Cairo, Ill., for several weeks.

-- Sharon K. Sanders