Out of the past 12/8/04

25 years ago: Dec. 8, 1979

Dr. Hope Smith Daugherty, winner of the Southeast Missouri State University's Alumni Merit Award in 1972, will address the 453 members of the winter commencement exercises Dec. 16 at Houck Field House.

Al Stoverink, for 18 months administrative assistant to Cape Girardeau city manager W.G. Lawley, has resigned to become city administrator in Perryville; he will assume his new duties Jan. 1.

50 years ago: Dec. 8, 1954

Maj. Gen. Charles L. Dasher Jr., deputy commander of the Fifth Army, arrived in Cape Girardeau yesterday by plane and inspected local National Guard and Army installations; after visiting the 140th Infantry headquarters at the Arena Building, he drove to Jackson to view the new armory.

Our Lady of the Cape, a grotto built as a shrine to Mary, Mother of the Miraculous Medal, is formally dedicated at St. Vincent's College; the shrine, still incomplete, is being built by students and faculty of the college.

75 years ago: Dec. 8, 1929

Prosecuting Attorney J. Grant Frye occupies the pulpit in the morning at the First Christian Church; lay speakers will be supplied for the Christian pulpit until the new pastor, the Rev. Robert C. Harrell of Lexington, Ky., assumes his duties.

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- A Missouri Pacific motor bus, loaded with football players from Crystal City, Mo., and Cape Girardeau, overturns on a curve on Highway 61 east of here in the evening, bruising the youths, but causing no serious injury.

100 years ago: Dec. 8, 1904

E. Madden and her sister have moved their millinery store from the St. Charles Hotel building to 121 N. Main St., just north of the new bank building.

G.W. Moothart, president of Moothart's Commercial Colleges, is in Cape Girardeau for a week; he is on a tour of inspection of his colleges here and at Poplar Bluff, Mo.; his headquarters are at DeSoto, Mo., where his original college is located.

-- Sharon K. Sanders