25 years ago: March 18, 1987

Law enforcement personnel spent five hours Monday night searching northern Cape Girardeau County for the man who allegedly shot and stabbed a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper; trooper John Adams is listed in stable condition in the intensive care unit at St. Louis University Hospital; his alleged attacker committed suicide.

Ron Haggard of El Dorado Springs, Mo., has been hired by the Cape Girardeau School Board as the new principal of Franklin Elementary School.

50 years ago: March 18, 1962

A Chaffee, Mo., Naval reservist, along on a training flight to check flight safety precautions and observe the crew's reaction in case of emergency, gets his chance unexpectedly when the patrol bomber ditches in the Gulf of Mexico; along with Capt. Dan H. Frissell of Chaffee, Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate Lewis F. Hux of Essex, Mo., is aboard the plane; no one is injured in the incident.

Guest speaker for the 99th anniversary banquet of St. James AME Church will be Dr. Harry M. Davis, presiding elder of the St. Louis District; the celebration will be held Thursday night at the church.

75 years ago: March 18, 1937

Formal notice was served on the city late yesterday afternoon by Maj. Giboney Houck, attorney for the Aquamsi Land Co., that he would appear before Circuit Judge Frank Kelley on Saturday to get an injunction to prevent the city from purchasing the new fairgrounds west of town.

Nearly 500 horses, mostly halter-broke animals from the dust bowl plains and slopes of the Rockies, were sold yesterday in spirited bidding at the Anderson Horse & Mule Commission Co. yards on U.S. 61 west of the city; the business has been operating two years.

100 years ago: March 18, 1912

F. Bastin of Springfield, Mo., is in Cape Girardeau with a crew of men to rewire and install new lights in the Frisco freight depot and in the passenger station.

Dr. J.W. Berry, who has had a successful practice in Callaway County for 15 years, opens an office for the practice of medicine here; Berry moved his family here in January but has spent much of his time in postgraduate work in Chicago.

-- Sharon K. Sanders