Out of the past 12/6/04

25 years ago: Dec. , 1979

Declaring the city of Cape Girardeau is doing an inadequate job of furnishing municipal services within its present boundaries, Circuit Judge William L. Ragland has denied the city's request to annex 4,350 acres of Cape Girardeau County land; the ruling says the area proposed for annexation was too extensive.

After more than an hour of debate and two deadlocked votes, the Illmo and Scott City consolidation commissioners finally agreed last night to propose the name "Scott City" on the next, and last, consolidation ballot to be considered next spring.

50 years ago: Dec. 6, 1954

Scattered minor damage was done early yesterday and through the day by a hard-driving rain and windstorm out of the north-northeast; the rain that accompanied the storm, blown like shot before the wind, measured 2.78 inches on the riverfront gauge.

Close to 1,500 people signed the guest registers during the two-day Missourian Art Exhibition over the weekend; guest artist Siegfried Reinhardt called the attendance "amazing."

75 years ago: Dec. 6, 1929

Here to spend the winter in a sheltered harbor described as the best on the upper reaches of the river, the federal government's northern Mississippi fleet is tied up in a harbor near the cement plant on the south side; 40 boats have already arrived, and they will soon be augmented by other craft and their crews.

A.W. Zimmer Jr. has been appointed clerk of the Cape Girardeau Common Pleas Court by Gov. Henry S. Caulfield; he succeeds the late Charles W. Desselmann.

100 years ago: Dec. 6, 1904

Santa Claus invites youngsters to write him letters in care of The Daily Republican; the letters will be printed in the newspaper; the best letter written by a boy under 9 years will receive a fine football, and the girl under 9 with the best letter will receive a fine, big doll.

Notice has been given that the firm of Bahn Bros., hardware dealers, has dissolved, G.W. Bahn Jr., retiring; the business will be conducted as in the past by W.C. Bahn.

-- Sharon K. Sanders