Out of the past 1/6/05

25 years ago: Jan. 6, 1980

A Twelfth Night Tree-Burning Service is held in the evening at St. Mark Lutheran Church on Cape La Croix Road; the service is held in celebration of Epiphany, which ends the Christmas season.

President Carter's decision to halt delivery of 17 million tons of grain destined for the Soviet Union from the United States has fostered various opinions by area farmers and agriculture officials on the economic well-being of grain farmers in Missouri.

50 years ago: Jan. 6, 1955

Boy Scout membership in Southeast Missouri reached an all-time high on Dec. 31; nearly 4,200 boys were registered on that date, reports council executive Lyle Holm.

W.M. Barks is re-elected president of the SEMO District Fair Association, and delegates are named to attend the Missouri Association of Fairs and Agricultural exhibits; delegates are L.C. Blattner Jr. and M. Cuskaden.

75 years ago: Jan. 6, 1930

Fifty-seven thousand acres of cut-over timberland in Pemiscot and Dunklin counties, from which an estimated $1 million of timber has been harvested in recent years, will be turned back to the state under terms of an announcement made by the Wisconsin Lumber Co. in St. Louis Saturday.

Condemnation proceedings to obtain sections of land for rights of way for highways 61 and 25 to be constructed during the year in Cape Girardeau County have been instituted at Common Pleas Court; 45 landowners were named in the petition.

100 years ago: Jan. 6, 1905

President M.E. Leming of the Commercial Club received a letter from G.B. Lesh Manufacturing Co. of Warsaw, Ind., yesterday; the head of that firm appeared before the club some time ago inquiring about the advantages of moving his factory here.

W.W. Ward and family have moved to Cape Girardeau from Chicago and are living at the home of Judge Sam Green; Ward has large real estate holdings in Scott County and has located here to be close to his property.

-- Sharon K. Sanders