Out of the past 9/10/14

1989

Circuit Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. is the guest speaker at the Old McKendree annual meeting in the afternoon; the meeting includes observance of 180 years since the organization of the congregation.

Covenant Christian Center, a nondenominational, interfaith church, begins holding services at the Show Me Center; services were previously held at the home of its pastor, the Rev. Terry Culberson, and his wife, Jannis.

1964

State College's Golden Eagle Marching Band has added another feather to its plumage; it has been invited to stage the half-time show at the professional football Playoff Bowl on Jan. 3, 1965, in the Orange Bowl at Miami; band director LeRoy Mason says the band will accept the invitation.

Arena Park took the first big step yesterday toward its annual transformation into the SEMO District Fairgrounds, when concession and livestock tents arrived on the scene; the tents arrived a half-day late, forcing the fair crews to speed up their work slightly.

1939

The Southeast Missouri Baptist Foundation is formally inaugurated at a special evening service at First Baptist Church; Dr. Shelby D. Aubuchon, dean-elect, gives the principal address.

Dr. Don E. Schooler, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, begins a series of sermons about his recent European tour; his first talk is on "Religion for These Days."

1914

Hundreds of yards of cement and stone are being poured into the river a short distance south of the foot of Independence Street to make the foundation for the sea wall, which is to connect the stone wall just completed at the south end and the concrete wall completed last year at the north end; it's all part of the riverfront improvement.

F.W. Morrison is expecting the boiler for the new boat he is building to arrive here Saturday on the steamer Cape Girardeau; he should then have the boat ready for the sand business in a short while.

-- Sharon K. Sanders