Out of the past 6/5/13

1988

Theological candidate David J. Webber is ordained and installed as pastor of Scriptural Evangelical Lutheran Church on Bend Road.

More than 200 persons attend the dedication ceremonies for the new Visitor Center at Trail of Tears State Park; guest speaker at the event is John Ketcher, deputy chief of the Cherokee Nation, headquartered in Tahlequah, Okla.

1963

Continued brisk residential building activity and a large apartment house project pushed the value of last month's building permit issues to $618,750 and kept this year's declared dollar cost of construction well ahead of last year; the 29-unit apartment house will be built off North Sprigg Street.

Two Cape Girardeau police officers have been promoted to the rank of sergeant: Robert E. Gass, 33, and Benny R. Hinton, 24.

1938

The Rev. Marvin Reichert, new pastor of First English Lutheran Church, and his wife arrived last week to take up their residence here; Reichert recently graduated from the Lutheran Seminary at Maywood, Ill., and was married May 28 to Janice Hunt of Davenport, Iowa.

A sundial, the community's memorial to W.F.D. Batjer, former secretary of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce and a civic leader may years, is unveiled at exercises in Courthouse Park in the afternoon; the sundial, located in front of the library building, is mounted on a granite pedestal, quarried from the natural formations of the stone at Graniteville, Mo.

1913

White flags are being posted on houses about town that are hosting prayer meetings in support of the McConnell tabernacle meeting; something like 1,500 persons were gathered at the tabernacle last night, when the place was thrown into darkness; undeterred, the choir kept singing, the congregation chiming in.

Jack Kennedy, who served 17 years in the Missouri penitentiary for train robbery, is here to show his moving picture films at the Grand Theater, and to lecture on how easy it is to get in trouble and how hard it is to get out.

-- Sharon K. Sanders