Out of the past 9/4/13

1988

The Rev. Helmuth Sylvester, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Egypt Mills, celebrates 50 years in the ministry during the Sunday service; a son-in-law, the Rev. Edward Bruning of Oklahoma City, delivers the sermon.

Mr. and Mrs. Czeslaw Zielinski of Nashville, Tenn., formerly of Cape Girardeau, are in concert at Bloomfield Road Baptist Church during the morning worship service; the couple is accompanied at the piano by Dr. John Shelton, a professor at Southeast Missouri State University.

1963

Old McDonald, a pacer owned by D.F. Elledge of Lutesville, Mo., was the first arrival during the weekend for the SEMO District Fair; bringing the horse to the fair was Sheila Elledge, a Woodland High School sophomore; the fair will begin Tuesday.

W.W. Crites, president of the Jackson School Board, yesterday turned the first spade of earth for the new $596,497 junior high school building; representatives from civic organizations, school officials and others took part in the brief ceremony on the site for the new school on Highway 72, near Pioneer Orchard.

1938

The Rev. B.L. Wilson, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, delivers his farewell sermon as pastor of the church; he will be succeeded here Sept. 18 by the Rev. C.E. Feshman, who has been pastor at Valley Park, Mo., near St. Louis.

Services at Centenary Methodist Church are dismissed early to give those attending an opportunity to go to the memorial service at Fort D in connection with the American Legion convention.

1913

Cape Girardeau's special health officer, Charles F. Stone, has been instructed to look after the moral health of Courthouse Park; he has been assigned to duty in the park each day from noon until midnight, with the instruction to clean up the habits of undesirables who have been infesting the park at night.

Cape Girardeau has lost its most distinguished citizens; Mr. and Mrs. Lum Sing and their son, Jimmie, have left to make their home in St. Louis, where they have bought a grocery; the family's Chinese laundry on Broadway, near Sprigg Street, has been sold to Lum's two brothers.

-- Sharon K. Sanders