Out of the past: April 4

1993

Ann B. Sherer, consecrated as bishop of the Missouri Area in 1992, preaches during the morning worship service at Centenary United Methodist Church, her topic being "Eager Every Morning"; prior to her ordination, she served as senior pastor of Westbury United Methodist Church in Houston.

The Rev. Scott A. Moon was recently named recipient of the Bishop James C. Baker Award for graduate studies; the award is administered by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church; Moon is Wesley House director and campus minister at Southeast Missouri State University and pastor of Third Street United Methodist Church.

1968

Torrential rains with the full scale accompaniment -- thunder, lightning, winds, hail and flash floods -- hit the Cape Girardeau area and surrounding communities in a series last night; storm warnings were out, and many residents went to their basements or other storm shelters; Walker Creek was out of its banks, as was Cape LaCroix Creek west of Highway 61.

The end of stock car racing at Arena Park is in sight; there will be no such sport at this location after the close of the 1969 racing season through action taken last night by the Cape Girardeau City Council; stock car racing at the park, almost in the heart of the city, has long drawn criticism from many living in the immediate area and others residing as much as two miles away because of the noise and dust.

1943

Professor A.C. Magill of Teachers College is speaker at the morning services at Maple Avenue Methodist Church; the pastor, the Rev. J.E. Isbell, underwent an appendectomy March 23 at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis; he returned home Friday and is recovering satisfactorily.

Writing the climax to the spring training season of the St. Louis Browns in Cape Girardeau, a crowd of around 4,000 fans gathers at Fairground Park in the afternoon to see their adopted Browns clash with a Navy team from St. Louis, heavily studded with big league performers off baseball duty for the duration; umpiring the doubleheader is Dizzy Dean, the once great hurler of the Cardinals.

1918

Ben Masters, present clerk of the circuit court of Cape Girardeau County, tells a reporter for The Missourian in Jackson he will seek re-election in the primary to be held in August.

The Leming Lumber Co. ships a small log engine to Cape Girardeau from one of its log camps; it is paraded through the streets of Cape Girardeau to a machine shop, where it will be made into a standard gauge engine for log hauling.

-- Sharon K. Sanders