Out of the past 10/29/14

1989

Reformation Day services are held at Trinity Lutheran Church; Dr. Robert Sauer, third vice president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, preaches on "Knowing the Truth That Makes Us Free."

Homecoming is being celebrated at Southeast Missouri State University this weekend; after yesterday's parade down Broadway, a festive crowd watched the football Indians rout the Missouri Western Griffons, 49-18.

1964

State College has given its official approval for the Golden Eagles Marching Band to perform in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 3 in Miami at the halftime of the National Football League Pro Football Bowl; LeRoy Mason, director of the band, says its 145 members will seek to raise $4,500 to meet expenses.

Guest artist for the 18th annual Missourian Art Exhibition on Nov. 21 and 22 will be Charles F. Galt of St. Louis; Galt, hailed by both critics and professional painters as a portrait artist of the highest caliber, will exhibit paintings never before shown publicly.

1939

Porter Heaps, a nationally known organist, gives a recital at First Baptist Church in the afternoon in celebration of the installation of a new organ.

The Rev. J. Linn Haw, new pastor of Maple Avenue Methodist Church, comes from a family of Methodists that dates back to the time of great activity at Old McKendree Chapel, the first Methodist church west of the Mississippi River; his grandfather, the Rev. James Haw, was pastor of the Cape Girardeau Circuit when his father, Dr. J.L. Haw, was born in 1836.

1914

Every train last night and today has brought in its quota of teachers for the annual gathering of Southeast Missouri instructors; professor A.W. Vaughan, chairman of the accommodations committee, with a corps of assistants and 20 high school boys to act as guides, are kept busy assigning visitors to their places of entertainment; the convention will open tonight.

While much "settling in" is still yet to do, the Sisters of Saint Francis have their new hospital on Good Hope Street in operation; everything has been moved over from the old building, the bell has been blessed and installed, and the furniture is being rapidly put into place.

-- Sharon K. Sanders