Out of the past 4/9/14

1989

Revival services begin at First Baptist Church in Jackson and will continue through April 14; the evangelist is Dr. Bill D. Whittaker, while music evangelist is Phillip B. Crosby.

A four-hour Ecumenical Pro-Life Prayer Service is held in the afternoon at St. Vincent's Catholic Church; featured speakers are the Rev. John Tackaberry, Pastor Rick Dotson, Dianne Stephens, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Perry, and representatives of Birthright and Missouri Citizens for Life.

1964

The new county school board has met and elected Bill D. Burlison as president and Ennis W. Seiler as vice president; the six-man board was elected Tuesday in the school elections; other members of the board are Dale Fronabarger, Glenn Brown, Joe Schenimann and Levi Smith Jr.

Five members of the Jackson Chapter, Future Farmers of America, have earned the degree of State Farmer: Lawson Burgfeld, Charles Hutson, Gene Hecht, Glen Nothdurft and Webster Davault; the degree is the second-highest degree that can be awarded to an FFA boy and is given on the basis of their supervised farming program and participation in FFA work.

1939

Easter. The holiday draws crowds estimated at around 12,000 persons to special services in Cape Girardeau churches and at the annual community sunrise service at Cape Rock; between 1,200 and 1,500 persons attend the Cape Rock service, a slightly smaller crowd than last year; delivering the sermon at the community event is the Rev. Don E. Schooler, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church.

A cornerstone-laying ceremony is held in the afternoon for the Church of the Nazarene, South Park Avenue and Merriwether Street; the new brick church will cost an estimated $20,000.

1914

Contracts for the construction of Washington and Lincoln schools were let last night by the school board, with Vogelsang Brothers of Cape Girardeau getting both.

The remains of R.L. Stubblefield, recorder of deeds of Scott County, who died yesterday at a St. Louis hospital following an operation for gallstones, are brought through Cape Girardeau on their way to Benton, Mo.; they are accompanied by Stubblefield's widow and Daisy Leedy.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__