Out of the past 5/15/13

1988

The Third Sunday in May service is held at Old Apple Creek Church near Pocahontas, with the Rev. Evelyn Fulton, executive presbyter of Giddings-Lovejoy Presbyterian Church of St. Louis, as guest speaker; the historic church was founded in 1821 and is one of the oldest Presbyterian churches west of the Mississippi River.

Country music star Reba McIntire performs before a crowd of 3,123 at the Show Me Center in the evening.

1963

Cape Girardeau watches and listens and joins the nation in an outburst of pride as astronaut Gordon Cooper whirls around the globe at 300 miles a minute and finds the experience "great sport."

The Jackson School Board has voted to offer a contract to Wayne D. Adams for the job of high school principal for the coming school year; Adams is presently assistant principal and has been acting principal during the illness of William O. LaMont, who died several days ago.

1938

A number of Cape Girardeau churches suspend their morning worship services and others hold them earlier than normal to allow their members to attend the baccalaureate at the State Teachers College at 11 a.m..

The Rev. Marvin Reichert of Chicago, who was recently elected pastor of the First English Lutheran Church here, conducts the morning service at the church; the new pastor, who is completing his studies at the Lutheran seminary at Maywood, a Chicago suburb, will be here permanently after June 1.

1913

E.P. Ellis, who was hired by the Cape Girardeau Board of Education to take a conscientious count of the city's school-age children, submitted his report last night to the board; it showed nearly 700 more names than last year's report; Ellis found 2,947 children in the district between ages 6 and 20.

Normal School professor R.S. Douglass leaves in the afternoon for Morehouse, Mo., where he will deliver an address to the graduating class of the high school tonight; from there, he will go to Bismarck, Mo., where he will give the high school commencement speech.

-- Sharon K. Sanders