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1989

Using a crane, workers move the four outfield light standards at the Capaha Park baseball diamond back; the move will increase the playing area and is part of an overall renovation of the field; an underground watering system is also being installed this week.

Sen. John Danforth is guest speaker at a dedication ceremony for the expansion of Lee-Rowan Co.'s Jackson plant; the expansion is the factory's eighth since it located in Jackson in December 1964.

1964

The Rev. George Mueller of St. Louis, a 24-year veteran of the missionary service in Brazil, is guest speaker at Eisleben Lutheran Church's Mission Festival in Illmo; a picnic dinner precedes his afternoon lecture.

John L. Blue and Allen L. Oliver conduct the annual worship services at historic Applecreek Presbyterian Church near Pocahontas in the morning; the service continues a tradition of more than 50 years.

1939

Charles W. Boutin, president of Southeast Missouri Telephone Co., announces the letting of contracts for new telephone exchange buildings at Marble Hill and Advance, Missouri, and the laying of six blocks of heavy underground cables on the north side of Broadway from Pacific Street west to Perry Avenue.

Richard Hirsch of the Hirsch AAA Radio Service, 523 Broadway, has been appointed by Porterfield Aircraft Co. of Kansas City, Missouri, as its agent in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois; he will represent the firm here in selling planes manufactured by Porterfield.

1914

At the Presbyterian Church in the morning, the graduating high school students of Cape Girardeau hear the baccalaureate sermon preached by the pastor, the Rev. J.F. Lawson; most of the Protestant churches in the city dismiss their regular services, so that the congregations may attend the baccalaureate service.

Members of Trinity Lutheran Church observe the 60th anniversary of the founding of the church; preaching in German at the morning service is the Rev. John Schaller, pastor of the church from 1885-1889; the Rev. O.C.A. Boecler of Concordia Seminary at Springfield, Ill., preaches in English at the afternoon service.

-- Sharon K. Sanders