Out of the past 6/12/13

1988

The Rev. and Mrs. David Downing-Stewart are welcomed at a reception following the morning worship service at Centenary United Methodist Church; Downing-Stewart has been assigned associate minister at Centenary.

Major and Mrs. Paul E. Bollwahn of St. Louis are guest speakers and singers in the morning at the Salvation Army, 701 Good Hope St.; Bollwahn is general secretary for the Midland Division of the Salvation Army.

1963

Ground is opened for the first time in the morning on the city's sewage treatment project; ditching begins on the north riverfront interceptor, which will extend from Sloan's Creek northward about 2,500 feet.

The city of Cape Girardeau has received its first full year of benefits from the state gasoline tax sharing plan; the 12 monthly payments received so far total $77,072.98, short of the state's estimate that the city would come in for $84,984 a year.

1938

Attorney J. Grant Frye speaks at the morning worship service at First Christian Church in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. Ira D. Crewdson, who is giving instruction in Bible school at Port Gibson, Miss.

Around 1,500 people attend the annual mission service at Trinity Lutheran Church, the afternoon services being held on the school grounds; guest speaker is Professor Theodore Hoyer, a member of the faculty of Concordia Seminary at St. Louis.

1913

BENTON, Mo. -- Marshall Arnold, for many years a leading attorney of Southeast Missouri and for two years a member of Congress, died at his home in Benton last night from tuberculosis; Arnold, 67, was a leading figure in district legal and political circles for many years; he is survived by his wife and four children; his son, James Arnold, is circuit clerk of Scott County.

Lee L. Albert, the wide-awake young flour and grain man on Independence Street, is having a new warehouse built on South Frederick Street; the concrete structure is being constructed near the Cape Girardeau northern shops.

-- Sharon K. Sanders