Out of the past 6/26/13

1988

Secretary of State Roy D. Blunt is guest speaker at the annual God and Country Celebration at the band shell in Jackson Park; special music is provided by the Jackson Municipal Band and a community choir.

Steve Clinton of Oak Ridge, Tenn., is the new minister of recreation and youth at First Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau.

1963

John Wittenborn, one of State College's all-time great football stars now playing professionally, has been traded to the St. Louis Cardinals by the Philadelphia Eagles.

Cape Girardeau County farmers are harvesting one of the best wheat crops ever; estimates place the harvest at more than 60 percent finished over most of the county; yields are running well over normal, with the averages varying from 50 to 62 bushels per acre in the south to 40 plus in the north.

1938

The Rev. Edgar Rubel, chaplain in a CCC camp at Grand Junction, Colo., speaks at the English service at Trinity Lutheran Church in the morning; he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Rubel of Cape Girardeau and is in town visiting his parents.

The Rev. W.J. Gammon, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Jackson, has accepted the pastorate of a church at Perry, which is located between Mexico and Hannibal, Mo.; it is a town of about 1,500 people.

1913

An Iron Mountain engine runs into the bull moose car at the Delta crossing in the morning; four persons, three of them women with children coming to the city for visits, are injured; most seriously hurt is Dallas E. Davis of Des Arc, Mo., who receives a penetrating cut on his right arm.

Another big audience attended the Lincoln McConnell evangelization meeting last night, and 22 conversions followed in the wake of his strong sermon; the first man to hit the sawdust trail to acknowledge his responsibility to God and his fellow man was Postmaster E.W. Flentge.

-- Sharon K. Sanders