RecordsJuly 24, 2013
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A Baptist missiongroup from Georgia will be here this week to assist members of Southside Baptist Church in rebuilding their sanctuary; Southside will build a new edifice on the same site as the church, which burned Dec. 16, 1987, at 805 Hackberry St...
1988
A Baptist missiongroup from Georgia will be here this week to assist members of Southside Baptist Church in rebuilding their sanctuary; Southside will build a new edifice on the same site as the church, which burned Dec. 16, 1987, at 805 Hackberry St.
Heartsong, a women's quartet from Lynwood Baptist Church, presents its third annual concert in the evening at the church; members of the group are Linda Mahy, Linda Meadows, Charlene Peyton and Donna Propst.
1963
Old wooden sash windows on the south side of May Green School are being replaced by aluminum frame windows, and marble sills are being installed on the inside; the replacement of the 32 windows is being done under a contract by C.A. Hood at a cost of $4,530.
An advance contingent of 15 enlisted men and two officers of the First Battalion of the 140th Infantry of the National Guard leaves Cape Girardeau in the morning to go to the summer camp at Camp Ripley, Minn.; the advance unit, under the command of 1st Lt. Jerry T. Howard, will be responsible for drawing supplies and making other preparations before the arrival of the main convoy.
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1938
The evening service at First Baptist Church is observed as "Old Folks Night," and the pastor, the Rev. H.H. McGinty, delivers a sermon in keeping with the occasion.
The king fish, or at least one of the chieftains of the finny tribe at Brockmire pond, eight miles north of Cape Girardeau, is successfully hooked and landed in the morning; F. Crit Jones of Cape Girardeau lands the 35-pound mud cat, which has broken up a lot of tackle for anglers in recent years.
1913
Cape Girardeau is being cleaned up; starting with the campaign inaugurated by the Men's Club against saloons that winked at the law and sold liquor to minors and sots, progress has been made to make the town morally clean; the latest innovation is an order by the mayor instructing the police to "drive every woman and girl morally unclean from the city or cause their prosecution"; already three houses that harbored such women have been cleaned out.
Another step was taken yesterday to improve the looks of Haarig, when the old shack next door to the Stehr store was removed.
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