Out of the past 8/21/13

1988

Tracy A. Carroll has begun his duties as the new associate minister at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); he is a native of St. Joseph, Mo., and grew up in Des Moines, Iowa.

ORAN, Mo. -- For the first time in 40 years, steam railroad passenger service returns briefly to Oran, when the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.'s Railfan Weekend Extra No. 5 passenger train pulls into the former Missouri Pacific depot; organizers of the event termed it "very successful," with about 115 attending.

1963

BENTON, Mo. -- Lloyd G. Briggs, circuit clerk of Scott County, announces he will resign his position effective Sept. 1 to return to studies at the Cumberland School of Law at Howard University in Birmingham, Ala.; Briggs, a Chaffee, Mo., resident, will move to Birmingham with his wife and family.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Ralph Mattocks has sold his Chaffee Signal, a weekly newspaper, to Bob Kielhofner, 27, of Chaffee, but will remain with the paper six months; Mattocks' father, C.E. Mattocks, published the newspaper from 1910 to 1924, when the son became the owner.

1938

The final Sunday school classes are conducted in the cottage building at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church; workers will begin razing the old building this week.

The Rev. B.L. Wilson has resigned as pastor of the Church of the Nazarene, effective Sept. 11; he has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Central Church of the Nazarene in St. Louis; the local congregation has extended a call to the Rev. C.E. Fleshman of Valley Park, Mo.

1913

Harry R. Stowers, "a clean young man" hailing from St. Louis, is in Cape Girardeau looking over the field with a view to starting a fine recreation place for the young people of the city; he desires to establish a natatorium and gymnasium at some central point and to run the facility according to YMCA rules.

The 33rd annual session of the Third District Baptist Association of Negroes begins in the afternoon at Second Baptist Church on South Frederick Street; messengers from various parts of the district are in attendance, including the Revs. W.S. Hunter of Mattoon, Ill., G.C. Chinn, J.W. Jackson and Moody; professors Brooks and J.S. Cobb also are present.

-- Sharon K. Sanders