Out of the past 8/28/13

1988

Roger E. Craft of Sikeston, Mo., is the new organist at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Cape Girardeau; he is a student at Southeast Missouri State University, studying organ under Dr. Gary Miller and piano with Dr. James Sifferman.

The Rev. Jerry Webb assumes duties as the new pastor of West Side Church of God; the Webb family is moving to Cape Girardeau from Leesburg, Fla.

1963

Railroads in the Cape Girardeau area are continuing to accept freight orders as usual despite the threat of a national rail strike at midnight tonight; the trucking and barge industries here are bracing for a new crush of freight business, and the Cape Girardeau post office announces a curtailment of long-distance service on second- and third-class mail and parcel post should the strike go into effect.

Farmers, grain elevator operators and others concerned with the fast maturing Cape Girardeau County corn crop are readying themselves this week for harvesting and handling the 1963 crop; in the southern part of the county, very scattered harvesting has begun.

1938

Dr. H.H. McGinty, pastor of First Baptist Church, is back in the pulpit after a two-week vacation in the South; he was accompanied by his wife and their children, Charles, Martha and Mary Lillian; they visited Warm Springs, Ga., Atlanta and Lafayette Ala.

After a two-week stay in a National Guard camp at Camp Clark at Nevada, Mo., officers and enlisted men of the Third Battalion, Headquarters Company and Service Company, members of the 35th Division staff and the U.S. Army return home shortly after noon.

1913

It is rumored that the town of Thebes, Ill., will hold a local option election; the issue seems to stem from the violent, drunken demonstration against a recent revival meeting there.

The three-day Homecomers celebration kicks off at Jackson at 9 a.m., with steam whistles and bells giving the opening salute; the organizers have planned a fine program that will include an airplane demonstration; the ship arrived yesterday, a replacement for the machine that was smashed in a railroad wreck Saturday night.

-- Sharon K. Sanders