Out of the past 8/6/14

1989

Twenty-six young people and five adults from Trinity Lutheran Church left Friday to attend the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod's National Lutheran Youth gathering in Denver; among those attending is Randy Whitticre, who was selected as a member of the National LC-MS Youth Honors Symphony Band and String Orchestra.

The Rt. Rev. William A. Jones, Episcopal bishop of Missouri, makes his annual visit to Christ Episcopal Church.

1964

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- An estimated 2,000 Mississippi County residents gathered yesterday afternoon in downtown Charleston to welcome home the hero of the day, Warren E. Hearnes, the Democratic nominee for governor; many say Secretary of State Hearnes pulled off the biggest political upset in the state in many years by defeating Lt. Gov. Hilary Bush in Tuesday's primary.

The troubles besetting the Jackson School District's plans to open the new junior high by Aug. 31 intensified yesterday and again this morning, as union pickets appeared at the school site and at the east end of the sewer line project, which will serve the new school.

1939

The Rev. Hugh O. Isbell, superintendent of the Farmington, Missouri, district of the Methodist Church, delivers the sermon at the morning worship service at Centenary Methodist Church in the absence of the pastor; the Rev. Don Schooler is traveling with his wife in Europe with the Sherwood Eddy seminar.

An all-day outing is held in Schonhoff's woods by members of the St. Joseph's Society of St. Mary's Catholic Church and their families; in addition to a basket dinner, entertainment is provided for the children, with softball for the adults.

1914

William Weissenborn of near Allenville is digging a big well near the public road on his farm; while at work last week, a large section of the wall caved in and very nearly buried Charlie Weissenborn, who was at work in the well.

Robert West files information before city attorney Robert H. Whitlaw against Charles Himmelberger and Otto Kochtitzky, charging them with racing on Bellevue Street on Tuesday at a rate far above the speed limit; since the opening of the improved Bellevue, many automobile parties have been using the street for a racetrack, according to West.

-- Sharon K. Sanders