Out of the past 8/7/13

1988

The Rev. Fred Roberts of Durban, South Africa, is guest speaker in the morning at New Life World Outreach Center; Roberts has pastored churches and conducted evangelistic crusades and rallies for more than 23 years.

The Rev. Larry W. Myers, a native of the congregation and school of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson, has assumed a position in the Department of Exegetical Theology (New Testament) at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis; he is the son of Willard and Wilma Myers.

1963

Representatives from Oak Ridge and Pocahontas, as well as several other rural towns in the area, attended a meeting at Perryville, Mo., yesterday that may open the way to water supply improvements in their communities; two water specialists explained how rural towns may install systems under federal government loans.

The Metro building, 415 Broadway, owned by the Rueseler family, is being remodeled and enlarged by Gerhardt Construction Co.; a new front is being installed, and additional space is being provided in the rear and on the west side, with a wall and staircase being taken out.

1938

The Rev. J. Wilson Crichlow, presiding elder of the Cape Girardeau district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, preaches at morning services at Centenary Methodist Church in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. Don E. Schooler; Schooler and his wife are attending the seventh pastors' institute and educational conference at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.

The Rev. Ernest Fritts, pastor of the Christian Church at Selma, Ala., speaks at the morning worship service at First Christian Church; Fritts is here visiting his son, Edward Fritts, who is local agent for the Greyhound Bus Lines.

1913

Ben Green, who recently moved here from Fruitland and is building a nice home and big stock barn on the Jackson Road near the fairgrounds, sold two jacks to a couple of farmers in Mississippi County this week, making six he has sent to that county in recent months; Green has his barn completed and his house is under roof.

Will Welker, formerly a tinner at Perryville, Mo., has opened a tin and repair shop in Cape Girardeau; he will do all kinds of repairs on short notice.

-- Sharon K. Sanders