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Missouri Supreme Court Judge Edward D. Robertson Jr. is the guest speaker at the annual Old McKendree Chapel meeting in the afternoon near Jackson; music for the outdoor service is provided by the choir from Grace United Methodist Church of Cape Girardeau...
1988
Missouri Supreme Court Judge Edward D. Robertson Jr. is the guest speaker at the annual Old McKendree Chapel meeting in the afternoon near Jackson; music for the outdoor service is provided by the choir from Grace United Methodist Church of Cape Girardeau.
The newly installed pipe organ at St. Mark Lutheran Church is dedicated; the organ was built and installed by Clifford Bequelin, a retired organ builder who resides in Cape Girardeau.
1963
The bypassing of Cape Girardeau by two Ozark Airline flights because the runway is too short for the larger planes could be a sign of more serious problems to the airline service here; Ozark, which serves Cape Girardeau with DC-3 airplanes, dropped two of its four flights here because they are now operated with larger Convair aircraft; Ozark says it will operate nothing larger than a DC-3 on Cape Girardeau's 4,000-foot runway.
The SEMO District Fair kicks off at Arena Park; the grandstand show in the evening is the Cape Girardeau Review, featuring Duane Kirby as master of ceremonies and spotlighting talent well-known in the area.
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1938
Preliminary steps toward the establishment of a mission of Trinity Lutheran Church in the Smelterville suburb have been taken, and the Rev. G.E. German, a ministerial candidate and graduate of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, is here making the canvas of families to determine the Lutheran population in that section of town.
Dr. Fred M. Bailey of St. Louis, district superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is speaker at the morning services at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church; afterward, a basket dinner is held at Scivally Park.
1913
Police Judge H.E. Alexander's morning docket is filled with automobile cases; most are charges against drivers who failed to honk their horns as they turned corners.
The Mississippi River Commission or some government agency in charge of river traffic should compel river craft to be equipped with wireless telegraph service; the steamer Rees Lee left St. Louis the day before yesterday in the evening; it was expected here yesterday morning, but still hadn't arrived by this afternoon.
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