Reba McEntire entertains a large SEMO District Fair crowd in the evening at Arena Park; the near sell-out crowd filling the grandstand is only part of the 11,085 attendance for the day.
Jackson city officials have announced they will significantly reduced the amount of land they had planned to annex; as a result of the decision, the city of Jackson has undertaken intensive negotiations with property owners in a corridor along Highway 61 East for "friendly" annexation.
Dr. Don W. Holter, president of St. Paul School of Theology Methodist, Kansas City, is the guest speaker at the 31st annual rally held at Old McKendree Chapel.
The opening of the new sanctuary of Wesley United Methodist Church, on Route J approximately two miles from Highway 61, is observed at the morning worship service; guest speaker is the Rev. George Heslar, superintendent of the Cape-Farmington Methodist Church District.
Twenty-five merchants, in Cape Girardeau and nearby towns, most with farmers as their leading patrons, sign up to make this weekend's 1939 Farmers Days much more attractive than a year ago, when hundreds of rural folk gathered at Fairground Park; a variety of goods will be shown and free refreshments served; the Hayrider Orchestra will perform.
Rabbi Gershon J. Feigon has arrived here from New York City to assume his work as spiritual leader of the B'Nai Israel congregation.
Honoring the oldest local member of their profession, doctors of Cape Girardeau gather at the home of Dr. A. Peironnet, 95, and present him resolutions.
Cape Girardeau's new system of white-way street lighting was inaugurated last night to the delight of hundreds of people who always crowd the streets on the last day of the week; the system consists of 98 ornamental steel poles, each containing three large globes 12 feet above the sidewalk; the poles extend along Main Street from Independence to Broadway, out Broadway to Pacific and on Good Hope from Sprigg to Frederick.
-- Sharon K. Sanders
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