RecordsSeptember 15, 2013
Out of the past 9/15/13
Some members of the Southeast Missouri State University faculty are asking that the university and the University Foundation not pay any costs associated with yesterday's visit here of President Ronald Reagan, maintaining it amounted to a political "campaign rally."...
1988
Some members of the Southeast Missouri State University faculty are asking that the university and the University Foundation not pay any costs associated with yesterday's visit here of President Ronald Reagan, maintaining it amounted to a political "campaign rally."
Officials with the SEMO District Fair are pleased with attendance so far this year; the three-day attendance is more than 37,000 people; Earl Thomas Conley is scheduled to perform this evening in front of the grandstand.
1963
Workers Friday erected a scaffold around the steeple of the First Presbyterian Church to reach the roof that was damaged Sept. 3 when lightning struck the steeple; repairing the damage were Joe McLain, Ralph Deimund and Bill Walter.
Two massive bronze bells will call the faithful of Eisleben Lutheran Church to services, replacing the church's original bells that melted when fire swept the steeple on April 30; inscribed on the bells are "Praise Him Upon the Loud Cymbals" and "What You Hear Whispered You Must Shout from the Housetops."
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1938
Plans for extensive modernization of the three buildings at the southwest corner of Broadway and Main Street are announced by the owner, V.J. Clemens; the exterior will be stuccoed; the third floor will be removed from the building at the corner; when completed, the three buildings will appear as one.
Girardeans shiver in the morning, as straw hats make their official exit for the season; a cool wave, accompanied by a light mist, strikes the city and district early in the day, sending the mercury down to 60; many locals don heavier clothing, and fedoras come out of hiding to supplant straw hats.
1913
Manning Kimmel, who expected to go to Montana recently to attend a big sale of horses, got as far as St. Louis and there learned that the sale had been postponed; he was going there to buy a car load of big mares and colts for George Bell, who wanted them for his farm in Illinois.
The Rev. G. Garland Riggan of the First Baptist Church of Jackson surprised his congregation yesterday when he read his resignation, effective Oct. 3; Riggan will take charge of the First Baptist Church at Rolla, Mo., shortly thereafter.
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