Out of the past 9/24/13

1988

Mike Dumey, Cheryl Fortner, Roger Bierschwal, the Grace United Methodist Church bell choir and other noted area musicians appear in a concert of sacred music at Grace Church.

More than 2,000 senior citizens and their families and guests don't let a little rain spoil their afternoon; as this year's Senior Fun Fest sponsors and volunteers watch in amazement, hundreds of senior citizens pour off buses, vans and other vehicles, most of them carrying lawn chairs and wearing rain gear, with umbrellas in hand; all are ready for a great day at Trail of Tears State Park.

1963

The world's most powerful inland towboat and its 21 barges resume their downstream journey in the morning, after spending nearly 24 hours aground on a sandbar at Cape Girardeau; the America was unable to push its cargo through the shallow, narrow channel of the Mississippi River opposite the Federal Materials Mine; it went aground shortly before noon yesterday.

Several Cape Girardeau lawyers will attend the annual Missouri Bar Association meeting in Kansas City this week; the main speaker will be U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

1938

With hundreds of men from WPA rolls off their short-term jobs temporarily to swell the ranks of pickers, the cotton harvest is nearing a peak in Southeast Missouri; in Dunklin, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Mississippi, Stoddard, Scott and other counties, an army of pickers is on the job.

Boyd-Pipkin-Neal Packing Co., which recently purchased the old Southeast Missouri Packing Co., is making improvements to the plant on Highway 61.

1913

The big Methodist conference convenes at Jackson in the morning; among items to be decided at the conference is the question of changing the name of the church from the "Methodist Episcopal Church South" to the "Methodist Episcopal Church of America."

Contractor C.J. Reisenbichler reports two new contracts for residences this week; Emil Kies, living out on the Jackson-Gordonville Road, will build a nice, small home, and A.J. Vogel will have a small house built on South Pacific Street that he will rent out.

-- Sharon K. Sanders