Out of the past 9/24/14

1989

Members of Evangelical United Church of Christ began cleaning and cooking apples Friday morning for the annual apple butter fundraiser; 55 bushels of apples, 550 pounds of sugar and three pounds of cinnamon were cooked in copper kettles over open fires for seven to eight hours behind the church yesterday, yielding around 600 pints and 375 quarts of apple butter.

St. Paul Lutheran Church holds its annual Service in the Park at the band shell in Jackson City Park.

1964

Area residents with aching teeth will have to suffer a little bit longer; most dentists in the area are attending the meeting today and Friday of the Southeast Missouri Dental Society at the Holiday Inn; more than 100 dentists, dental assistants and wives are registered for the meeting.

A lawsuit attacking the Missouri Legislature's efforts to block state reapportionment has been filed in Cole County Circuit Court against several state officials, including Sen. Albert M. Spradling Jr. of Cape Girardeau; Spradling is president pro-tem of the Missouri Senate.

1939

The Rev. Don E. Schooler, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, delivers the third of a series of sermons in the evening on his observations during his trip through Europe this summer; his subject is Poland.

In the presence of around 300 people, the cornerstone for the new Presbyterian Church at Jackson is placed in the afternoon; the Rev. S.H. Salmon, pastor, preaches from an improvised platform, comparing the structure of a church with that of a congregation, each being formed of many parts, but all forming the complete whole.

1914

It is said that a petition for a saloon in the Idan-ha Hotel building is again being circulated; such a petition has made the rounds several times before, but such a strong protest was raised against it each time that a sufficient number of signers couldn't be secured.

Fair officials hope the torpedo boat Somers, which is on its way upriver to St. Louis for the Veiled Prophet celebration, will stop here next week for the fair crowds to tour.

-- Sharon K. Sanders