Out of the past: Sept. 12

1993

The Rev. Dale A. Meyer of St. Louis is the guest preacher at the Fall Mission Festival of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson; the festival is held at the Jackson City Park Band Shell; Meyer is the speaker of The Lutheran Hour, a weekly radio ministry of the International Lutheran Laymen's League.

Many hundreds of children, teenagers and parents take advantage of a "sneak preview" to the 138th annual SEMO District Fair; it's the best attended sneak peak ever, largely because of the temperate, late-summer weather.

1968

Howard C. Tooke, president of the M.E. Leming Lumber Co., files as a candidate for the Cape Girardeau City Council; Tooke has lived here most of his life and has been associated with the Leming company about 32 years.

It's Cape Girardeau Day at the SEMO District Fair; and, true to her promise, Mother Nature provides sunny skies and warmer weather, as thousands of visitors take in all the activities in Arena Park; performing in the evening in front of the grandstand is a musical group, the Browning Family.

1943

Sunday morning services of Centenary Methodist Church move to the young people's assembly hall in the education building; during the past four Sundays, services have been held at the Little Theater at State College while renovation of the church property has been going on; regular services in the church auditorium are expected to resume Oct. 3.

Darrel Kautz, newly elected teacher at Trinity Lutheran Parochial School, is publicly installed at morning services at Trinity Lutheran Church; Kautz, who teaches the third and fourth grades here, is a native of Orlean, New York.

1918

President W.S. Dearmont of the Normal School has received a telegram from Acting Adjutant General Harris at Washington saying a U.S. Army officer will be detailed to the Normal School, that upon arrival he will proceed with the organization of a Student Army Training Corps unit, and that rifles, uniforms, overcoats and other equipment for the Student Army Training Corps will be shipped here at an early date; this is the official notice that the War Department has approved the Normal as a training college.

Maj. Patrick Frissell, in command of Eberts aviation field near Little Rock, Arkansas, arrived here yesterday on business; he will be in Cape Girardeau to receive the officers and men who will give flight demonstrations at the Cape Girardeau Fair on Friday and Saturday.

-- Sharon K. Sanders