Out of the past 4/5/11

25 years ago: April 5, 1986

The Jon-Boy restaurant in Scott City has been purchased by Frank and Mary Ellen Bean of Cape Girardeau and is being converted into a Dairy Queen.

Scott G. Goodson has been promoted from controller to vice president of finance at Lenco Inc. of Jackson.

50 years ago: April 5, 1961

Cape Girardeau voters elected another woman to the board of education yesterday; Mary Kasten, wife of a Cape Girardeau surgeon, will join Mrs. H.B. Newman on the board; also elected to his fourth three-year term was Oliver A. Hope.

Jackson School District at the annual school election yesterday, with more than 1,1000 casting ballots, turned down the proposition to annex the Natural Gas Pipeline substation at Gravel Hill.

75 years ago: April 5, 1936

Cape Girardeau and vicinity is drenched in the afternoon by the heaviest rainfall of the year; streets are converted into small rivers and the overflow spreads over sidewalks and floods basements and floors of a few downtown buildings; the total rainfall yesterday and today is 2.91 inches.

The start of Holy Week is celebrated at churches in Cape Girardeau with the traditional blessing of palms and processions.

100 years ago: April 5, 1911

The saloons carried the day at yesterday's Cape Girardeau municipal election; their proprietors and bartenders, runners and porters worked with a vengeance to elect men whom they depend upon to reduce the saloon license tax; F.A. Kage and the candidates for council on his ticket can thank the saloons for their win.

The Houck line is expanding its service, adding another trip to and from Kelso, Mo., and another run between Cape Girardeau and Jackson.

-- Sharon K. Sanders