Out of the past: Aug. 12

1991

The Dairy Queen restaurant at 913 Broadway has reopened; owner Frank Bean, who closed the restaurant June 26, said the plan to consolidate it with the Dairy Queen at 31 S. Kingshighway didn't meet with approval from the company's regional office in St. Louis.

The National Weather Service said the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau should continue falling slowly toward normal levels during the next 30 days, which would put the river at its lowest level in nine months.

1966

The initial steps in expansion of Kent Library at State College are underway, with more than two months' construction and renovating work completed; the most pronounced steps are the excavating work on the band practice field at the side and rear and the ripping out of the stack area, leaving a blank space between the two wings behind the library.

John C. Crites is officially sworn in as the Jackson postmaster shortly after 1 p.m.; he had resigned as Cape Girardeau County sheriff only shortly before, at 11:40 a.m.

1941

Judge I.R. Kelso has secured permission from the Missouri Public Service Commission to file briefs and appear before it in the case in which the Missouri Utilities Co. here is to be refinanced, divorced from its holding company and its new bonds and stocks handled by a group of underwriters headed by a New York banking concern; Kelso said he will suggest to the commission it provide a means whereby the stock could be disposed of locally so the company could be owned and controlled locally.

Weather prognosticators say the Cape Girardeau area could get some relief tomorrow, after 30 days of temperatures exceeding 90 degrees; the mercury climbs to 102 degrees here at 2 p.m., equaling yesterday's seasonal high mark.

1916

Charles Smith, representing the Kellog Switchboard Supply Co. of Chicago, will be in Cape Girardeau next week to install an additional switchboard in the local telephone offices, which will handle 180 lines; the cost of the new board is to be $2,500.

Catalogs for the annual fair to be held the last days of September and the first days of October are in every store in Cape Girardeau where copies may be had by citizens interested; the catalog was printed by The Republican.

-- Sharon K. Sanders