Out of the past: Aug. 13

1991

The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Advisory Board has voted to allocate about $35,000 to renovate the Capaha pool bathhouse and make improvements to two Arena Park ball fields.

Construction should be completed by Oct. 1 on a Missouri Division of Youth Services treatment center on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University; the 15,000-square-foot Southeast Missouri Community Treatment Center could be in operation by Nov. 1.

1966

H.E. Riehn was appointed acting sheriff yesterday by the County Court; he replaces John Crites, who resigned earlier in the day to assume his duties as the newly-appointed Jackson postmaster; Riehn was a deputy sheriff.

Construction will begin Monday on an extensive expansion program at Holiday Inn, according to Drury Brothers, owners of the property at Interstate 55 and Gordonville Road; it will be the third expansion of the inn since it opened in 1964; when completed, the inn will have 192 units and additional food service facilities.

1941

Two people -- Charles Hodgkiss, 13, and his grandfather, Mart Holmes, 58, both of near Benton, Missouri -- were injured and two others had a narrow escape at 9 p.m. yesterday, when the mammoth canopy at the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. business at the southwest corner of Main and Independence streets collapsed and fell to the concrete sidewalk; all four had ducked under the awning to escape a light rain; it is believed a bolt of lightning may have struck the southeast corner of the building and the canopy, which measured 60 by 30 feet.

Relief from the extreme heat that brought a top temperature of 102 on two consecutive days and 30 days in excess of 90 degrees comes to Cape Girardeau and the district on the heals of a heavy, five-hour rain centered here; the temperature dropped 39 degrees overnight from a 2 p.m. high of 102; this morning's minimum is 63.

1916

Henry Nussbaum has sold the remainder of his stock of goods at his Haarig store to the Rozier Mercantile Co. of Perryville, which will move it there tomorrow; the store room in Haarig will be rented; Nussbaum plans a brief vacation before beginning his duties as president of the Cape Girardeau Wholesale Grocery Co.

Matt Morrison and Will Moore drive out to Morrison's farm, a few miles below Gravel Hill, to deliver a fine-blooded goat and look after a few other things; however, when they reach Gravel Hill, they find a hard rain had fallen overnight, and the road to the farm is so muddy they can hardly get through.

-- Sharon K. Sanders