Out of the past: Aug. 23

1991

A central processing center for mail in Southeast Missouri will be situated in the Cape West Industrial Park. The postal service has agreed to lease a 37,604-square-foot building from Drury Development Corp., which will house the processing center. The facility will be operational prior to Dec. 1.

State Reps. Joe Driskill and Gene Copeland are critical of a plan prepared by the Missouri House Redistricting Committee, and Rep. Ollie Amick, D-Scott City, is upset about a last-minute change Tuesday night that split his home city into two districts.

1966

Notices soon will be sent by the city to business property owners on Main, Spanish and Broadway that their sidewalks need to be repaired; in the meantime, the city is taking the lead by replacing sidewalks and curbing in front of the Common Pleas Courthouse property on Spanish.

Leta Jane Bock, 17, of Charleston, Missouri, representing Mississippi County, was crowned Missouri State Fair Queen by State Auditor Haskell Holman in a ceremony Sunday night at Sedalia, Missouri. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Bock of Charleston.

1941

The field picked bare by the rise of industrial development through the defense program, a standing order is on file in practically every Cape Girardeau restaurant for women who want jobs as waitresses. Recent want ads in The Missourian carried pleas to young women to offer their services for eight openings, five of them in one restaurant.

The Broadway School, built 35 years ago, has reopened as the district office for the Works Progress Administration. For a while, 10 grades were taught in the school, but then some students were transferred elsewhere, and it became an elementary school. It was abandoned for school purposes in 1937.

1916

The old hitching posts along Main Street in Fornfelt are being removed pursuant to an order or ordinance of the council that no teams shall be hitched to the posts, telephone poles, etc. along this street.

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Wright, Mrs. A. Dittlinger and Arthur Thilenius leave in the afternoon for Mingo to spend two weeks on a camping and fishing trip. They will be joined next Sunday by A.C. Dittlinger and family, A.R. Zoelsmann and several others.

-- Sharon K. Sanders