Out of the past: July 2

1991

Yesterday was the hottest day of the year in Cape Girardeau; the 4 p.m. reading of 99 degrees at the municipal airport tied the record high for July 1, set in 1980; it was also the third consecutive day of temperatures in the mid- to upper-90s.

U.S. Attorney Stephen Higgins says Southeast Missouri's newly-approved satellite U.S. attorney's office will probably open in October; the office's opening will come after federal background checks on the two attorneys hired to run the office, a process that could take two or three months.

1966

Myrtle M. Naeter, widow of Fred W. Naeter, late publisher of The Missourian newspaper, dies early in the day in a Cape Girardeau hospital; she was 74 years old.

Midsummer construction in Cape Girardeau, paced by large State College projects in various stages of progress and supported by smaller jobs throughout the city, is moving along at a healthy pace; expansion of Kent Library is in its earliest days; the grounds have been fenced, and demolition work has taken place at the rear; the new Language Arts building is nearly complete; completion of the high-rise dorms is still a way off; the new Conservation Commission building in Arena Park is taking form.

1941

Two hundred thirty-four young men who came of age in the past nine months were added to the Cape Girardeau County list of selective service eligibles yesterday as they registered in Cape Girardeau and Jackson for a year's military training; most will likely be in Army camps within the next year.

The district National Youth Administration offices, in the H.-H. Building since their removal here from Bonne Terre, Missouri, a little over a year ago, are established in their new building on Spanish Street, where from 120 to 125 persons will be employed either as regular personnel or as youths working on projects

1916

Thirty-four converts, all grown people and mostly men, are the result of the Eli Forsythe tabernacle meetings since Saturday night; several of them were gathered in at each meeting by this "captain of the sawdust trail"; despite the fierce heat, some 4,000 people attend the three services today; Forsythe's afternoon sermon is on "Booze and Its Slimy Trail."

Dr. Berry W. Willis breaks his leg, when he runs his motorcycle into a motor car on the road a few miles north of Sikeston, Missouri

-- Sharon K. Sanders