Out of the past: July 26

1991

Responding to a request of the Cape Girardeau City Council, the Jackson Board of Aldermen and a special study committee, the Cape Girardeau County Commission voted yesterday to place a proposal on the Nov. 5 ballot that would provide funding for a countywide 911 emergency telephone system.

Cape Girardeau is again without regularly scheduled Greyhound bus service to St. Louis and Memphis. Bus service in and out of the city was suspended after the St. Louis-to-Memphis bus left Cape Girardeau shortly after 4 p.m. yesterday, because it could find no alternate site for a bus station. Zoning conflicts closed the station at the last location, Spanky's convenience store, 353 S. Kingshighway.

1966

Thirty-one members of the Cape Girardeau Police Department and 21 members of the auxiliary police have presented police chief Irvin Beard letters of support and commendation. The letters are a result of a critical editorial that appeared last week in The Missourian newspaper concerning Beard.

The city of Cape Girardeau has received the first payments for providing fire protection to business establishments outside the city limits. Sending checks to the city for $200 each were the Arkansas-Best Freight Co., Superior Electric Co. and the Missouri-Illinois Tractor Co.

1941

Cape Girardeau has given its ton of aluminum for national defense. Weighed out late Friday afternoon, the metal collected Thursday and Friday totaled exactly 2,500 pounds.

An air-conditioning system is being installed on the third floor of Southeast Missouri Hospital, with the set of fans and outlets to be finished within a few days. Two 4-foot fans have been placed in the penthouse on top of the third floor, and these have been started in operation but won't give maximum service until the system is completed. Four grills are being placed in the top ceiling of the hospital, through which warm air will be pumped out by the fans.

1916

Al Brinkopf, Broadway undertaker and furniture dealer, has closed a deal with Bruening & Kerstner of Jackson for the cloth-covered caskets among their stock and had them removed to his store. When Bruening & Kerstner retired from the furniture business several months ago, they disposed of everything in the store except the undertaking stock. They recently made Brinkopf a good offer, and he took over the cloth-covered goods.

J.A. Rigdon, owner of the Cape City Steam Laundry, has purchased from C.F. Foeste an elegant site for a handsome home south of Fairground Park on the Jackson gravel road.

-- Sharon K. Sanders