Out of the past: Sept. 2

1991

Labor Day. The 26th annual Muscular Dystrophy Telethon raises $233,495 in the 38-county local region and a record $45,071,857 nationwide; the local figure tops last year's district total by more than $15,000.

Chaffee, Missouri, native Jodi Capshaw Asel, 41, has been appointed to an associate circuit judge's position in Boone County by Gov. John Ashcroft; Asel is the daughter of Bob Capshaw and Juanita Capshaw of Chaffee.

1966

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- A 20-year-old Chaffee man has been permanently injured in the war in Vietnam while serving with the Marine Corps; Cpl. John A. Hedger, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.S. Hedger, suffered missile wounds of the right and left thighs when his aircraft came under heavy hostile automatic weapon fire.

The Southeast Missourian this week completed an upgrading of its engraving department that began earlier this year; the latest addition was a $5,000 quartz-light darkroom camera replacing a 1946 model on which thousands of pictures for the newspaper and commercial customers had been made; the new camera will speed up engraving by 25 percent and will result in higher-quality pictures in the newspaper.

1941

Approximately 3,200 boys and girls fill public-school classrooms as the 1941-1942 school term begins in the morning; it's a short day for the youngsters, ending at noon; half days may be the rule for a while, depending on the heat wave that tends to make classrooms bake in the afternoon.

Monkey business is everybody's business at Jackson, as the community unites in an effort to locate an escaped monkey; the little animal, just a mite larger than an ordinary cat, escaped from a concession at the Homecomers Reunion on Saturday and is still at large; the wee animal gets around; it was seen along Greens Ferry Road on the east side Sunday, and later in the Otto Friedrich barn, northeast of the county seat.

1916

A new drug store is opened in the Maurer Building on Sprigg Street, near Haarig, in the morning by Dr. J.C. Vorbeck and W.C. Dohogne; the firm will be known as the Vorbeck & Dohogne Drug Store; John Schenck, registered druggist, who formerly was connected with the St. Charles Pharmacy, is in charge for the store.

The ancient and honorable Cape Girardeau Anti-Horse Thief Association meets at Jackson in the afternoon, resolving to hunt down such thieves with greater vengeance than ever; F.A. Kage is elected president, a position he has held for something less than a century.

-- Sharon K. Sanders