Forum Flashbacks: Sept. 28-Oct. 4
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25 YEARS AGO: Johnny Appleseed Day – Sharon Neustadter, left, portrayed Johnny Appleseed for Sue Seipel’s first grade class at St. Gregory’s recently. Above, students (clockwise from top) Darbi Fuhrman, Mariah Stiens, Ethan Grother, Colton Mattson, Libbey Howell, Cody Spire and Erin Jones cut up fruit to make blender applesauce. Apples were part of the curriculum throughout the day. In Nancy Moser’s second grade class, the students estimated and counted the number of seeds in an apple, made applesauce and traced the route Johnny Appleseed took as he planted apple trees.
25 years ago
Declaring an emergency situation, the Maryville City Council voted to lower the speed limit on Second Street in front of Eugene Field Elementary.
The council approved two readings Monday night of an ordinance which will lower the speed limit from 25 mph to 20 mph on Second Street from North Vine to North Davis.
Dave Weichinger, assistant principal at Eugene Field, said the school appreciated the city’s efforts to make the environment safer. A child was struck by a vehicle in front of the school on Sept. 18.
Weichinger added that they are continuing to look at areas which might present safety concerns.
50 years ago
Supporters of the proposed Nodaway County Public Health Center, which was defeated by a slim margin in a Sept. 18 special election, are waiting to hear from Dr. Arnold Reeve, Cameron District One Health Office, whether the State Department of Health will approve a one-year grant to establish the Center here.
Natalie Tackett, spokesman for a group of supporters, said she met with the County Court last Wednesday and talked with them about requesting the grant. The grant request must come from the County Court, and if it is approved, the County Court must sign it before it can go into effect.
On Friday, Mrs. Tackett and Dr. Reeve met again with the County Court and made a budget proposal. The Court agreed to provide a room in the courthouse for the Center, to pay utilities, telephone and postage, and perhaps provide office furniture, though Mrs. Tackett said she thought the furniture could be donated. These offers by the County Court would be a “soft match” to the state grant.
On Saturday, Dr. Reeve took the grant request to Jefferson City. If the grant is approved, it will go into effect Dec. 1, and will run until Dec. 1, 1974. The proposal is for one nurse (to be hired at $7,540 a year) and one secretary. The nurse’s salary was raised from $6,500 after the 11th District Nurses Association told Mrs. Tackett that it would be almost impossible to hire a nurse for that figure. …
If the grant is approved and signed by the County Court, the proposal will be put to the voters again on Aug. 13, 1974.
100 years ago
STREETS THRONGED BY 2,500 PERSONS
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HERE TO JOIN IN FROLICS OF THE FALL FIESTA
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With clear skies and weather “made to order,” 2500 persons thronged the streets of Maryville today, forgetting cares and troubles and joining in the frolics of the opening day of Maryville’s Fall Fiesta and Exposition.
The three-day event promises to be one of the best attended ever held in Nodaway County. Persons from Nodaway and surrounding counties jostled down the street, all intent on enjoying the big celebration to the fullest extent.
The program officially opened this morning with a band concert in the courthouse yard. A variety of selections made up the program which was enjoyed by a great number of persons.
The Blackstone quartet, four of the best negro singers ever heard in Maryville, entertained a vast crowd with several selections, the featured of which was, “You-you-you Tell’em I Stutter.”
Owing to late entries in the automobile contest, both the automobile parades that had been planned, were combined, starting from the corner of First and Main streets a little after 2 o’clock. The Maryville band, in a float drawn by a Fordson tractor, led the string of cars. …
All automobile dealers in Maryville exhibited in parade their new cars. There were forty-nine cars in the parade, there being thirty-nine new automobiles being shown. Three tractors were exhibited.
NOTES OF THE DAY
Maryville band comprised just a baker’s dozen, excluding the leader, “Bill” Larson, when it started the afternoon off with a few selections on North Main. This goes to show that the volume of music cannot be judged by the number of musicians. …
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J. Pluvius was not missed at all today. …
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A tourist from Maine, who was on his way home from Colorado, lost two spare wheels equipped with tires near the Burlington Station. He came back to town and found them at the D. F. office.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50-year and 100-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com. The original 50-year article ran in the Oct. 3, 1973, issue of The Maryville Daily Forum. The original 100-year article ran in the Oct. 3, 1923, issue of The Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, which later would become The Maryville Forum.
