Forum Flashbacks: Feb. 15-21
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, FEB. 18, 1999
25 YEARS AGO: Twin Day at Washington Middle School – Wednesday proved to be twice the fun for these students and teachers. They are, front row, from left, Alexis Townsend, Amanda Kisker, Kassie Spire and Dana DeMott. Back row, Kevin Pitts, Alex Heflin, Kevin Schluter and Eric Kellar.
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Feb. 19, 1999
Even though a stop light is not yet warranted at the intersection of Route V and U.S. 71 Business one will be installed if the need develops.
The Missouri Department of Transportation made this promise to the City of Maryville in an informal meeting Thursday morning. MoDOT plans on conducting a traffic count in April and again this fall after the new middle school opens to track changes in traffic patterns. The original traffic study was conducted this fall, when MoDOT counted vehicles at the intersection, then figured in projected increases.
“Based on traffic volumes today and the growth we anticipate, we are several years away from meeting the warrants needed for a signal,” MoDOT traffic engineer Hank Krull said.
The city asked MoDOT to complete the study in anticipation of the new school, as well as business and housing developments on South Main Street.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Feb. 15, 1974
Charles W. Shaw, mayor of Rock Port, has resigned, thanking everyone for their help but admitting that he’s not qualified for the job.
Shaw, a retired vocational agriculture teacher, was elected to a two-year term last April as a write-in candidate. The councilman who was running unopposed for the post died a few days before the election, and despite Shaw’s protests, the people wrote him in.
“There are so many government regulations with which I am unfamiliar and though I have been reading up on them I feel too much of a newcomer to the political scene. Someone whose thinking has been geared along lines of government would do a much better job,” Shaw said.
The resignation is not a result of political infighting in city government, he adds, as throughout his term there has been only one split vote by the four-member council, on whether to turn on city Christmas lights.
100 years ago
Maryville Tribune, Feb. 18, 1924
GET LETTERS OF INDIAN STUDENTS
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Letters and snap shots from the members of the Junior Red Cross of the Santa Clara day school for Indians, located in Espanola, N. M., to the Junior Red Cross members of Burlington Junction school arrived in the county chapter office here today. These letters and pictures are in reply to a portfolio sent to the Espanola school by the Burlington Junction juniors on which they told of Missouri and sent pictures and maps of Nodaway County.
This work is part of the foreign correspondence work of the Junior Red Cross organization. …
The Indians who attend the day school at the Espanola are one of the poorest tribes in the United States. Nine letters were received here and one of these told of the school furnishing books, pencils and clothing for the scholars. This letter said: “We like to go to school because the school gives us clothes and books and pencils, and a nurse and doctors come to see us every week.”
Nearly all the letters told of the doctor coming to the school and putting medicine in their eyes to cure them of trachoma. One of the letters said: “The medicine they put in our eyes smarts. Do you have doctors who come to your school and put smarty medicine in your eyes? The letter then went on to say that all the Indians in that section of the country were subject to the disease, trachoma, and that if they did not have their eyes treated they were apt to go blind.
There were twenty-four snap shots with the letters. Some of these were of the harvest dance, held in that community every year. One of the letters told of the New Year’s festivities and said they always swept all the streets in the village every New Year in order that they might start the New Year right.
A letter written by the forest officer of the Santa Clara district, who is also principal of the school, to the division officer of the Red Cross in St. Louis was forwarded with the letters. This letter told of the work of the Indians and explained many interesting customs and legends.
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.
