Forum Flashbacks: July 18-24
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, JULY 20, 1999
25 YEARS AGO: Super Farmers – Jeanette Powell breaks eggs on teammate John Allen’s head until she finds the hard boiled one, during the Super Farmer Contest held during the Nodaway County Fair.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, July 19, 1974
The Maryville R-II School Board viewed plans and heard explanations concerning the proposed football field and stadium for the high school at a special meeting of the Board last night held at the Washington Middle School.
Hugh Hamlin, of Hamlin, Walker and Breneman, the Kansas City firm retained for the work, (presented) a proposal which would cost about $310,000 and using all the architect’s optimum recommendations. Included in the total cost figure is a pad for possible cost hikes in building and material costs.
Under the recommendations of the architect, the $310,000 figure would buy the district a concrete stadium with metal seating, a combination press box-public toilet-concession stand and a locker room for home and visiting football teams.
Some measures of economy could be taken — substituting a metal frame stadium for a concrete one, using wooden seats instead of metal, building a metal locker room building instead of one of masonry construction.
The recommendations for the concrete stadium and other proposals which would require a higher initial outlay of capital for construction, according to Hamlin, were made with the idea of long term maintenance and replacement expense in mind. …
The Board, however, considered a total cost of $325,000 would be a better figure to shoot for after discussing the possibility of expanding the space in the proposed locker room building so that it could be used efficiently by the school system for other sports programs (specifically wrestling) and also for adult courses in physical education during the evenings.
100 years ago
Maryville Tribune, July 19, 1924
BURGLARS ENTER BUSINESS HOUSES
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Burglars were very busy in Maryville Thursday night, having broken into the Superior Cleaning Co., and taken about $12 from the cash register, and having tried to break into the safe in the basement of the Empire Theater building. At the Empire Theater, they succeeded only in damaging the safe so that it was impossible for the owners to open it. The work at both places was evidently done by amateurs.
The safe at the Empire Theater is used only for keeping tickets and a small amount of change from the popcorn machine, and at the time of the attempted burglary it contained only about $5 in small change in addition to the tickets and books of the theater. The outside doors of the safe are not locked, but are only closed and the handles turned on the doors.
The person or persons entered the room where the safe is through a window in a toilet in the basement and experienced little difficulty in getting to the safe, as the outside doors of the building are not locked and the door to the toilet is not locked. Some supplies are kept in the room with the safe, so the door to that room is locked with a padlock.
The burglar evidently first turned the combination on the safe without trying the handles, and thus locked the safe. In his further attempts to open the safe he pried off the combination dial, evidently with a jimmy bar, and twisted off one of the handles to the doors.
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.
