Forum Flashbacks: May 1-7
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, MAY 2, 1975
50 YEARS AGO: IF YOU DON’T ask me a question, I can’t give you an answer. That was one of the many comments comic Lily Tomlin made Thursday evening when she performed to a packed auditorium at the Northwest State University Administration Building. Among the variety of characters she played was Edith Ann, a precocious five-year-old that everyone would like to hate but can’t.
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, May 2, 2000
Purnell signs with Green Bay
Bearcat kicker David Purnell has signed a free agent contract with the Green Bay Packers.
After competing during the Packers’ mini-camp Thursday through Sunday, the Packers offered Purnell a contract and invited him to compete for the starting kicker slot. Head coach Mel Tjeerdsma said Purnell’s accuracy is what earned him the invitation.
“David had a tremendous record in college,” he said. “His accuracy was unbelievable. Last weekend, he did what he had to do. The real test will come in training camp.”
Purnell is the second Bearcat to sign a professional contract this year, as Alan Buckwalter also signed one with the Cincinnati Bengals.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, May 6, 1975
MARTINDALE GYM … The Old Transformed Into The New and Better
The department of women’s physical education at Northwest State University will use the vehicle of Sunday’s commencement ceremonies to showcase its newly remodeled and renovated headquarters, Martindale Gymnasium.
Miss Bonnie Magill, chairman of the department, has announced the like-new structure will have an “open house” for two hours immediately following the conclusion of the 3 p.m. commencement ceremonies. …
Faculty and students reoccupied the building in early March following the closing more than a year ago to allow construction companies to begin work on the facelifting.
Martindale Gymnasium, the second oldest classroom building on the MSU campus, was built in 1925 and served the University’s men’s and women’s physical education departments until Lamkin Gymnasium was built in 1961 for the men’s department.
The structure is named in honor of Mrs. Neil Martindale Kuchs, Maryville, a former chairman of the women’s department of physical education.
100 years ago
Maryville Tribune, May 2, 1925
THE TRIBUNE PASSES INTO OTHER HANDS
Announcement is made today of the purchase of The Tribune by W. C. Van Cleve, James Todd and Walter S. Todd, publishers of the Daily Democrat-Forum, effective Monday. The new publishers will make formal announcement Monday of the policies of the consolidated paper, which will give Maryville one newspaper, with a circulation of approximately 5,000. …
Under the consolidation the new owners take over the subscription lists of The Tribune and all subscriptions will be continued. The subscription price for the consolidated newspapers will be the same as the present rate — $3.50 per year by mail within the state and $4 per year outside the state.
The new paper will be a consolidation of four Maryville newspapers — The Nodaway Democrat, The Forum, The Republican and The Tribune.
The Maryville Democrat-Forum, formerly the Nodaway Democrat and the Nodaway County Democrat, was established fifty-five years ago, November 13, 1869.
During the fifty-five years of its existence, the Todd family has been connected with the paper for fifty years.
The first issue of the Nodaway County Democrat was November 13, 1869. The paper was founded by A. P. Morehouse, who was afterwards governor of Missouri, and the publishers were Mr. Morehouse and A. C. Buell.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50- and 100-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, MAY 7, 2000
25 YEARS AGO: ‘Theme Day’ fun time at Nodaway-Holt – Nodaway-Holt Elementary School had Theme Day Friday. Tyler Harper, left, and Jessica Bram show off the fossils and fact books they made in front of the classes’ dinosaur. They studied about dinosaurs for the last four to five weeks.
