Forum Flashbacks: July 24-30
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, JULY 28, 2000
25 YEARS AGO: Celebrating the end of summer classes at the Head Start program (Horace Mann Laboratory School), the students were paid a visit by Lt. Phil Rickabaugh, of the fire division of Maryville Public Safety. Above he demonstrates the hose on the firetruck, while Shannon Johnson (left), Dyllan Nelson and Jessica Pfost observe.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, July 28, 1975
The fish just weren’t cooperating for many of the 35 children — between the ages of 5 and 15 who participated Saturday in the annual Maryville Optimist Club Fishing Contest. The event, held at the Merrigan Sale Barn pond, saw many contestants go home without even a nibble.
In the 5-to 8-year old group, Jon Rios caught the largest fish, Jean Jones caught the most fish and Bart McIntosh and Todd Brown shared honors of the heaviest stringer of fish.
In the 9-to 11-year old group, Steve Moss caught the largest fish. In the 12-to 15-year old group, Andy Morris caught the largest fish — a 14 inch bass while Scott Messamaker had the second largest and Dan Bohlken the third largest.
The event was supervised by an Optimist Club committee composed of Craig Stephenson, Rick Bohning, Bill Ward, John Summa, John Fraze and Bob Bohlken.
100 years ago
Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, July 28, 1925
MARY FRANKEN WINS CONTEST
The Newman Club dollar contest which closed last night was won by Miss Mary Sybilla Franken with Miss Alice Lawler second and a tie between Miss Mary Kinsella and Mrs. A. E. Nash of St. Joseph for third place. The conditions of the contest were to the one who contributed a dollar which was earned in the most unique and clever manner should receive a prize of $10.
The contest had been carried on in an effort to secure funds for the Newman Club House. …
This is how Miss Franken tells of how she earned her dollar:
My dollar I must earn.
But how was my concern.
Many a dollar I have made.
But none in a unique way have I been paid.
I thought of manicuring, dish washing, bathing pets.
But my lucky dollar came from collecting bad debts.
The second prize, the plan of Miss Lawler, was:
The ribbons I used was green and gold
To make little book marks to sell.
Thinking they might attract a fine piece of gold,
Or a nice new ten dollar bill.
Third place was a tie. The one submitted by Miss Mary Kinsella was:
I noticed quite a number of old automobile tires lying around the barn and garage, so I thot(sic) “There’s a dollar in them.” I gathered them all up and took them to a junk shop and got a dollar for them.
The one by Mrs. Nash was:
I earned my dollar selling chips,
A job both hot and hard:
The chips I made were good to eat,
And not found in a yard.
A large variety of plans and a great many schemes were in evidence of ways to earn money. One of the contestants won a dollar in a true incident when a roommate entertained her friend’s “steady” while she was at the show with a “sheik” until her friend got back and appeared as though no “sheik” had ever dated with her.
One contestant formed a stock company with the $10 prize in mind and sold shares at 5 cents each to twenty investors with a dividend provided the prize was secured.
One girl who lives on a farm earned her dollar by running a binder when harvesting oats. Other ways were: walking to work, doing without a mid-week date, hoeing weeds, swatting flies at 3 cents a dozen, abstaining from ice cream. While dragging roads are generally considered a “man’s job” yet one 13-year-old girl earned the dollar in this way.
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.
