Forum Flashbacks: Aug. 21-27
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, AUG. 22, 2000
25 YEARS AGO: Lollipop slide – Emily Mattson gets her lollipop from Jerry Eckstein, AKA Abe Lincoln, chairman of the Lollipop Parade committee, as she gets to the end of the slide, following the Lollipop Parade in Conception Junction, Sunday. Each child had to go down the new slide to get their lollipop at the dedication of the playground equipment.
25 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Aug. 23, 2000
Father, son to be serving in Eastern Europe area at same time
Fathers and sons do many things together.
Richard Carpenter and his son, Christopher, are both in the Army National Guard Reserves and will soon both be in active duty in Eastern Europe. They will serve with the 313th Surgical Hospital of Springfield, Mo.
Christopher will be in Macedonia as a staff sgt., serving in an operating room as the Non-commissioned Officer In Charge (NCOIC). Richard will serve in a more administrative role in Kosovo, with the rank of major.
After leaving Thursday, Richard estimates they will be gone until April 2001.
He says this time frame includes training, which will take place in the United States and Germany, and “six months in the zone.” …
Active duty will also mean putting-off certain things for Christopher, both professional and personally.
“I think wedding plans have been put on hold until all of this comes down to Earth again,” mother Elouise notes.
For now, Christopher and his fiancée have postponed their nuptials until his return. Serving his country will also mean Christopher will delay his graduation from Northwest Missouri State University.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Aug. 26, 1975
EOC Office to Hold Seniors’ Center
A target date of Oct. 1 has been set for a Nodaway County senior citizens center, according to E. C. Walker of the Northwest Missouri Economic Opportunity Corp.
The center, to be housed in the old Gibson’s store on the 200 block of West Third Street, also will be the new location of the five-county EOC administrative office and the Nodaway County contact office.
Walker said the Meals for the Elderly program will shift to the new center from the Margaret Davison Complex when the building is ready for occupancy.
“We also plan to establish a more elaborate senior citizens center for the county,” Walker said.
He said with group activities coordinated in the new building, a crafts program started and more social activities, the new location would become a true senior citizens center.
100 years ago
Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, Aug. 27, 1925
Workmen Busy Dismantling Old Seminary: Structure Opened For School in 1891
Struggling for its existence under favorable and sometimes unfavorable conditions, and at last giving way to a state institution, the building which housed the Maryville Seminary, located in the west part of the city, is now being dismantled and the brick and lumber hauled near the power plant on the campus of the Northwest Missouri State Teachers College.
According to W. F. Phares, president of the board of regents of the College, the material taken from the old brick building, windowless for many years, and unoccupied as a school since 1910, will eventually be used for construction purposes at the College. Additions to the power plant and coal bins, a garage and a machine shed to house the farm machinery are under advisement by the board of regents at the present time, although the locations for the new buildings have not been determined. …
The Maryville Seminary was attended by many Maryville persons now prominent in a business way and socially. The Maryville citizens in the late 80’s labored zealously to furnish Maryville with an educational institution besides the public schools and the Seminary was the result of their ambitions and struggles. The Seminary finally became a part and parcel of the Northwest Missouri State Teachers College and perhaps was one of the reasons the state officials considered Maryville for the seat of the present College is the fact that the Seminary was offered as a donation to the state. …
The Seminary was discontinued the year the state Normal School was started. It was under the management of the Maryville First M. E. Church and the board of trustees employed the teachers. Although the school was under the management of a church organization it was non-sectarian.
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.
