Forum Flashbacks: March 19-26
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, MARCH 25, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: Higher Mommy! – Two-year-old Amanda Standiford tries to reach the basket with a basketball, during activities at the 4-H basketball tournament Friday held in Hopkins. Amanda made several baskets in a row, with a little help from her mother, Christine Standiford. The tournament is celebrating its 30th year and continues Sunday. Special recognition was given to its organizer Scott Graham and also to Pam Spire, by the Nodaway County 4-H Clubs.
Higher Mommy!
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, March 20, 1976
Track Team Tests New Facility March 30
Improved team speed and strength in the field events will be tested for the first time March 30 when the Maryville track team meets LeBlond in a dual at the ’Hounds new track at the R-2 High School.
The girls get under way the following day in a dual-quad meet at the new track to be run by the Northwest Missouri State university track team. It will feature four college teams and four high school teams.
The new track and fine prespring weather have contributed to excellent workouts by both the boys and girls team. “It’s just tremendous,” head coach Jim Wakeman said of the new asphalt track. “You can have a great workout. There was no place to run last year.”
75 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, March 26, 1951
Open House Brings Crowd of 4,900 To Local Store
“Far beyond expectations” was the way Gene and Garth Espey described the results of their open house and free chick day Saturday at the Farmers Produce and Feed store, 117 West Franklin street.
Approximately 4,900 people visited at the store, according to the proprietors. Some 4600 chicks were given away during the first two and one-half hours. After the supply ran out, coupons were given out for the free chicks with the recipient to come back this week.
The operators announced that the chicks would be available Thursday, rather than Tuesday as announced. The order was so large that it could not be filled until Thursday.
Maurice Johnson, sales manager for Staley Feed company, said it was one of the largest crowds he had ever seen for a business in a town the size of Maryville. Sam Moore, district salesman for the company, maintained that the open house was as large as any that the Staley organization had sponsored.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50- and 75-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
