Forum Flashbacks: April 9-15

By Geoffrey Woehlk | April 10, 2026 |

MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, APRIL 8, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: A New Friend – Ethan Brenner, age 2 1/2, sits on the lap of his new friend, the Crayola Easter Bunny, who was greeting customers and children at Maryville’s Rod’s Hallmark Store, Saturday.

50 years ago

Maryville Daily Forum, April 13, 1976

Council Approves Year-Long Leashing

The Maryville City Council voted Monday night to direct City Manager David Warren to draw up a city ordinance requiring dogs to be leashed or penned the entire year.

The motion was made by Councilman Marlin Slagle, who admitted he had changed his mind since the Council voted down a request to that effect by the Maryville Garden Club several months ago.

Included in the motion directing an ordinance to be drawn up was to include a provision calling for “more stringent” penalties for failing to keep dogs leashed or penned.

Slagle said there had been two recent dog bite incidents, one to a child and one who if “he had been a child would have killed him.”

Slagle’s motion was approved on a 4-0 vote. John Ellis passed.

The Maryville Garden Club had presented petitions calling for a year-around “leash law,” after a petition requesting the opposite action — allowing licensed dogs to run at-large 12 months a year was presented to the Council.

The Council at that time took the position of making no changes in the current leash law and keeping it in effect for six months a year.

75 years ago

Maryville Daily Forum, April 9, 1951

Maitland Elects Christian Mayor

Solomon Christian, who was dismissed from St. Francis hospital here Thursday, was elected mayor of Maitland in the town election there April 3. Christian received 130 votes while his opponent, Frank Schooler, polled 44. Christian had been a patient at the local hospital since Feb. 12 recuperating from injuries sustained in an airplane crash near Graham.

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.