Forum Flashbacks: Aug. 6-12
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, AUG. 8, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: Happy Birthday to You – Dylan Cole Heideman celebrates his first birthday at Sisson-Eek Park in Maryville with his mom, Angie Heideman. Dylan had fun swinging and had one of his favorites, a Happy Meal from McDonald’s for his birthday lunch.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Aug. 7, 1976
This Old Time Fiddler Has Bona Fide Old Credentials
The Graham Old Time Pickers and Fiddlers contest starts today and one judge’s credentials as an old time fiddler were verified beyond a shadow of a doubt in a search of the Forum’s microfilm files.
Cyril Stinnett, then of Graham, won first place in the old fiddlers’ contest at the Maryville fall fair in October 1932. What drew the incident to our attention was the fact that although only five persons entered the contest, their music had a much wider audience when, in some freak electrical occurrence, radios 6 ½ miles away began to pick up the program on their three-tube radios even though the contest wasn’t being broadcast except via a loudspeaker system on the square.
Stinnett is judging the contest this year after winning the first place award in the contest last year.
75 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Aug. 6, 1951
Maryville Girl Wins Seat-Hand Class
Four stake events climaxed the concluding division of the Seventh Annual Northwest Missouri Horse Show last night at the Maryville Fairgrounds.
With the weather providing an almost ideal setting, a judge with American Royal experience, an announcer considered “tops” in the horse show world, and a varied program of background music, the ten classes of competition moved along at a well-organized pace, under the direction of President Charles Foster, the secretary, Mrs. Lester Swaney, and their assistants.
The spectators with generous applause showed their approval of Judge Fred W. Holekamp’s decisions, especially when young Miss Sally Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jackson, Jr., Maryville, won the seat and hands class in a field of nine more adults entries and when Powerhouse, owned by Bobby Hinman of North Platte, Neb., and shown by Martin Cockriel, took the five-gaited stake of $100.
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.
