Forum Flashbacks: Nov. 2-8
FORUM FILE PHOTO
50 YEARS AGO: Other award winners at the banquet … included: (back row left to right) Kay Barman, and Marguerite Young from the Martha Washington Club which received the Council Attendance award. In the front row, left to right, are: Steve Henry and Ray Luke of the Jefferson Club which received the highest percentage enrollment increase award.
5 years ago
Picture a very old and overgrown cemetery, so dense with thorny raspberry bushes, Black Locust trees and poison ivy, it would be difficult to enter, let alone walk around.
Now, imagine 31 goats being dropped off at 3 p.m. one day and returning fewer than 24 hours later to be able to traverse the grounds perusing headstones.
This is exactly what occurred last week at the Morehouse Cemetery located in a bean field just southwest of Hopkins.
Kathryn Paulson and her sister Karen Switzer, both formerly of Hopkins, seek to clean up and set right the stones of their family cemetery and last week they were able to more easily access it thanks to those goats.
The business is called Goats on the Go and headquartered in Ames, Iowa. The closest affiliate to the cemetery is in Smithville, Missouri, where Margaret Chamas operates Storm Dancer Farm. …
(Paulson) said Chamas arrived with a trailer full of 31 goats that exited the trailer excited to eat. Chamas put up a fence electrified through a solar panel unit and the goats stayed put.
The owner of the property to be “goat-managed” supplies water, and zero food. The goats will eat as much as they can reach, including small saplings, even standing on their back two legs to reach up to five feet up larger trees.
“Bless their little hearts they’re just as cute as can be,” Paulson said.
50 years ago
A barrage of reports on unidentified flying objects was reported Thursday night, as the UFOs were seen by private citizens and law enforcement officers.
The first report was made by three girls at 7:51 p.m., who said they saw a UFO near Pumpkin Center. A State Patrol trooper also reportedly saw the UFO in that area.
The next report came in at 8:45 p.m., when public safety officers reported that the object was moving closer to Maryville. At 8:48 p.m. a report on the police log stated that something was headed for Maryville at an altitude of 3,000 to 4,000 feet.
Clifford Dotson, public safety director, said he and two other officers were in the vicinity of Truman Road when they saw the object and attempted unsuccessfully to follow it.
Dotson said the object was moving very fast and was blinking on and off. He had no explanation for what the object could be.
Several other persons also said they saw the UFO in the Maryville area, and a Ravenwood woman reported that she saw a moving white light “explode” and disappear about five miles southeast of Ravenwood.
100 years ago
MANY MEN GIVEN WORK ON FARMS
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The employment bureau of the Maryville Chamber of Commerce is meeting with great success.
In the last few days, thirty men have been placed on farms in all parts of Nodaway County.
Calls have been received from southern Iowa for farm help but it is the purpose of the local Chamber of Commerce to serve Nodaway County first, not only in employment service, but in others as well.
Up until yesterday the local organization was able to supply the demand for farm help, but there have been twenty calls received since then that the Chamber of Commerce is unable to fill.
The employment service is one of the features of the work of the Chamber of Commerce. It aims to bring about a connection between the prospective employee and employer. This service, of course, is being conducted without charge to either party.
Eight or nine men have been placed in positions in town within the last few days. There are now so many calls for farm help that the employment bureau has been unable to supply the demand, and any man who desires farm work should apply to the Chamber of Commerce. It is the intention to make the Maryville Chamber of Commerce a clearing house for employment throughout the county, regardless of any kind of work offered or desired.
*EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50-year and 100-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com. The original 50-year article ran in the Nov. 2, 1973, issue of the Maryville Daily Forum. The original 100-year article ran in the Nov. 8, 1923, issue of the Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, which would eventually become the Maryville Forum.
FORUM FILE PHOTO
50 YEARS AGO: Pictured in the picture … at the Nodaway County 4-H Recognition night Saturday held at the Maryville R-II High School are (left to right) Steve Frueh, Outstanding Junior Boy; Cindy Helzer, “I Dare You,” award winner; Pat Spoor, Outstanding Senior Girl award winner; and Donnie Laughlin, Outstanding Senior Boy. Not pictured are: Joan Collins, Outstanding Junior Girl award and Jim Collins, “I Dare You,” award winner.
