Forum Flashbacks: Dec. 19-23
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, DEC. 21, 1999
25 YEARS AGO: Want a taste? I’ll share! – Santa Claus and Gavin Hawk share a special moment during a recent Saturday visit by the “Jolly Old Elf,” at Maryville’s Hy-Vee Food Store. Santa was also joined by Mrs. Claus. They were portrayed by Mike Combs and Eulia Mares.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Dec. 23, 1974
EDITOR’S NOTE: The author of this letter suffered a heart attack at City Hall. She said in a telephone conversation this prayer, her favorite, was the thanks she felt she owed the people who helped her.
To the Editor:
A thank you message that comes from my heart to folks that have recently been so kind.
My favorite prayer is for each of you, names unknown.
Thank you God for things that often come our way —
The things we take for granted but don’t mention when we pray,
The unexpected courtesy, the thoughtful kindly deed,
A hand reached out to help us in the time of sudden need.
Oh make us more aware, dear God of little daily graces,
That come to us with “sweet surprise” from never dreamed of places.
Sincerely, Bess Dinsmore
100 years ago
Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, Dec. 22, 1924
A RARE BIRD IS GOBBLER
Turkeys are scarce.
There will be a noticeable lack of turkeys on the Christmas dinner tables in Maryville. The price of turkeys is almost prohibitive, a local poultry dealer said this morning, and also said that there are comparatively no turkeys raised in the county. Most all of the turkeys that will be sold for Christmas dinners here will have to be shipped in. The dealers say there is a steady demand for turkeys, but when the price of 40 cents a pound for dressed turkey is given, the prospective buyer orders chicken.
The local poultry dealers believe that hens and springs are the cheapest fowl that can be bought at the present time. Geese sell at 17 cents a pound alive and ducks are quoted at 20 cents a pound alive this morning.
But lovers of fried chicken and chicken pot-pie may whet up their appetites in the next few days in anticipation of having them satisfied this week and next. … Already the price is down a few cents due to the Eastern embargo on live poultry and it may go lower.
Maryville dealers say that the residents here have not stopped buying poultry just because New Yorkers are in a wave of hysteria over the supposed mysterious poultry disease. Such is the effect of the fear wave in New York, however, that poultry which has been officially approved by the health officers can’t be sold. New York refuses to eat poultry, clean or infected.
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.
