Forum Flashbacks: Jan. 23-29
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, JAN. 26, 2000
25 YEARS AGO: Go Team Go – Mitch Grossoehme holds his daughter Whitney so she can see the action at a basketball game at North Nodaway R-VI recently. Grossoehme is a coach at North Nodaway.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Jan. 28, 1975
An opportunity to do away with parking meters in downtown Maryville was offered to the retail committee of the Chamber of Commerce by the City Council Monday night.
The proposal was made by Councilman Gerald “Doc” Henggeler, and calls for replacing the current parking meters with free two-hour parking in the downtown area with a $1 fine for those who park longer than the limit.
There is, however, one little catch.
Before the parking meters can be removed, the downtown merchants have to come up with $30,600 to pay off a parking lot bond.
Henggeler, in making the proposal, said there had been talk about doing away with the parking meters ever since he first came on the Council three years ago but “this is the first bonafide offer.”
Councilman Gerald Meyer said, “If they (the businessmen) don’t want to do it, it’s on their shoulders.”
Despite a unanimous vote on the proposal, councilmen were not optimistic it would be accepted by downtown businessmen.
100 years ago
The Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, Jan. 24, 1925
BREAKS JAIL LAST NIGHT
Three of the prisoners who were held for robbing the Stalling Mercantile Store at Barnard are now at large. Two of the men recently gave bond in Circuit Court. Last night, the third member of the gang, Arthur Henry, broke jail and escaped in a Ford coupe.
Henry made his escape by sawing through the staple which held the huge lock, pulling the lock through it. Mrs. Lloyd Heifner’s Ford coupe was in the garage on the county jail property and this he made off with.
What time he made his escape is unknown. None of the prisoners in the “Death Cell” where he was confined heard him at work sawing his way to freedom. His escape was not noticed until this morning when the sheriff was taking breakfast to the prisoners.
Henry is supposed to make his home in St. Joseph. He with Clarence L. Spargur and George Neal, are charged with the rifling of the Barnard Store on November 18. Their trial was set for January 28 in Circuit Court.
How Henry obtained the saw is another mystery.
Henry was tracked this morning by Deputy Sheriff England as far as Ravenwood, where it was found the escaped prisoner bought gasoline and oil. …
He obtained from $2 to $3 from William Helpley yesterday, who was confined in the same cell with him. W. Zemke and Helpley were the only others who were kept in the same cell with Henry. They said this morning that they did not hear him working during the night while he was cutting through the steel. It is not known what kind of a saw he used as he took it with him.
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.
