Forum Flashbacks: March 6-12
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, MARCH 11, 1975
50 YEARS AGO: Girl Scouts Celebrate Week – Signs such as the one erected here by two members of Brownie Troop 323 are on display in the yards of area Girl Scouts. Putting up their sign Saturday evening to be ready for Girl Scout Week, March 9-15 are Karee White, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don White, Maryville, and Eleesa Baxter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baxter, Barnard.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, March 10, 1975
The home of Nodaway County Pros. Atty. John Fraze was struck by three blasts from a shotgun early Sunday morning, causing an estimated $900 damage.
Fraze and his family escaped injury, although one of the shots sent pellets through the window of a bedroom where one of his daughters was sleeping.
The incident was investigated by the public safety department and the sheriff’s department. Police officials said the blasts occurred about 1 a.m. Sunday. There was between 150 and 200 pellet marks on the front of the house, authorities said.
100 years ago
The Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, March 6, 1925
BRADLEY GETS YEAR IN JAIL
After stalling through two sessions of circuit court Ellis Bradley of Elmo decided to face the music today and continue his companionship with his brother in the county jail.
Bradley withdrew his plea of not guilty to the charge of stealing chickens at night time and entered a plea of guilty in circuit court this afternoon before Judge Guy Park of Platte City, who was sitting as a special judge in this case.
Judge Park fixed Ellis Bradley’s punishment the same as was assessed to Wilson Bradley and Almond Adkins, who pleaded guilty to the same charge February 12 this year, and Ellis Bradley drew a sentence of one year’s confinement in the county jail, the term to commence immediately. …
The information filed in the case against Ellis Bradley is to the effect that he, with Wilson Bradley and Almond Adkins, stole thirty chickens from the Orville Hallsa place, near Elmo, on the night of June 24, 1924, and sold the chickens.
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.
