Forum Flashbacks: June 18-24
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, JUNE 19, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: Tire Swing Fun – Ready, Set, Let’s Go Already. This is so fun, at least that’s what Angelica and big brother Yesenia thought when Brandi would give them a boost on the tire swing. Don’t you just love summer?
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, June 19, 1976
University Small Car Project In Pursuit of Big Gas Savings
In a summer when more cars are traveling more miles and burning more gasoline than ever in the United States, Northwest Missouri State University’s department of industrial arts education and technology is working on ways to reverse this trend.
Under the direction of Dr. J.C. Rhoades, associate professor in the department, a student group, called the Bearcat High Performance Team, has succeeded in increasing the fuel efficiency of a department-owned compact car from 20 to more than 30 miles per gallon in actual road tests.
The “Pinto Project,” a name which reflects the make of the department’s 1975 two-door test sedan, gives NWMSU students in power mechanics classes practical laboratory experiences and involves them in goals consistent with the national interest in fuel economy, explains Dr. Rhoades. …
With a good tune-up and operating at optimum conditions on the dyno-mometer, a maximum of 32.8 miles per gallon has been achieved.
Dr. Rhoades thinks the maximum possible is 50 miles per gallon of gasoline.
75 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, June 18, 1951
More Than 200 Pay Tribute to Chapel Founded in 1901 by John Workman
Yesterday a group of more than 200 persons gathered in a Nodaway county community, familiarly called “Toad Hollow,” to observe the 50th anniversary of a chapel founded by a man who professed no specific religious creed.
Workman chapel was dedicated a non-denominational church on Sunday, June 16, 1901, by John Workman, a farmer residing one-half mile east of the church site. Located 12 miles northeast of Maryville, the chapel is bordered to the east and south by a well-kept cemetery and to the west by a grove of maple and oak trees under which the annual basket dinner and services are held. …
Reminiscing over the dedication ceremony on that third Sunday in June, 1901, one of the old residents said “why those were horse and buggy days.” “The grove over the hill was lined with buggies and the trees in this grove where we had our dinner were just sprouts,” he added.
125 years ago
Nodaway Democrat, June 20, 1901
Workman Chapel Dedicated
The Workman Union Chapel, six miles northwest of Pickering was dedicated last Sabbath. …
There was a basket dinner.
The Union Chapel was built by Mr. Workman in memory of his wife, deceased. It is intended for the use of all the religious denominations. The size of the edifice is 28×40 and its seating capacity from 300 to 400.
It stands as a monument to the generosity and liberality of Mr. Workman, its founder.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50-, 75- and 125-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
