Forum Flashbacks: Sept. 3-9
MARYVILLE DAILY FORUM, SEPT. 6, 2001
25 YEARS AGO: Children going to school this morning were greeted by Nancy Charley, Eugene Field Elementary School’s crossing guard. She was greeting students much like she does every morning with a big hello and a smile, rain or shine. The area received welcome showers this morning and more are expected throughout the day and into tomorrow.
50 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Sept. 4, 1976
Local Octogenarian Freshman Tries Hand at Higher Learning
It’s back to school again, after 64 years, for one Maryville resident.
Orlen Kelley, 82, started back to school Monday at Northwest Missouri State University after having been out of school since 1912.
He is enrolled in two classes, political science and English composition.
“This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, but just seemed never to get around to it,” he commented. But when a neighbor, who also is attending NWMSU, showed him a folder concerning some of the courses available, and offered him transportation each morning, since he no longer drives because of an illness, he decided to give it a try. Too, at his age, classes were tuition free.
On Thursday and Friday he had busy days as he took examinations for his high school diploma, which he had never received.
Kelley was graduated from the eighth grade at the age of 13 from Mozingo Valley School, east of Pickering. Because his parents, the late Henry and Sarah Kelley, did not want to send him to town to school he took the eighth two more years. After the family moved to Maryville, he entered school, but still had to take a half year of eighth grade again because he had gotten off to a late start in classes, he stated.
75 years ago
Maryville Daily Forum, Sept. 4, 1951
Siren Subject Of Suit Against Burlington Jct.
The state of Missouri, through the prosecuting attorney of Nodaway county, Friday filed suit in circuit court against the city of Burlington Junction and Gus Buckridge, mayor, Kenneth Bears, Gerald Williams, William Reed and William Shades, aldermen. The state charges that the operation and sounding of a large alarm and signal siren at late hours of night by the defendants constitutes a public nuisance.
The state charges the defendants with sounding the alarm for about one minute at 10 p.m. every night and so disturbing the peace of residents in Burlington Junction. The alarm is located at housetop level in the residential section.
The complaint, signed by Prosecuting Attorney Walter Lethem, is the result of a petition signed by Burlington Junction citizens.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 50- and 75-year flashbacks are courtesy of the Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri, accessible at shsmo.newspapers.com.
