Forum Flashbacks

50 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Sept. 12, 1974 In the last 10 years Don Corrough has lived on his property in Arkoe, about 250 person have come to his door asking if they could dig up his yard. Corrough has said yes to just about every one of them. He lives on a farm…

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Sept. 8, 1999 Editorial: E-Bay pranks getting out of control Recently, e-Bay, the online auction site where rare collectibles and various other things can be auctioned off, had to stop one of its people from auctioning off a kidney. Then, just the other day, another person had to be…

50 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Sept. 3, 1974 Omnibus of OpinionBy Katherine CraftForum Reporter Five million Americans live alone. Imagine the fear they have that someday they may slip and fall, and if they have no regular visitors, that they will lie helplessly in pain. And all it would take to calm that fear…

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Aug. 27, 1999 Let it be known henceforth, that the first victory for the Maryville Spoofhound softball team occurred Thursday, Aug. 26, 1999. The first victim — the Northeast Nodaway Blue Jays. The final score — 6-2. While the above paragraph will be what will be in the record…

50 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, Aug. 15, 1974 By Teresa FruehForum Staff Writer “I came back here to die but it seems like I can’t get the job done,” said Jonathan Robert Wilson, Arkoe, who is known as Rob or Robert. He was 91 on July 31. I remember when he first came here…

100 years ago Maryville Daily Democrat-Forum, Aug. 14, 1924 17-YEAR-OLD BOY TAKEN FOR ROBBER SHOT AT CONCEPTION _______________ Eulas Jerntgan, 17-year-old high school boy of Ector, Texas, was shot and almost instantly killed about 12:30 o’clock last night in the Great Western yards at Conception Junction by Chris From, deputy marshal, who suspected the boy…

50 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, August 1, 1974 Few of us can remember the combined terror-excitement we felt when we knew we would be entering school for the very first time. We cried the whole day, having finally been pulled from our mothers’ skirttails, but the tears eventually dissolved into laughter as we learned…

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, July 25, 1999 Dennis Dau has retired after 20 years of service to the Maryville R-II School District. Dau began his term with the district by replacing Lee Schneider in teaching instrumental music. Schneider came back to the district and he and Dau worked together for the next 12…

50 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, July 19, 1974 The Maryville R-II School Board viewed plans and heard explanations concerning the proposed football field and stadium for the high school at a special meeting of the Board last night held at the Washington Middle School. Hugh Hamlin, of Hamlin, Walker and Breneman, the Kansas City…

25 years ago Maryville Daily Forum, July 14, 1999 It all happened so quickly. One minute, a young child is playing in the pool and the next, he is under water. However, 4-year-old Austin Reynolds is in good condition today following such an incident at the Maryville Aquatic Center. Late yesterday afternoon, the child was…