125 Years Ago: 1901
The Chicago Great Western Railway offered excursion tickets, one fare for a round trip to Savannah for the annual outing of the Northwest Missouri Log Rolling Association.
The general drought had its effect on the horse and mule market, as well as other things, especially ordinary stock. There was a good demand for good drivers and horses. The demand for small stock is not good and the supply is short.
A deaf man sent $25 to a physician for a sure cure for deafness and received in return 2,000 pills with instructions to take one a day until they were all exhausted. Now the deaf man calls the physician a fraud and wants him fired. They argue that no man can tell what the effect of taking one pill a day for 2,000 consecutive days until one has tried it. It won’t take him quite six years to find out whether the pills will cure him or not, and if they do not, he can demand his money back.
The Elmo baseball club met with its first defeat of its season by the Cowboy nine at Blanchard. Elmo was not in good shape with three of their players gone, but rather than disappoint the crowd, they filled in with other men who were on the grounds attending the game. A total of 48 runs were scored, with the final tally 27-21. Elmo had three baseball teams playing other town teams in the area.
Contractor J.H. Burch from Hopkins filed his bond and contract for building the new schoolhouse at Elmo with the school board. The contract was for $4, 050. He would begin work as soon as the materials could be put on the ground and would push it forward to completion to be ready for use about October 1.
Newsboys were no longer allowed on the Burlington rail line. They were permitted to go through the trains before they left to sell papers, but not fruit.
The drought was broken when a good rainfall took place around 2 a.m., it then rained again Monday morning. People were generally very thankful as well as having more faith for the upcoming fall and winter.
75 Years Ago: 1951
The Maryville fire department was called to Simpson’s service station, 921 South Main Street, when a short circuit in electrical wiring filled the attic with smoke. Firemen disconnected the circuit and little damage was done.
1637 people were placed in employment by the Maryville employment office during July. Of this number, 1589 were employed in seasonal agricultural work. Forty-eight people were in non-agricultural positions: 16 were women.
Nodaway entrants won 15 awards in the eleven classes at the local Horse show. Mrs. George McGuire from Maryville was the only local double winner. Awards in the three-gaited class all went to Maryvillians. They were Mrs. McGuire, Danny DeMott, and Sally Jackson. The judge called young Miss Jackson ‘a natural’ as a rider.
Maryville water supervisor, Harold Allen, suffered head injuries in an accident that occurred at the Maryville water plant. He was repairing a filter at the plant when a valve stem came loose, causing a wheel to fly off, striking him in the back of the head where he was knocked into filtered water until a co-worker pulled him out.
Headquarters and headquarters service company of the 979th Construction Engineers Battalion moved from Burlington Jct. to Maryville to locate on the second story of the Kroger building.
Phil Tobin from Maryville and James Kinman from Ravenwood were declared the winners of Nodaway County’s first plowing contests at the Carl Bote farm, northeast of Burlington Junction, at the Balanced Farming Field Day. Mr. Tobin used an International H tractor and an International two-bottom14-inch plow to win the contour plowing portion. For level land plowing, Mr. Kinman used a Ford tractor and a Ford two-bottom 14-inch plow. Both winners qualified to attend the state contest. Other participants placing were John, Pat, and Kelly Tobin, Ross Pruitt, Leo and Eugene Spire, Earl Pierson, Richard Meek, and Charles Bragg.
Vern Parker, a previous resident of Santa Barbara, was in Maryville for the time being while his wife had been on bedrest since an auto accident several years ago, and receiving medical treatment here. Parker was a famous sculptor, especially for his wood carvings and figures made of the Old West. Another specialty of Parker was carving signs for the wide gates to ranches in the West. A group of his carvings were then placed across the top of the sign that depicted some well-known scenes of the Old West.
50 Years Ago: 1976
The Citizens State Bank of Maryville received $140,000 from the third statewide allocation of general funds under the Missouri Model for the investment of Inactive Funds. Every bank was allowed to apply for the total amount distributed under the allocation that year which was $60 million.
Maryville voters gave a big vote of approval to the one-million-dollar water-sewer revenue bond issue which would provide financing for the expansion of the water plant.
Rosellen F. Workman Cook, 60, the owner of the Missouri Theater, died suddenly on August 5 from a heart attack. Mrs. Cook had managed the theater’s operation since 1966, was a native of Nodaway County, and a Maryville High School graduate, class of 1933. The theater had first opened in 1926, was destroyed by fire in 1944, rebuilt and reopened a year later, and continued until 1957 by her husband, Ray Cook, who had operated it for 31 years. It was closed for 9 years until Mrs. Cook reopened it in 1966.
The theft of 32 hogs from a man in Graham was reported. He said that his hogs were stolen between July 18-27. The hogs were stolen from a farm about four miles west of Pumpkin Center with a total loss of $1,800.
The 13-15-year-old Junior Girls Fast-Pitch All-Tournament team was chosen following the state championship in Maryville. A total of 13 players were named to the honorary team, including Lori Stoll who was named the most valuable player in the tournament.
Flood insurance was available for residential and non-residential properties in Burlington Jct. and Mound City. The flood coverage was offered under requirements by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Northwest Missouri State Board of Regents approved an inflation factor to be used in the next fiscal year. If the budget request, if successful in administrative and legislative consideration, will boost the school’s budget by $1,227,941 over the current budget figure.
Emmett Lane Bartram, longtime Maryville attorney and former legislator, died August 5th. He had graduated from Maryville High School, attended NW Missouri State College, Maryville Business College, and got his law degree at College of Law in Chicago. He served in World War I, and was elected to represent Nodaway County in the Missouri Legislature. He served 33 years as a secretary of the Maryville R-2 School Board.