125 Years Ago: 1901
The Parnell band played excellent music at night this weekend. Mr. Bryant, showman of the traveling Bryant’s’ Comedy Company, believed this was the best band he had seen during his travels for over two months.
The Fourth Quarterly Conference of the Ravenwood Methodist Episcopal charge was held in Ravenwood on Aug 10 & 11. The preaching on Saturday was followed by the business of the Quarterly Conference and on Sunday service all children who desire it were baptized.
The Maryville ice plant had a capacity of eighty tons per day but that didn’t seem to supply the demands of the hot weather that came this week.
75 Years Ago: 1951
The “Maryvillian” yearbook of Maryville High School, received a “I” rating in the state yearbook contests. This was the highest state rating ever achieved by a Maryville High annual.
Out of a possible 1,055 points, the local yearbook got a total of 1,045, not including any extra points added for exceptional sections of the publication. Co-editors were Nancy Franke, Arlene Day, and Elvalee Donaldson.
Mrs. E. D. Imes from Maryville won a medal at the Bethany Women’s Invitational golf tournament. Mrs. Bohm Townsend was the winner in flight F and Mrs. Rex Horn, was the winner of flight M. They were both from Maryville as well.
A group of neighbors put up the hay on the farm of Jesse Ray, who had been ill. The farm was located three miles south of Maryville.
50 Years Ago: 1976
At noon on Aug 15, hairstylists in Maryville and across the nation began working for 24 straight hours to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Nine area hairstylists cut and styled hair at the Hair Clinic. All charges and proceeds from the style-a-thon were sent to the support of the hospital.
Board members of the North Nodaway School in Hopkins approved the request to the Missouri Department of Education for four L-shaped desks, four electric typewriters, two electronic calculators, and eight secretarial chairs.
Trained personnel were provided in answer to the overwhelming demand for vocational agricultural teachers. Twenty to twenty-five students at NWMSU majored in agricultural education and expected a demand for their services when they graduated.