Stand Up Comic Kathleen Madigan on Noodling (hand fishing) in Missouri

Posted on July 6, 2026 by roger

Kathleen Madigan of Florissant, Missouri has a hilarious stand up on the Missouri tradition of noodling (hand fishing).

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Walter Cronkite’s Dogs in 1930 and 1975

Posted on June 29, 2026 by roger

Amazingly, Maryville plays a role in the history of Walter Cronkite’s dogs!

Specifically, the dogs are terriers belonging to CBS Newscaster Walter Cronkite’s father, Walter Leland Cronkite, Sr., who was a dentist in St. Joseph, where the newscaster was born in November 1916.

The history gets a little complicated since divorces and other marriages are involved, and I will get into that with more detail in a separate article, but this article focuses on the dogs.

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First Kindergarten Class (in Nothwest Missouri Administration Building) 1911

Posted on June 26, 2026 by roger

The first public school kindergarten class in Maryville (and probably Nodaway County) and was held in the Administration — creating a situation where Maryville students could attend all classes from Kindergarten through college bachelors degree in one building.

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Nodaway Valley Bank President Frederick Paul Robinson (1875-1936)

Posted on June 24, 2026 by roger

 

Caption from Forum on : Fred P. Robinson, president of  Nodaway Valley Bank until 1936,when he died, is shown in about 1886 on his high wheeler bicycle.  Picture was furnished by  Mrs. Edward W. Gray, Long Beach, Cal. 

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Advertisement for Scouts and Camp Robinson 1937

Posted on June 23, 2026 by roger

1939 advertisement for Scouting in the Forum. Lots of interesting stuff starting with the strange graphic, which I can’t quite figure out. The aviation and signaling merit pages have dramatically changed, although the safety and athletic meritages are similar. Interesting comment: Scouting keeps boys out of the Booneville, Missouri,** Training School for Boys**. (which, when I Google, I see this: Originally opened in 1883 as a reformatory, it was heavily criticized as one of the nation’s worst juvenile institutions during the Great Depression. And of particular note is the comment that there was an octagon-shaped cabin at Camp Robinson. I don’t recall this, and I don’t remember the cabin that was there until the current structure was built in the late 1960s or early 1970s.

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Train Wreck By Skidmore (or Maitland) in 1903 (?)

Posted on June 22, 2026 by roger

The Forum Nodaway Countians in History column has this photo donated by Merele Hammond which is labeled a train wreck in 1903 a mile north of Skidmore. I cannot find a reference to such a wreck, but I find these two items in 1903 on the same Burlington line, 7 miles south of Skidmore at Maitland.

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Best Groomed 4H Award for 1955

Posted on June 16, 2026 by roger

Here’s a 4H Award in 1955 for best groomed humans awarded at Horace Mann High School. It was on the front page of the Forum. Here’s the caption:

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Byrl Raymond Dougan (1919-1988)

Posted on June 16, 2026 by roger

Byrl Raymond Dougan who worked for United Telephone might be best remember for being the convivial scout master for Troop 75 in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Maryville’s First Stand-Alone School 1857-1867

Posted on June 8, 2026 by roger

In 1857, with Maryville’s population hovering around 500, the school moved from the log cabin courthouse at 2nd and Main to a newly built one-room school at Market and Fifth Street. In 1867, with Maryville’s population nearly tripled to 1,682, Albert Morehouse (future Missouri governor), who was on the school board, pushed to build a new central school at 1st and Vine that would be occupied by three different Washington Schools until the high school moved in 1965 and the middle school moved in 1998, resulting in the last building being torn down.

The above colorized photo is from the 1924 Maryvillian.

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Cooper Cup Competition for “Best Class of the Year” at Maryville High School from 1924 to 1963

Posted on June 7, 2026 by roger

From 1924 to  1963, the “Cooper Cup” was awarded to the Washington high school that racked up the most points in an internal competition that, each year, decided which class was best.  The winner was chosen by the superintendent, principal, and a third party of their choice.  The winner was usually the senior class.

It was named for Joseph A. Cooper, a Baptist minister, in 1924.  L.E. Ziegler was the superintendent that year.  Ziegler was the man who called the football team a bunch of Spoofhounds, and the name unexpectedly stuck.

The above image is from the 1962 Maryvillian yearbook.  Per a Facebook post,  Barbara Logan is holding the cup with Joe Logan. Also pictured are Marilyn Hanna, Sam Nicholas, and Mrs. Opal Eckert.

 

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