The origin of the 102 River is a mistake in the initial map of Missouri’s northern border with Iowa when Missouri became a state in 1821. The northern border was supposed to be exactly 100 miles north of the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers at what became Kansas City. However, surveyors made errors in marking that area, so the border extended 10 miles farther into Iowa (which would have made what is now Clarinda, Iowa, part of Missouri).
Highest The Scouts from left to right: Richard Hale Leet, age 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Leet, started scouting Oct. 12, 1938; Austin K. Mutz, age 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Mutz, stared scouting October 10, 1937; Herbert R. Dieterich, Jr., age 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.R. Dieterich, began scouting May 3, 1937; Robert L. McDougal, age 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. John McDougal, began scouting Oct. 11, 1937, all members of Troop 75, and Charles Wolfers, age 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wolfers, member of scout troop No. 80. Source: Maryville Daily Forum Oct 29, 1940 p1
Officers of Battery C, 128th F. A. Shown above are the officers of the Regimental band and Battery C. 128th F. A. When they left Maryville for active service in 1940. Top picture. left to right: Warrant Officer, Ralph Yehle, Capt. Robert S. Perkins, Major Edward V. Condon, and First Lieutenant Guy R. Shelton. Yehle owned a music store for years. Robert S. Perkins’ wife, Mabel Perkins, was active in the Garden Club, and the park, the St. Francis statue at Lincoln and Main (the old Big Pump location) is named Mabel Perkins Park. Condon owned Condon’s Corner Drug and was a lifelong friend of Harry Truman.
On May 4, 1919, thousands of people in Kansas City greeted troops from the Maryville-based 129th Field Artillery. They paraded up Grand Avenue, passing under a Victory Arch built en route to a celebration at Convention Hall (in the former parking area across from today’s Municipal Auditorium).
First Nodaway County Boy Called in Draft On October 20, 1940. When the national selective service system drafted No. 158 as the first man in each county to be called for the draft, it selected Donald Edward Comer of Ravenwood, who was then employed and 22 years old.
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KXCV helped KNIM get back on the air after an arson fire on January 1, 1977. KNIM AM was back on the air by 12:30 on Jan. 1 and resumed normal programming on January 2.
During the winter of 1943, Nodaway County offered a 10-cent bounty on groundhogs (as well as a $5 bounty on wolves).
Here are colorized images from the KNIM announcement of an open house after it went live on April 8, 1953.
The founding of the Conception is quite an amazing story. To begin with, Conception is not based on the virgin birth as many people believe, but rather on the Catholic teaching that Mary was immaculately conceived in the womb and thus without sin. This teaching was promoted in 1854. In 1855, William Brady led a group of Irish immigrants from Reading, Pennsylvania, to Nodaway County in search of cheap land. Brady and his family walked more than 40 miles from St. Joseph to the Conception area in an era when there were no roads. They named the community for the Papal rule that had just been instituted in 1854.
The photo is from the August 2, 1975 issue of the Forum. The caption says A family portrait taken Aug. 16, 1891, shows Irishman Johnnie; son-in-law Robert Graham; grandchildren William Brady and his wife, Rose, in the center; and Lily and Mamie Keeler; daughter Alicia Brady in the foreground. Brady was an organizer and legal representative of the Irish settlers, who founded the Ann Catholic colony at Conception. Brady’s sons were Tomas and Sarsfield; son was James P.; grandchildren were Josephine and others. From left to right: Son, Alicia Keeler, and daughter, Elizabethe Brady Meyer.
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