Nodaway County Offer 10 cent Bounties on Groundhogs in 1943

Posted on February 1, 2026 by roger

During the winter of 1943, Nodaway County offered a 10-cent bounty on groundhogs (as well as a $5 bounty on wolves).

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KNIM First Broadcast April 8, 1953

Posted on February 1, 2026 by roger

Here are colorized images from the KNIM announcement of an open house after it went live on April 8, 1953.

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Conception is Not Named for the Virgin Birth

Posted on February 1, 2026 by roger

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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1966 Donkey Ball Game at Beal Park

Posted on January 30, 2026 by roger

Donkey Ball Game at Beal Park Sepember 2, 1966

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No Room in the Inn and A Stable Part of the First Birth at St. Francis Hospital Story on March 10, 1903

Posted on January 30, 2026 by roger

“No room at the inn” and a stable figure into the narrative of the first birth at St. Francis Hospital on March 10, 1903.  In that era, births were usually handled at home, often with a practical nurse.  Francis May Baldwin, the daughter of the Christian Church minister at Skidmore, was the firstborn at the hospital but did not attend the 1922 event.

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Trailer Courts in Maryville in 1972

Posted on January 30, 2026 by roger

Here’s a list of 10 Nodaway County Trailer Courts in 1972 — all of them in Maryville (based on a report on county assessments).

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1969 Mic-O-Say Pow Wow at Camp Robinson

Posted on January 29, 2026 by roger
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-maryville-daily-forum-mic-o-say-camp/190004149/

Colorized 1969 image: Mic-O-Say Leaders Attend Pow-Wow Leaders in promoting the Mic-O-Say Tribe of Dancers in the Otoe District Boy Scouts are shown attending the Pow- Wow held at Camp Robinson, Maryville, Saturday. The men and their Indian names from left to right, Richard Wiles, Golden Coin, Maryville; Roger Thom, Swimming Rock, Kansas City; Lloyd Schmidt, Tree Hunter, Savannah; Bud Gossett, Antelope Skinner, St. Joseph; Galen Russell, Singing Wire, Maryville; Wayne McDonald, Flaming Iron, Maryville; Charles McComb, Magic Sound, Oregon; Herman Boswell, Roaring Thunder, Maryville, and Jim Mercer, White Patch, Albany

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How the Maryville High School Newspaper Hi-Lights Got the Only Published Photo of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Strange Maryville Visit on Feb 13, 1959

Posted on January 29, 2026 by roger

A lot of strange events occurred during Eleanor Roosevelt’s February 13, 1959, lecture at Northwest Missouri, and Eleanor herself clarified items in her daily “My Day” column that reporters covering the event missed.  And the Maryville High School newspaper “Hi Lights” scooped everybody with the only published photo of her (in her mink!) in Maryville.

Spoiler alert: The most amazing part centers on her being driven from the St. Joseph Union Train Depot to the event by Bob Owens, a senior from Grant City and the Northwest student president.  Owens is better known as B.D. Owens was president of the college from 1977-1984 (the first and, I believe, only college president at the school to graduate from Northwest).  Owens tenure is marked by the 1979 fire that destroyed the north theatre wing of the Administration Building where Mrs. Roosevelt spoke.  Owens wife was a music teacher at Maryville High School (and hence the Hi-Lights exclusive).

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Northwest’s “Vet Village” After World War II Started with 6 Clarinda Camp POW Barracks

Posted on January 27, 2026 by roger

Northwest’s “Vet Village” north of the Administration on Maryville’s highest point, which they called “College Heights,” started with the six barracks from the Camp Clarinda World War II POW camp. The Vet Village was dismantled with the 1968 construction of the Garrett-Strong Science Building
Above colorized image of the Vet Village shows the 6 barracks and 10 Quonset huts in 1958 to the north of the Administration Building (the north theatre wing of the building was destroyed in 1979 fire and was never replaced).

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Maryville Country Club Course Designed by James W. Watson Who Designed Mission Hills Course

Posted on January 25, 2026 by roger

Initial plans in 1921 for a golf course in Maryville called for a partnership with the college, with the course to be designed by James W. Watson, who designed the Mission Hills Golf Course.  The initial course plan called for it to extend nearly a mile from the old Methodist Seminary at First and Memory Street to the Chatauqua Park (between today’s Houston Performing Arts Center and the Hughes Field House) and come back to Maryville’s highest point, the 1,181-foot-high College Heights summit (today’s Garrett-Strong Science) to the north of the Administration Building.

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