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