The men and women whose lives anchor a leading segment of Nodaway County’s one indispensable industry – agriculture – gathered in the Tri-Meadows Assembly Hall on Saturday to celebrate another year of growth, progress and profitability.
Nearly 300 members of the Nodaway County Cattlemen’s Association attended the organization’s fourth annual Cattlemen’s Roundup, a combo steak dinner – what else? – Benefits auction and scholarship awards ceremony celebrating the achievements of producers whose livestock operations are literally putting meat on America’s table.
This year’s banquet, live and silent auctions, and raffle ticket sales raised over $34,000. Combined with Sponsors of the Year at $14,600, the breeders broke previous records and raised nearly $50,000, before event expenses were factored in.
Affiliated with the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association, the Nodaway Group has grown rapidly since it was founded in 2014 by a handful of area breeders.
Many cell phones rang before 5:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.
These were not wake-up calls. They weren’t telemarketers trying new tactics.
The text message came via Spoofhound Mobile at 5:28 a.m. saying, “by Nodaway Valley Bank – NO SCHOOL TODAY – Maryville R-II will be closed today (February 13) due to weather.”
In this high-tech world, Spoofhound Mobile offers those interested in Maryville School District news a new outlet.
Due to a lack of support, a Maryville Parks and Recreation Board recommendation died before it even reached Maryville City Council’s agenda, city officials said Friday.
In December, the Parks Board passed a motion recommending that city council pass an ordinance banning alcohol in city parks. The Parks Board passed the motion unanimously, after adopting a new policy prohibiting players from consuming alcohol at MPR-sponsored league games.
After realizing that the Board had not acted on its recommendation, the Parks Board again asked MPR Director Rod Auxier to request that the item be placed on the agenda.
However, City Manager David Angerer said it was not necessary as he had already discussed the issue with members of council and there was not enough interest to include the item on the agenda. of the day.
Valentine’s Day devotees always observe her day
Do all the pessimists live in Chicago? In recent days, two saleswomen from this metropolis have deplored, in a public statement, the modern insensitivity attached to Valentine’s Day. “These days, valentines are only bought by sentimental old ladies,” said one of the sellers mentioned above.
It is true that there is little demand for the elaborate lacy paper, the confection of hearts and arrows, dripping with honeyed phrases and sweet confessions which were once sent to the object of her affections, but the Saint -Modern Valentine is a work of art that has evolved with the times until it meaningfully expresses all degrees of friendship or more fervent emotion.
More valentines were sold this year in local stores than in several years and the display has never been more tempting, although much cheaper, than at the time mentioned above. Delicate little cards bearing a message of love or friendship were sent today by many toddlers to a beloved teacher or playmate, while Valentine’s Day postcards expressing appropriate friend-to-friend mottos flooded the mailboxes.
No, the sentiment attached to Valentine’s Day has not changed, it just expresses itself differently.
The 100-year flashback is courtesy of the State Historical Society of Missouri’s Missouri Digital Newspaper Project, viewable at shsmo.org/collections/newspapers/mdnp. The original article was published in the February 14, 1922 edition of the Maryville Tribune, a predecessor of the Maryville Forum.
