The Way It Was

100 years ago:

Second regiment ready for camp; set to leave tonight

The first section of the Second regiment special train will start from Nevada tonight about 9:15.

Company A of Carthage and C company of Lamar will come here on the regular train, and will transfer to special train at this point.

Headquarters, Col. Mitchell and staff, regimental band, hospital corps and Company H will take a train here with Carthage and Lamar companies.

This train will pick up, en route, Company B at Butler and Company L at Harrisonville.

75 years ago:

Bank at Maxville robbed of $8,000

MAXVILLE, Mo. -- Authorities in this vicinity were today on the lookout for two bandits who robbed the Maxville bank yesterday of $8,000 in cash.

Louis J. Roesch, the bank cashier, was accosted on the street by the bandits, on his way back to work after dinner, and forced to go to the bank and open the vault for them.

50 years ago:

Neighbors' Day crowd sees demonstration at Camp Clark

More than 500 persons viewed an impressive demonstration by the members of Company A, 135th Tank Battalion and their Medical Detachment yesterday afternoon at Camp Clark.

Captain Woodrow Simmons, commander of the local unit, began the demonstration with a brief history of the National Guard and of the 135th Tank Battalion.

Following Captain Simmons' review of the history he narrated a demonstration of vehicles of the unit and an obstacle-course exercise by a jeep and a 2.5-ton truck.

Next on the program was a simulated attack by five tanks with simulated artillery support, after which the tanks were brought up on line and the duties of the five-man crew of each tank were explained.