70 years ago

april 22, 1948

Members of Marion Kiwanis Club, with their wives and guests, will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the club Monday evening at a banquet in the City Building. An interesting program is planned. W.J. Poundstone, Winfield, first club president, and Mrs. Poundstone are expected to attend.

Pictured on the front page is L. King and his trash wagon. On the wagon with him are children from the Weidenbener and Neuhauser families. The scene will bring a moment of nostalgia from long ago to many men and women who were kids in Marion and rode on the wagon with King.

Nine pupils at New Hope school and their teacher, Miss Wanda Ireland, took in the sights at Marion on Tuesday.

The 3-act comedy “Beauty and the Beef” will be presented Thursday and Friday by the senior class of Marion High School. Lead parts will be played by Anne Burkholder, Dean Hansen, Betty Williams, Dean Waddell, William Zeller, Betty Holmes, Charles Gutsch, Cherridah Mullikin, and Warren Hayen. Miss Maude Thompson is the director.

Misses Donna Powell, Alta Stenzel, and Coleen Vogel, members of the girls’ glee club at the nurse’s training school at Research Hospital in Kansas City, joined other glee clubs recently in a performance of Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge at Kansas City.