100 years ago

september 1, 1910

School Announcement

The city schools will open Monday, September 5. There will be no changes in the arrangements for the grades. All pupils who were regularly promoted will find their places.

Buy no supplies before conferring with the teacher. The teachers will give pupils lists of all needed supplies and pupils and parents are expected to provide all needed supplies.

The Great Dode Fisk Show is coming to Marion Friday, September. 16. There will be a grand, gratuitous parade every day at 12:30 noon and two big performances daily at 2 and 8 p.m. Special attraction will be Mercury, the wonderful Airship Horse, who will sweep in in pyrotechnic splendor — a prodigious spectacle of bewildering beauty.

New boilers are being put in the basement of the High School building this week and other work done in preparations for the beginning of school.

The explosion of a lamp caused a small blaze and considerable excitement Sunday evening about 7:30 in D.W. Wheeler’s law office over the Red Cross Pharmacy. An alarm was turned in and the fire department made a run but their services were not needed.

The oats are threshing out 74 bushels to the acre out on the Heise place west of town. Similar reports are being received from other localities. We hope when Dr. Hannaford sits down to look over his copy of the Record up there in his Mount Vernon, Washington, home, he won’t overlook this little item. Of course, the doctor will be scanning the pages eagerly for reports of damage done by hot winds, cyclones, floods, frost, etc., and won’t be expecting to read anything like the above good report. But, we hope he will see it just the same.

The average wages paid to teachers in the country schools the coming year is higher than ever before. Last year the average for men teachers was $62 and for women $53. This year the average will be about $65 and $55.

Dr. and Mrs. J.N. Rogers and son Harry expect to leave Monday for Los Angeles, California. Later they will go to San Diego and may locate at the place. The farm and household goods will be sold at sales Friday and Saturday of this week. The town house will be rented and the drug store closed. Dr. Rogers was one of the earliest settlers and is one of the most widely known men in the county. He represented Marion County in the legislature during the Lewellen administration. Mrs. Rogers will be missed here perhaps more than any other woman who could leave the community. She has given herself freely to benevolent enterprises and to sympathetic ministrations among the sick and in the homes where death has entered. For many years, she has been prominent in society and her friends are legion. All will join in hoping that the doctor’s failing health will be restored by the change of climate.

MOVE TO-MORROW

It is raining today, one of those old-fashioned drizzle-drazzles. But, if that sort of thing isn’t happening tomorrow, the Record will move to its new building and be ready for business there Saturday morning. The building isn’t done yet, but far enough along so that we can take possession. More about our new quarters later—the finest little print shop in Kansas, thank you.