100 years ago

march 16, 1911

City Offices Move

The city offices have been moved to the room back of the Marion National Bank. The room is occupied by I.E. Myers with his real estate office and he will continue to use the room, as the meetings of the city commissioners, which take place in the evening, will not interfere with his occupancy. The commissioners have a lease on the rooms, which they have been using, but the new room is furnished to them by Brown Corby without any rent and hence the city will not pay double rent. The old room will likely be sub-let. The reasons for making the change were to secure the use of the bank vault for the deposit of important papers where they could be conveniently gotten while meetings are in progress and also to obviate the necessity of old and feeble people climbing a long flight of stairs in order to register or to transact other business with the city. The city clerk will have his office in the new room and it will be kept open during all business hours.

When you go out gunning for Jackrabbits or cottontails after this, you will have to have a hunter’s license. That’s the new law. Hitherto it has not been necessary. But, the provision has been used to evade other provisions of the law. Hunters would go out for other game without a license and when brought to account for not have a license would say that they were only hunting rabbits. Under the new law, a farmer may shoot rabbits on his own farm without license but not on the road.

The Santa Fe will run a special train for the Lindsborg Messiah on Sunday, April 9. The special will leave Marion at 11:37 a.m. and, returning, will leave Lindsborg at 10 p.m. Fare for the round trip from here will be $2.08. It is probable that Marion will send a large delegation to the great musical festival.

The recent Legislature raised the salary of the County Clerk to $1600, and that of the deputy to $900. That is a deserved raise. No office in the courthouse has heavier work than that of the county clerk. The clerk’s salary is now the same as that of the treasurer.

Mrs. F.L. Frazer’s Sunday school class of six girls, Misses Lois Wood, Mary Olsen, Adeline Mayes, Edna Frazer, Marie Kuhn and Isabel Coburn, entertained Miss Nanie Hannaford’s class of five boys, Maurice Miesse, John Dean, Clifford Farr, Bruce Wilson and Sam Frazer, at the Frazer home on last Friday night.

Walter Siebert has accepted a position with the Marion National Bank and will begin work Monday morning. He is one of Marion’s best young men and we are confident that he will more than make good.

The finishing work on the rooms to be occupied by Dr. Smith’s new hospital is progressing rapidly.