100 years ago

may 18, 1911

With this year’s graduates, the number of alumni of M.H.S. is raised to 203. The first class was graduated in 1884. There have been three years in which there were no graduates—1885, 1886, and 1903. Those who finished school in 1884 were Oscar Clark, Anna Belle Coble, Joshua J. Hall, and Annabel Paddock.

The Children’s’ Aid Society of New York city—the same society which recently found homes here for a number of orphans—will bring a bunch of children to Peabody on June 2, according to a letter recently received from the society by Mayor Jones who had written concerning the little folks who found homes in Marion and vicinity. The party will arrive in Peabody on the afternoon train on Friday, June 2, and a meeting will be held that afternoon and another on the morning of the day following.

Joe Bowlby has written a number of $12,000 life insurance policies for Marion men and a few days ago, one of the policy holders paid him $900 to cover a year’s premium upon one of those policies. This kind of a story given one the impression of good times, a good company, and a good agent.

There will be a public meeting at the Court room next Monday evening May 13, to discuss plans for the celebration of July 4, here. The Retail Dealers Association started the ball rolling and it is their committee which issues the call for this meeting. Every citizen is urged to be present and to help in every way possible in this matter.

Marriage license was issued this week to Mr. Frank Bezdek of Marion and Miss Mary Hajek of Ramona.

There has been one death from the poisoning case in Catlin township of which an account was given last week—the little four- or five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Klaassen. A number of the others—over twenty have been poisoned with ptomaine developed in pressed chicken—are still dangerously ill. Mrs. Keltner, Mrs. Stovall, grandmother of the little girl who died, and Mrs. Anchor Nelson are the ones whom we have heard mentioned as being very sick. It is a most distressing community sorrow.

Robert Meehan went to Kansas City the first of the week and ran a new Buick card down to Ramona for the music dealer at that place.

In some unknown manner, a fire was started in the back part of the Grand Mercantile Co.’s store Tuesday afternoon about five o’clock. Had it not been for the prompt work of the clerks, the result might have been very serious.

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