100 years ago

january 14, 1909

Courthouse notes

On Monday occurred the changes at the courthouse made by last fall’s election. County Commissioners Jolliffe and Loveless were sworn in, as was W. O. Hannaford, clerk of the district court.

The first official act this year for I.E. Myers, retiring clerk of the district court, was to administer the oath of office to R.L. King as judge of the district court. The judge is holding court this week at Abilene.

Basket Ball Notes

The first game last Friday night was very exciting to the end, for both teams worked hard and it seemed impossible for either side to throw a field goal, for there was but one field goal. The score stood 10 to 9, favor of the Florence girls.

In the second game the boys started out as if they had a walk-away, but the Florence boys picked up and at the end of the first half, the score was 11 plus. Paul Williams was hurt in the first half, but he played the rest of the game. The score was 31 to 23, for Florence.

M.H.S. will play Burns H.S. at Florence Friday night, Jan. 15.

There is only one more game here on the home grounds and we need your patronage for we have lost money on nearly every game. Everyone come.

Beginning Tuesday of last week, the weatherman has given us a change in the order of things that made all of us “sit up and take notice.” The thermometer dropped to four below zero and made little change until Friday afternoon and by Saturday afternoon; the four-inch ice in the streams was covered with water. Saturday afternoon the wind shifted to the north and by seven o’clock Sunday morning the temperature was almost zero and a strong wind from the north. From Sunday at 8 a.m. to Monday, same hour, the temperature did not vary from one degree above zero. By 9:30 Monday morning the air was filled with snow, the good old time kind, and now there is a good six-inch snow on the ground.

Mr. C. Kibler of Cavalier, North Dakota, located in the famous Red River valley, was for several days past the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Kreutziger at Canada and old friends in Marion. Mrs. Kreutziger is a sister of Mr. Kibler, whom he had not seen for twenty-six years. It gets cold up in Cavalier—about forty to forty-five degrees below zero, but it is a dry cold and does not cause the suffering the thermometer reading would indicate. Mr. Kibler is very much in love with his part of the United States.

Last Friday Ray Smith purchased three lots of Mr. Paul F. Jones at the corner of Denver and Washington streets and will soon begin the erection of a colonial modern home, with large cistern and cellar. He will also have the house wired for electric light.

Reuben Bates who is doing blacksmithing with Dolese Bros., near Lawton, Okla., while here during the holidays visiting his family, said the firm had a big contract ahead of them. The Dolese Bros. operated the stone crusher at Quarry siding, north of town, a few years ago.

Tomorrow, Friday, the 15th, it is thirty-eight years since Capt. Irvin Burton came to Marion. In that time the population of the community and county has been materially changed. He has seen the country settled and developed and is proud to have a part in it. Only a few of these old timers are with us.

Last Tuesday about everybody that could kill a rabbit on the run went out in the country to get a few for the Salvation Army at Kansas City. The Rock Island road agreed to furnish transportation.

Jensen Bros., produce dealers, shipped a car of eggs Monday to New York City.

Captain Northup from the Kansas City Salvation Army station was in town Wednesday soliciting funds and reports $45 from the general public including $2.60 from the money box at Marion National bank, $3.21 at the Marion State bank and $3.61 at the Bank of Commerce. He also reports about 400 rabbits turned over to him as the result of the hunt on Tuesday.

This is good weather to buy a warm blanket for your horse, or lap robe for yourself of John Thomason, the harness man.

We had another fire alarm on last Sunday, this time at the treating plant of the Rock Island. The fire was in the floor and portions of the timbers were charred, but the plant is reported uninjured.