100 years ago

march 25, 1909

Nightly Meetings

Nightly meetings of the City Council have been almost regular. It’s one continued round of pleasure. It isn’t always a continual round of pleasure to serve on the city council. It’s up late most every night, hearing petitions for a sewer district or else a strenuous objection from the people who think differently about this question; trying to keep the fish ponds off Main Street until everybody gets ready for paving; getting the electric light and waterworks propositions started; building sidewalks and street crossings; and then for recreation try to build a walk and retaining wall from the stone arch bridge past the park to the Baptist church and have to “back up” because of the expense. Some of the councilmen are looking forward with pleasure to the expiration of their term and others with longing.

A.H.T.A. Grows Steadily

Last Monday evening at the regular meeting of the Anti-Horse Thief Association, the following were initiated: Roy Summers, Harry Clubine, Conrad Hett, Frank Kasper and Harry Hett. There are a number to be initiated that could not be present Monday night. Every reliable citizen should be a member. It is of special interest to every stock raiser and property owner to have a membership and when the order has had an opportunity to increase its membership to the figure in the minds of the executive committee, it will be impossible for the thieving going on around here to continue.

The Egg Arrived

After waiting nearly a year to hear from an egg upon which he had written his name in hope that some fair damsel, somewhere, sometime, might find it and reply, Sam Keefer last week heard from a party in Maine who had purchased and devoured the Kansas hen fruit. Sam picked an egg from a case last April, wrote his name and address and request for reply on the shell. The egg with others went in a shipment to cold storage in Chicago. It seems in February this particular egg was sold for fresh country eggs to a hungry man down in Maine. He answered the writing on the shell and wrote an interesting letter. No wonder the East is conservative. There’s nothing radical in a people who will eat eggs a year old and there never will be.—Council Grove Guard.

Last week’s Hutchinson News gave an account of a bicycle theft which affected two Marion boys, P.N. Good and Wallace Magathan. The latter is attending business school at Hutchinson while the former is following painting and decorating. The bicycle thief did his work cleverly but was caught after the boys had been without their wheels a few days.

Wednesday afternoon Mrs. S.F. Sacket purchased the W.A. Blanchard residence, corner of Locust and Lawrence streets, and they will give possession April 1. Mr. Blanchard will occupy the Alex Case property until their plans for the future are arranged.

There are six pupils in District 39 who received large diplomas this year for being neither absent nor tardy: Clara Duncan, Grace Mehl, Fay Selvy, Flossie Selvy, Bessie and Eliza Mehl.

There is a demand in Marion right now for room and board for students soon to be in Marion—many of them will be here Monday, March 29th—who will attend the teacher’s review course. If you can accommodate one or more, go at once to the phone and notify Prof. C.E. St. John and Prof. J.A. Ray and they will very much appreciate it.

Miss Marie Wharton entertained her Sunday school class last Saturday from ten to four o’clock. The class is comprised of eight little girls, Mary Sacket, Gertrude Bryan, Ruth Bates, Rachel Woolheater, Jennie Chapman, Lucile Corby, Mary Schafer and Mabel Woyame.

As Ed Coffin was chopping kindling Friday morning, a small sliver struck him in his left eye, point first, near the pupil. Although quite painful, it will not permanently damage the eye.

J.W. Garrison closed a deal last Friday for the Mathews property in the south part of town near the creamery building, now the alfalfa mill. The Garrison sale will be held Friday and we understand they will come to Marion soon after.