110 years ago

aug. 19, 1915

If accidents of last Thursday had come a day later, on Friday the 13th, everyone would have known the reason why. The fiercest storm of the season came that day. It brought hail and a powerhouse explosion and fire. Some Methodist Episcopal Sunday School picnickers were drenched. The Thompson store’s glass front was blown in at a loss of about $100. And one section of the front window of J.R. Baker’s Secondhand Store was broken out.

Schmidt and Prosch, two young men from Kansas City, have opened an auto tire repairing shop in a room just east of the O’Bryant harness shop.

The Good Eat Café has been removed from the Forney Building to the Hereford Building next to the old post office location.

J.J. Roberts and family of the Durham neighborhood are moving to Marion, coming largely on account of the splendid school facilities here. Marion welcomes these excellent people. There is no better hometown in Kansas than Marion.

Workers erecting permanent road markers over the National Old Trails road are in the county this week putting up markers. This piece of road marking is easily the greatest thing of the kind being done in the country. One of these markers is erected at every turn in the road or where the traveler might possibly be confused as to the right road.

I.N. Updike brought with him from Wyoming one of the finest fossil specimens we have ever seen — the head of an animal encased in solid rock.