125 years ago

november 14, 1884

The Methodist ladies never grow weary in well doing. They have purchased two handsome hanging lamps for the parsonage, and have ordered a fine silver communion set for sacrament services, and the best of it all is they have plenty of money in their treasury to pay for these purchases.

Many Marion county farmers are complaining of the depredations of sportsmen. The law is plain. No man has a right to kill game upon any land without the owner’s consent. No “posting” is necessary, and is only resorted to as a matter of courteous warning. We hear especial complaints against trappers bagging quail by wholesale, and we think they should be made to stop the practice.

The lecture to-night at the Presbyterian church need not interfere with the oyster social at Mrs. S.F. Carter’s. Those who attend the lecture may, and we trust will, go and patronize the oyster supper after the lecture.

Mr. Wessler, our cigar manufacturer, has moved “up town,” and now occupies a prominent position on Marion street, in the building until recently occupied by Mrs. Perkins with her millinery store.

One of Mr. Hodge’s little boys fell off the high embankment at the school house the other day, and was bruised considerably, though not seriously. It is a dangerous place.

If any country ever got up any better weather than Kansas has been furnishing for some time, just mention what country it was, please.

Prof. Runyan is proving a valuable acquisition to Marion in more ways than one. He is enthusiastically in love with Kansas, and through the public prints, back east, and by personal pennings, he has already attracted quite a number thisward, and still there’s more to follow.

Mr. J.H. Hoch’s new black-smith shop, east of the Luta bridge, approaches completion, and the sound of his hammer will soon resound therefrom.