125 years ag0

september 4, 1885

Marion was almost deserted yesterday, and we suppose will be today, nearly everybody attending the Fair at Peabody. Marion has certainly contributed its full share to the success of the Fair.

Mr. W.R. Clark has just completed a fine barn on this Luta valley farm, 36x50. Mr. Belton of the same fertile valley, has had for some time a barn about that size, but is about to double its capacity. “In fact,” said our informant, “that section of the county is noted for its big barns.”

That Marion appreciates its Band has been well attested, the past week or so, in a subscription of several hundred dollars, to purchase new silver horns for the boys. We understand the Band will also uniform itself soon, and then won’t we be proud of the boss Band of the State!

We have been forcibly reminded this week of the approach of winter, by the numerous big dray loads of stoves that have passed up the street bound for Siebert & Co.’s store. Now’s the time to buy—when you can have your choice.

Mr. Stanforth, proprietor of the Square Hotel, has exhibited his enterprise in various ways, the past year, and this week he has displayed a new evidence of his public spirit, in a fine new omnibus with which he conveys passengers to and from the depot. The vehicle is a splendid specimen of Marion’s mechanical skill. The iron and wood work was done by Messrs. Clark & Worley, who may justly be proud of the splendid job. The painting and trimmings, which are especially fine, reflect great credit upon Mr. Frank Single who did this part of the work. The whole job is one of which the town, as well as the builders and owner, may be pardonably proud. Mr. Stanforth will serve the general public as well as patrons of his hotel for a nominal sum with this vehicle.

Mr. Steven Shipley, of Wilson township, has raised a pumpkin this year that measured six feet and seven inches in circumference. Any other township or county or state that thinks it can beat that can proceed to remark.

Mr. Wilson advertises in today’s RECORD, several hundred bushels of regular old Kentucky Blue-grass seed for sale. We believe blue-grass seed has come to Kansas to stay, and if you believe so too, you had better interview Mr. Wilson.

As an evidence that Marion and Burns are both booming, we submit the significant fact that six bills of lumber were sold Tuesday by the Chicago Lumber Company of this city to parties in Burns. They were good-sized bills, too, one of them being for the erection of a town hall.

Dr. Flippin was in our office last Saturday and gave us a harvest of items. Phillip Pets, a German living in Durham Park township, had two fingers cut off and one other badly damaged in a mowing machine. Peter Gosen, of Lehigh, exploded a cartridge while hunting prairie chickens, against the law, part of the shell passing through the chin coming out at back of the neck. Jacob Shirtner’s little boy, while playing with a corn-sheller, had one finger cut off and another nearly ruined. It was not a very good week for accidents.