125 years ago

september 25. 1885

Marion is usually a very peaceable, orderly town, or has been since prohibition came in vogue, but the devil will break out every now and then, and he seems to have gotten loose about midnight, last Saturday night, or at least turned some of his imps loose upon the town. Residents of the valley portion of the town complain of being kept awake for an hour or two by hooting, howling, and firing of pistols. This is what the “boys” call “having a good time,” and there must be lots of fun in acting the idiot in this way. Wonder how much brains a fellow’s head has in it, anyhow, who hasn’t any more sense than to make that kind of fool of himself?

Work has commenced on the big three-story stone hotel, in Marion. The building is to be erected on the corner of Third and Santa Fe streets. Material is rapidly accumulating on the ground, and the work is to be pushed forward as fast as possible.

The Youngtown and Perry Sabbath schools, of Grant township, will hold a picnic in Powell’s grove, near Dody schoolhouse, about seven miles east of Marion, tomorrow (Saturday).

Mr. Sharp, Sr. was dumped out of a wagon Tuesday by a pair of mules running away on Lincoln Avenue. The old gentleman was rendered insensible for a little while, but soon recovered.

A plucky Hoosier girl, who has been charmed by Kansas, has bought Geo. Kamerzell’s eighty-acre farm, five miles northeast of Marion, paying one thousand dollars there for. We haven’t learned her name. Mr. A. Jacobitz had the honor of being the medium for the transfer of this property, and is also fortunate, being a young man, in having some land adjoin the fair damsel’s purchase

Mr. J.H. Buchanan will open a large general stock of goods in the new town of Canada, about the first of next month. It will be in charge, we understand, of Mr. Ed Coles, of this city, and Mr. Henry Wismer, of Canada—two as worthy and reliable gentlemen as could be found to conduct the business. We need not assure the people of that community that Mr. Buchanan is a gentleman they can “tie to,” in every particular.

Mr. Levi Sampson fell from his wagon last Friday, and dislocated his knee, but was hobbling around next day and new seems to be all right.

J.R. Westbrook, of Wilson township, brought us some fine Greenback apples the other day and some nice Democratic apples, the gift of his excellent wife who is a Democrat. He said he would have brought us some peaches, but like those recently brought us by friend Remer, they were Republican peaches and were corrupt so he wouldn’t bring them.