125 years ago

january 29, 1886

We are so often asked how our new Baltimore heater has satisfied us, this winter, that we wish to “lump” a reply to all interested, and say that it has more than met our expectations. No greater test could well be made of it than has been made during the past month, and yet it has sustained its splendid reputation in every particular. The family sitting room, nearly sixteen feet square with bay window and six other openings, has been kept perfectly comfortable, while two bedrooms have also been comfortably warmed by it, and we think the third bedroom might have been, had we so desired. Yet even the coldest and windiest days it consumed only about three scuttles of hard coal in twenty-four hours, while ordinarily it required but two. Yes, with a good chimney and a reasonable demand upon it, we can confidently say the Baltimore heater (advertised in the Record) will give great satisfaction.

Our tonsorial friend James McCain has been “laid up” nearly ever since the fire with cold contracted at that time.

Preliminary steps were taken at the public meeting last Saturday night to organize a Board of Trade in Marion. A committee was appointed to mature the matter and to report at the adjourned meeting one week from tomorrow night at the same place—Doster & Bogle’s office. A wisely managed Board of Trade may exert a powerful influence in the town’s upbuilding.

“Sliding down hill” has had a big “run”’ in Marion for a number of weeks and the schoolhouse hill has been daily and nightly thronged with school folks with all kinds and sizes of sleds. But, the fun was marred the other day by an accident that nearly cost a little son of Mr. Maxwell his life.

Hon. J.W. Moore, of Durham Park, managed to reach the hub Tuesday, through the snowdrifts.

Marion is bound to keep at the head of the procession in local sensations. The town has been enlivened the past week with the general and promiscuous discussion of a novel lawsuit. Mr. W.C. Lockwood, late Captain of the late Blaine and Logan Club instituted individual suit last week against about seventy members of that defunct organization for the recovery of $169 advanced by him in the fall of 1884 for the purchase of campaign suits, torches, etc., for the club.

Shooting match for turkeys one-half mile southwest of Marion on Saturday, February 8. Bring your shotguns. Come one, come all, and get the turkeys for little price. Will Harrison