125 years ago

may 28, 1886

J.H. Squires, of Topeka, has deposited with the State Historical Society, the axe used by himself and comrades in the rebel prison at Millen, Ga., in 1864, accompanied with an interesting history of the axe.

The Y.M.C.Association in Marion should have a home of its own, and has been ‘figuring” on one for some time. Young men in every town should have such a place of resort, where fine literature and good music, and elevating pictures, and fragrant flowers, and refined society, and cheerful, Christian influence can successfully bid against the “attraction” of places where characters are destroyed. Let us have a Y.M.C.A. Hall in Marion. Here is fifty dollars for such a home.

Marion has a carpenter (and a good one), Mr. L.W. Folson, who says he is a relative of the young lady who is to marry President Cleveland. L.W. is a Republican, however, and we fear will stand a poor show of a cabinet position, or other office, even after he has been linked to the administration by this new tie.

The sound of Geo. F. Roberts’ fallen oven had hardly died away before W.G. Bates had tendered Mr. Roberts the use of his oven, nearly finished, as soon as it was ready for use. Of such is W.G.’s deserved popularity.

A Bad Case

Several ladies were severely injured a short distance north of town, last Saturday, by the criminal conduct, it is alleged, of an elderly and well-known man named Jonathan Weller. It seems that Mrs. Weller, who had had some domestic trouble, it appears, was coming to town with several other ladies and children in wagon. On the road they were overtaken by Mr. Weller, also in a wagon, and it is charged that he purposely “run into” the wagon bearing the ladies, upsetting it, dumping the occupants to the ground, breaking his wife’s arm, breaking another lady’s collar bone and arm, and breaking, also, the arm of a little girl. It is further said that the author of all this mischief drove on to town heedless of the cries and sufferings of the unfortunate females, and that a more humane farmer coming along, picked up the wounded and brought them to town. Mrs. Weller was formerly the widow Sampson, who kept a restaurant, last year, where Wessler now has his tobacco store, and was only married last winter to the man who is now wanted by the authorities to answer to the serious charge outlined in the above. We hope Mr. Weller will be able to clear up this matter.

Uncle Will Billings has about finished a comfortable new dwelling in his addition, and will go right on and erect three others just like it. Sixteen new residences, good ones, too, have been erected in the addition since it was “laid off” a year ago.

The first strawberry and ice cream festival of the season, given in the Rink last Friday night by the Methodist ladies, was a grand success numerically, socially, gastronomically, and financially.