125 years ago

april 3, 1885

The Christians are preparing to erect a comfortable parsonage. We trust they will succeed in furnishing their excellent preacher, Eld. Foote, with a handsome and convenient home, free from debt.

The court house fence has been completed and painted. The county having set this excellent example we trust many of our citizens will “follow suit,” and fence their premises, only build a little straighter fence than the court house job.

Messrs. Mings & Clough, of Burlingame, have a lot of horses for sale, at Vanpelt & Andrew’s stable. They are fine gentlemen to deal with, and parties wishing to buy should call at once and see their stock, as they will remain but a few days longer.

Reuben Winters last Monday removed from the inside fleshy part of his horse’s leg, a walnut splinter about five inches in length, nearly an inch square at the larger end, tapering to about one-fourth of an inch. It had been imbedded there for several months, but strange to say, did not cause the horse any serious inconvenience.

We have not failed to notice though we have failed to localize the handsome new fence with which Mr. Buchanan has surrounded his elegant new residence property. There is no class of items that gives the RECORD more pleasure in mentioning than the erection of new fences in Marion. Our town needs more fences and we trust we shall have a veritable fence boom this season.

The board of Commissioners, whoever they were, who had that stone beat up and piled around the court house, ought to “chip in,” now, and have it removed, so that the grass could grow. What the object would have been in scattering it around there in the first place, we are unable to imagine, unless somebody was out of a job just then. Now that the premises are fenced, we would like to see the place cleaned up and adorned. It is right in the heart of the city, and ought to be worthy of the town and county, in this respect.

Lewis & Hoops have built a substantial wing wall at the west end of the stone arch bridge, to prevent high water from cutting way the bank above that structure.