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JANUARY 3, 1902 — Mr. and Mrs. N.A. Palmer celebrated their tenth anniversary at their elegant home south of Aulne, Tuesday evening, Dec. 30. About sixty-five of their relatives and friends gathered in to spend the evening with the happy couple, leaving as a token of their esteem for Mr. and Mrs. Palmer tinware of every description imaginable.
The guests were entertained with songs, speaking, music on violins, guitar and gramophone.
At a late hour the guests sat down to an elegant supper. After supper Rev. Severens united Mr. and Mrs. Palmer in marriage for a second time, and in a moment of merriment got Mr. Palmer to promise to obey Mrs. Palmer for forty years.
After congratulating Mr. and Mrs. Palmer and family the guests departed to their homes.
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The Marion Band will give a short concert, followed by an entertainment, consisting of songs, etc., ending with a laughable farce, to raise money to pay on new uniforms, at Roger's Opera House, Wednesday, Jan. 8. See small bills for further particulars.
Miss Minnie Williams, who is conducting a dress cutting school in Ponca, Oklahoma, has been home during the holidays. She is greatly pleased with her location and business. She doesn't like saloons, however, of which there are twenty in a town just a little larger than Marion. She says one can almost get drunk some days, from the breath of the old topers who walk the streets.
Mr. August Engel, of Lincolnville, held the lucky number in Bauer & Kerns premium doll drawing — and got the beautiful five dollar doll.
A delightful progressive party was given by Misses Anna Hoch and Lizzie Bryan New Year's evening. The company first spent an hour or two at the home of the former young lady and then repaired, or perhaps we should say progressed, to the house of the latter. At each place refreshments were served, and literary and social entertainment made the hours fly rapidly. The following young ladies and young gentleman enjoyed the dual affair greatly: Daisy Neil, Topeka; Miss Hess, Peabody; Angie Mansfield, Ethel Dean, Harriet Sterling, Ruth Keller, Myrtle Ainsworth, Ina Harold, Elizabeth Lindsay, Libbie Powers, Rose Budd, Maud Richards, Mabel Brumbaugh, Mary Watson, Mr. Frank Funk, Webb City, Mo., Mr. Z.B. Erwin, Topeka; David Starling, Paul Talbot, Clarence Waring, Taylor Riddle, Charlie Bryan, Willie Harold, Roy Myers, Ed Hauser, Horace Waring, Walter Corby, Ralph Bryan, and Ralph Powers.
Colonel Thomas Jefferson Smith came up from Oklahoma, Monday, and went on to Topeka to get acquainted with his wife.
Gregory Hansen, a young man about twenty years of age, son of Mr. Sam Hansen, who lives south of Doyle creek, committed suicide last Monday night, near his father's home. He was a young man given to periods of uncontrollable passion, during which he would threaten the family. In one of these spasms of anger he went out and shot himself through the heart, killing himself instantly. Coroner Riegel went down, but the facts were too apparent to demand a formal inquest.
Prof. Hall was judge of a literary in Herington last week — and escaped.
The death of Abram Hunter, a former resident of Marion, occurred at his residence, 2517 Semple Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., on Friday evening, Nov. 8, 1901. Mr. Hunter came to Marion in 1871 and settled on a homestead nine miles west of town, and for twenty years was a respected citizen of our county. He was quiet and unobtrusive in manner, but was a man always to be found using his influence on the right side of every question pertaining to the moral welfare of the community. He was born March 8, 1838, near West Ely, Mo., and grew to young manhood in the vicinity, thence removing to Adams county, Illinois, where on Aug. 30, 1860, he married Elizabeth C. Holcomb, who bore him eleven children, ten of whom are living. When the civil war broke out he enlisted in Company K, Seventh Missouri Cavalry, and served three years in defense of the Union. The funeral service was held on Sunday, Nov. 10, the interment being in the National cemetery at Fort Benton. He still lives in the memory of his family as a kind and indulgent husband and father.
Mr. Will Shanklin has gone to Oklahoma to live on his new claim. He left yesterday. His carpenter brother, Finley, went with him to erect a house for him.
Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1902 microfilm files of the Marion Record.
