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JANUARY 10, 1902 — The Marion Women's Christian Temperance Union has rented the store room adjoining Robinson's meat market, and are fitting it up for permanent headquarters for the Union. They expect to furnish it cozily, and hold their regular meetings there. They also expect to keep it open daily as a Rest Room for country ladies — a place where ladies from the country can feel at home. Any one wishing to contribute easy chairs, pictures, good books, magazines, or other things with which to adorn and make attractive the room are urged to do so. These good women believe that Marion needs such a resort as this, and the RECORD is heartily of the same opinion. Let Marion rally to the support of this good movement and make these good women feel that their unselfish and splendid efforts are appreciated.
Mrs. Wm. Bradbury won the elegant music box at Porter's store, on ticket No. 362.
Invitations are out announcing the approaching marriage of Miss Annie Urbanek to Mr. Frank T. Pecinovsky, which is to occur at the Catholic church in Clear Creek township next Tuesday morning. The bride-to-be is a beautiful Bohemian girl, who has lived with several families in Marion and is well known here. She is an excellent young lady, and we understand her husband-to-be is an excellent young man.
Mr. Eli Good slipped and fell at his home Monday, falling with such violence as to render him unconscious for a while. And Mr. Good is a thorough temperance man, too.
Lost — at or near the Evangelical church, Christmas night, a button with a picture of Mrs. S.E. Richardson and her two grandchildren on it. The owner would be thankful if the finder would notify him or leave it at S.E. Richardson's place, two miles east of Canada.
A new ladies' Club was organized at the residence of Mrs. A.E. Case, Tuesday afternoon. Temporary officers were elected, with Miss Dena Utting as President and Miss Edith Keller as Secretary. The organization is to be perfected next Tuesday, when permanent officers will be elected, and name, rules, etc., adopted. In addition to the regular literary work of the Club, these ladies will make a specialty of establishing and maintaining a reading room. They have joined with the W.C.T.U. ladies in renting the room on Main street referred to elsewhere in today's RECORD, where the reading room will be opened, and which will also be the Club's regular place of meeting.
Misses Mary and Carrie Watson returned to the Leavenworth Catholic school, last Sunday. Miss Virgie Donaldson and Miss Mary Palmer accompanied them and will also attend that school.
The many friends of Mr. John Baker, of Peabody, were greatly shocked to learn of the awful accident which befell his promising young son, Thomas, last Saturday, a boy fourteen or fifteen years of age. In company with Lee Bauslin, an older boy, Tom was hunting on his father's farm. In putting his gun into the buggy one of the guns, a shot gun, was discharged, entering the boy's side inflicting an awful ugly and dangerous wound, but at last accounts there were hopes of the boy's recovery.
Mr. Edward P. Moxey, of Philadelphia, an expert government accountant, and a very pleasant gentleman, was a caller last Saturday, in company with our honored fellow citizen District Attorney Dean.
County Health Officer, Dr. Marner, to whom physicians and others are required by law to report births, deaths, contagious diseases, etc., says it is next to impossible to get then to do it. But from the imperfect statistics furnished him we learn that there were sixty-seven deaths in Marion county, last year, and one hundred and ninety-three births.
People have had their doors standing open nearly every day this week. Talk about your California climate!
Another old soldier has crossed the pontoon of death and will respond to roll call hereafter upon the eternal camping ground. Mr. J.M. Dingman died at his home in this city Tuesday morning. Mr. Dingman fell from a house he was shingling several weeks ago and received severe injuries, which with heart complications caused his death. The deceased was born in Canada fifty-six years ago last October. Mr. Dingman came to Kansas in 1889. He made his home at Peabody, in this county, where he lived until three years ago, when he moved to Marion. Since that time Marion has been his home until the day of his departure. Mr. Dingman was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. During the Civil War he served for a period of three years, in Company A, 64th Regiment of Illinois. He has answered the last call. He has joined the innumerable army. He rests from his labors. May he rest in peace. The funeral service was held at the home on Wednesday, Jan. 8, and was conducted by Rev. J.A. Kjellin, pastor of the Baptist church. The coffin was wrapped in the stars and stripes and the old flag was also carried in the procession to the grave.
Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1902 microfilm files of the Marion Record.
