100 years ago
JUNE 19, 1903
Prof. Will Matlock, of Oklahoma University faculty, has been here this week visiting his brother Tom. We always reflect and refer with pride to the fact that Will Matlock was once the RECORD'S "devil" and was a faithful employee of this office for several years Since then he has completed collegiate studies, traveled several years in Europe, working his way, filled several important pulpits, and held a chair for three years in Oklahoma's greatest school. Haven't we a right to be proud of a RECORD boy like that?
To the citizens of Marion:
This department and the good citizens are doing everything they can to clean up Marion and make it a pleasant place to live it. I have a few suggestions. So many people in mowing their lawns and cleaning up their premises dump all the refuse into the gutters and streets. This make a bad matter worse. It is impossible to have men in all parts of the town picking up paper and grass. If each one would kindly remember that it is not only a violation of an ordinance but a violation of the ordinary rules of good conduct to throw their refuse into the public streets and gutters, it will help make Marion a better looking city and will greatly assist the authorities.
Yours truly,
J.H. ADKINS,
Street Commissioner
The young people of Clark and Wren schools are having a picnic today in Henry Wight's grove, near Antelope.
Mrs. W.H. McHenry, of Wilson, entertained a party of ladies in honor of her daughter, Mrs. Frank Burkholder, of Rich Hill, Mo. The morning was pleasantly spent recalling "happenings" of earlier days. At noon a banquet was spread, to which no poor words of ours can do justice. However, no description is needed, as the culinary skill as well as the hospitality of good "Aunt Pattie" and her accomplished daughters is well known. In the afternoon we assembled on the shaded porch and at the request of "Uncle William" Miss Vera Harrison brought her guitar and sang many songs of the sunny southland — the former home of our beloved host and hostess — filling their hearts with tender memories and dimming their eyes with tears. In conclusion, we all joined in singing "Marching Through Georgia," led on by "Uncle William" with a vigor and a kindling eye that plainly revealed the fact that the sacrifice he made for his country had been freely, ungrudgingly given. Looking at the aging soldier, whose helpless limbs gave token that his "marching" days were over, we reflected that his brave, merry attitude, despite his enforced seclusion and great suffering, was an influence that would go on "marching" down the years, leaving its ennobling impress on another generation. The remaining time was spent in delightful social converse. When the sun sank low in the west we reluctantly said "goodbye." The following ladies were present: Mrs. W.H. McHenry, Mrs. Frank Burkholder, Rich Hill, Mo., Mrs. Chas. Templeton, Lost Springs, Mrs. Gertie Wright, Mrs. R.S. Claney, Mrs. J.W. Harrison, Miss Vera Harrison, Mrs. Henry Sallee, Mrs. Alice Suffield, Miss Etta Suffield, Mrs. Rachel Clark, and Mrs. Sadie Shipley.
D. Lewis celebrated his "majority" Thursday of last week, and his father, Major Fred Lewis, turned over to him the right and title to all the cement sidewalk business he (the father) had to confer. Dave Lucas did a like favor for his son Fred, and these two young men solicit your sidewalk jobs.
It is about time to call off that musty old yarn about some old Indian having said to somebody sometime in the remote past that the water had been from "bluff to bluff" here. That old yarn has been told in Topeka and every valley town in the State, and it's about time to label the old yarn "no good," and put it away with other musty legends that have come down to us from poor Lo.
Born to the wife of Mr. William Schoneman, a son, Dr. Marner attending.
From the 31 Years Ago column dated June 22, 1872 —
"We have no barber, tailor, or photograph artist in Marion Centre.
"Wheat is ready to cut and corn is tasseling out.
"Large numbers of antelope are grazing in the western part of the county.
"We all remember the great destruction of property and inconvenience experienced last season by prairie fires. Now let every farmer while the ground is in condition to break prepare to protect himself and his property from the ravages of such fires by breaking a few furrows a convenient distance apart and burning the grass between them as soon as the grass gets dry enough to burn."
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At the regular meeting of the Altruistic Club Tuesday afternoon, the following officers were elected for the ensuing club year: Mrs. E.W. Hoch, president; Mrs. Ralph Hodge, vice president; Mrs. John H. Smith, recording secretary; Mrs. F.J. Funk, corresponding secretary; Mrs. H.J. Buschlen, treasurer. Owing to the lack of funds, the opening of the library rooms was discontinued in the evening, but patrons of the library will be served every afternoon by Miss Effie Harrison who attends the Rest Room in the afternoon.
The Badger Lumber Co. people are erecting a large coal house near the Santa Fe depot.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1903 microfilm files of the Marion Record)
