100 years ago
AUGUST 29, 1902 — Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dickerson celebrated their golden wedding at their farm home four miles south of Marion last Tuesday evening. Thomas Dickerson and Hannah Harrison were united in holy wedlock in Harrison county, Ohio. For fifty years they have walked hand in hand, a loving, happy couple, in spite of the hardships which have been theirs. They are yet young in heart and well preserved in body. Their seventy years sit lightly upon them. All their living children were with them Tuesday, including John F., Mrs. L.F. Keller, Mrs. E.W. Hoch, Joseph T., Mrs. Prof. B.C. Hastings of Butte, Montana, Mrs. E.M. Rider of El Dorado, and Avery H. In addition to these seven children there were nineteen grandchildren present. The sons-in-law and other relatives and friends increased the company to over sixty people. And a jolly company it was. The golden presents were many. The feasting extended into the middle of the afternoon, and still the provisions were not exhausted. The young ones present treated the couple to an old-fashioned charivari, and would not desist till they had a speech from the groom! Two fine group photographs of the company were taken by photographer Coons.
Miss Irma Doster left last Tuesday for Topeka. She expects to study music in New York City the coming winter.
The Marion Driving Club will give a matinee Sept. 9 at two o'clock p.m. The following horses will contest: Jester F., C.H. Thompson, Brainerd; Joe Younger, Howard Truax, Peabody; Big Kate, C.J. Thompson, Peabody; Fine driving horse, Will Snyder, Peabody; Geo. Mason, Lee Wymer, Peabody; Silverthorne colt, Lee Wymer; Wilka Gammon, V.E. Healea, Marion; County Robert, R.J. Baker, Marion; Clay Wilks, R.J. Baker; Jocey Young, Harry McFadden, Marion; Karnival, R. Williams, Marion; Karnival Queen, R. Williams; Silverthorne mare, W.C. Wible, Marion. Other attractions: Quick hitch race, half mile. A small admission fee will be charged for the purpose of keeping the track in repair. Marion Band will furnish plenty of good music.
Miss Eva Ehrlich, cashier in Ehrlich's store, has been visiting this week at Abilene.
About one hundred and fifty people, accompanied by the Marion Band, went over to Peabody to attend the Republican rally Monday evening. Let's see. Did we read something in the Peabody Gazette recently to the effect that Marion people never attend "doins" at Peabody. Perhaps not. Perhaps our memory deceives us.
In the ball game last Monday between the school teachers and the school officers, the pedagogues batted and caught their way to victory by a score of 8 to 7. George Noce was captain of the victorious team, and Lafe Adams was at the head of the team that went down to defeat. In view of the fact that the teachers sustain rather delicate business relations with the school officers, it is understood that they are conservatively modest in glorying over the vanquished.
Mr. A. Wilkinson, who has been running a laundry on West Main street, has closed out his business and gone to Canton, where he will engage in the hotel business.
Manley Wareham, formerly of Marion, but now of Wichita, came in Tuesday evening from the east in a locomobile. He had started on an overland trip to Ottawa, but on account of the heavy rains had to abandon his machine at Elmdale and make the rest of the journey by rail. He was on his return trip when he stopped over here.
Work on the new Santa Fe depot has resumed this week, and the building is expected to be ready for occupancy in a short time.
The first annual event of the Kansas State Exposition Company will be held at the Topeka State Fair Grounds, September 8-13, 1902. The attractions this year will consist of a State Fine Stock Show, State race meeting, one of the grand circuit of Western State Fairs. In addition to the livestock display there will be held Topeka Karnival of Fall Festivities, which include a high class and attractive vaudeville performance every night on the fair grounds. The combination of races, fine stock show and amusement features will constitute the greatest attractive event held at Topeka for many years. All railroads have granted an open excursion half rate for the entire week. For details regarding any features of the fall attractions, address O.P. Updegraff, Secretary of the Kansas State Exposition Company, Topeka, Kans.
Mrs. Geo. Town, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Jenkins, left last Monday for Chicago, where she lives with her son Carl. Her other son, George, is publishing a daily paper at Skagway, Alaska. The father rests in Highland Cemetery.
Noticed in the "Latest Kansas Events" — In Franklin county a boy of 19 recently married a woman of 49. This woman had a grown up son and at about the same time this son also married. Now the son is father of a child and the Ottawa papers are presenting the stepfather as a record-breaker — as a man who became a grandfather before he could vote. — Kansas City Journal.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1902 microfilm files of the Marion Record)
