100 years ago
FEBRUARY 11, 1904 — The new acetylene lights have been put into the M.E. church as was arranged for some two of three weeks ago. They will be used Sunday night for the first time and the good pastor would like every member of the church to be present and join in the jubilee. Visitors will also be made welcome.
If the finder of that five dollar bill will come into this office, we will tell him who lost it.
The Florence depot burned to the ground last Saturday about noon. It caught, it is said, from a spark from a passing engine. The Santa Fe has long needed a better depot at Florence and will now erect a creditable structure. The RECORD would like to suggest that it be of brick or stone, surrounded with a brick sidewalk instead of the old rickety wooden walks it has had there.
W.O. Hannaford, we understand, has also entered the race for the nomination for the office of District Clerk.
How time flies! Those of us who remember the Demoneys can scarcely realize that it has been sixteen or seventeen years since they left here. And we remember little Ed, who used to run the streets barefooted most of the time and with a not overly clean face all the time. Well, Ed was in town the other day, and he has grown into a fine-looking, gentlemanly young man. He is traveling for a Kansas City wholesale furniture house, and we are glad to learn is doing well. His father is now living on a farm up in Dickinson county, having moved there from Kansas City about six months ago.
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The following explains itself:
W.W. Loveless
Sir: — I took a pair of gloves about nine years ago, the gloves were marked 65 cents. So I will mail you 65 cents in stamps. Hoping you will believe me when I say I am sorry I did so.
Yours Respectfully,
Unknown
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A Few Words and Facts From Schaeffler's Big Corner Store at Hillsboro. Kansas
Should we attempt to give a full history of his business, we would take up an entire page of this paper. So we content ourselves with a brief statement.
This store was started in 1886 with a stock of scarcely $200 consisting of groceries, candles, cigars and a lunch room in connection. It was Mr. Schaeffler's aim from the very start to treat his customers honestly and to give them good values. Steadily his business grew, his customers appreciated his effort to please them. His business grew steadily until in 1892. He was obliged to seek larger quarters, which he soon found by purchasing the old brick store of Shultz Bros. on the corner opposite the Hillsboro Bank. In the course of a year he added an entire line of General Merchandise to his business, until his stock gradually grew to $12,000, and again his room became too small and in June, 1903, he started the present new brick corner store, which was completed January 1st., 1904, at the expense of thousands of dollars. It has a ground capacity of 7,000 square feet. It has 76 lineal feet of fine show windows. The size of the entire building is 50x125 feet.
The store is equipped with all the latest improvements, such as steam heat, lighting plant, elevators, cash carriers, all the latest fixtures such as counter, glass floor cases. Also ladies' and men's toilet rooms — everything modern and just such a store as the good people of Hillsboro and vicinity like to trade in. Their stock of goods is strictly up to date and their prices are right. When in Hillsboro go and see the store which has grown from a stock of $200 to one of $20,000.
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Items from the Record Files 31 Years Ago, February 8th, 1873.
Bower & Coble have been filling up their shelves with fresh groceries, which they will sell as cheap as any one can.
T.M. Potter has gone to Michigan on a visit and expects to be gone about two weeks.
The Fuller House is gaining great popularity under the management of Mr. Grazer.
Prints, delaines, brown and bleached muslins, woolens and yarns of all colors and grades to be sold low at the everything store of J.H. Costello.
Burlingame Coal at $9 per ton at Battey Bros.
COUNTY OFFICERS — G.W. Camp, David Lucas, and S.C. Locklin, Commissioners; T.W. Bown, County Clerk; S.H. Grimes, County Treasurer; J.H. Costello, Clerk of District Court; I.W. Bouse, Probate Judge; E.A. Hodge, Register of Deeds; Mrs. C.S. Sharon, Superintendent of Public Instruction; S.T. Howe, Sheriff; Dr. W.W. Root, Coroner; J.D. Milliken, County Surveyor; L.F. Keller, County Attorney; J.O. Gaver, Justice of the Peace for Marion county.
MAILS — Florence arrives daily at 1 p.m., departs daily at 8 a.m. Council Grove arrives Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 6 p.m. and departs Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 7 a.m. Junction City arrives Tuesdays at 3 p.m. and departs Wednesdays at 10 a.m. Office hours from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Frank Bower, Postmaster.
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Messrs. Olsen have had to import a hired man, Newt Madsen, from Hartford, Conn. Men must be scarce in our parts when we have to go all the way to Connecticut after them.
Mrs. Orin Wymer, of Abilene, came down to see her father, W.H. Roberts. W.H. is slowly improving.
Mr. Clem Cherrington's Sabbath school class will have the exchange at the Rest Room next Saturday. Buy your Sunday provisions there.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1904 microfilm files of the Marion Record.)
