100 years ago
MARCH 3, 1904 — W.K. Palmer, superintendent of the county poor farm, in his annual report to the Board of County Commissioners, shows that the total receipts for the year 1903 were $1916.24 and the expenses, $1462.63 leaving a balance of $458.61. The live stock on hand is worth $1309 and the value of the farm implements is $114.50 and of the household goods $610. A new ice house was built during the year and it is filled with fine ice. The crops during the year were 150 bushels of oats, 150 bushels of wheat, 15 bushels potatoes, 15 tons alfalfa, 40 tons cane and straw. The farm and everything connected with it is kept in excellent order and reflect great credit on the managerial ability of Supt. Palmer. Marion county is fortunate in having so valuable a man in such a trying position as superintendent of the poor farm.
Marriage licenses issued this month were: Victor S. Hodgin, Pratt, 28, and Ruth P. Steuart, Peabody, 18; Lawrence Keazer, Marion, 26, and Florence Davis, Marion, 19; Walter D. Coleman, Lost Springs, 20, and Annie G. Lewis, Ramona, 20; Peter B. Funk, Hillsboro, 20, and Mary Remple, Hillsboro, 19.
Judge J.T. Dickerson has bought the Young block, one of the finest business buildings in the city. Consideration $10,000. We understand that he contemplates making some radical improvements in the stairways to the second and third stories.
The boys composing the Archeological Society (seven in number, all under sixteen years of age) gave the first public exhibition of their collection of Indian relics last Saturday. They have rented a room over Ekeler's restaurant where they have their collection handsomely labeled and displayed. The collection includes six or seven hundred specimens of Indian relics, chiefly found around Marion. It is certainly a fine collection and the boys deserve great credit for the industry with which they have made this collection, and the intelligence and taste they have displayed in arranging them for public exhibition. They charged five cents admission to their museum, and nearly two hundred people paid the price during the day, and every one was pleased with what they saw. We understand the exhibition will open to the public again next Saturday. Go and see it.
31 Years Ago
Items from the Record files, Feb. 22nd 1973
The proposed change of County lines to the extent of annexing Walton township to Harvey county is creating considerable excitement. Both sides of the question have strong advocates.
This place is to be the terminus of two new mail routes, bids for both of which have been put in by parties from this place. One is from Abilene to this place and back once a week. The other from Roxbury and back once a week.
Peabody is going to have a newspaper; none of your patent outsides, but patent all over. It will be wholly printed in Atchison.
There will be a meeting of the citizens of Center township on the evening of March 8th at 7 o'clock for the purpose of taking into consideration the importance of prospecting for coal, as we deem it of great interest, and if discovered will be the means above all other, in fact it will be the best means for the upbuilding of our town and county. We want all to come out as the meeting will be of great interest. Come and be prompt to the hour.
J.M. Young intends erecting a business house on Main street this spring.
Mr. Frazier of the Fuller house, is building a nice picket fence around the hotel lots.
H.H. Lehmann and Mary A. Hodges were married at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Hodges, their pastor, Rev. Wright, officiating. They will go to housekeeping on sec. 5 where the groom has prepared a home. Both are Kansas to the manor born. At about midnight after their wedding, they were treated to the usual charivari, which made the night hideous for awhile.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1904 microfilm files of the Marion Record.)
