100 years ago
MARCH 10, 1904 — E.W. Hoch, the editor of this paper, was nominated for Governor of Kansas, by acclamation last night at the Republican State convention held in Wichita.
The arrangements for the reception for E.W. Hoch and our distinguished guests are substantially as follows:
The reception will occur at the Elgin hotel, Friday evening, March 11th, at eight o'clock instead of seven o'clock as previously announced. It will be entirely non-partisan and largely informal, and everyone old and young is cordially invited. Music will be furnished by Sheldon's orchestra. Refreshments will be served by the ladies of the town and will be free to all. There will be short toast speeches by citizens of the town and by invited guests. Come everybody.
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The Baptist people have purchased a fine new piano for their church from Healea & Co.
About midnight Friday the hackmen coming from the Rock Island train discovered a fire in the rear part of Kieferle Brothers' hardware store. The alarm was promptly given and in a short time a sufficient force was on hand to manage the hose cart and water was soon turned on the fire which was put out without doing a great deal of damage. It was a narrow escape for the building and its contents as in there was five or six hundred gallons of oil in the part of the room where the fire was burning, some of the oil tanks becoming so heated as to melt the sodder around the caps on the tanks. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The Kieferles left the store about 10 o'clock that evening and are positive that no fire or light of any kind had been left in that part of the building that night.
Twenty young people gather at George Ehrlich's Saturday evening and spent a very enjoyable evening.
The next in the lyceum course will be a concert by the famous Schubert Symphony and Lady Quartette, March 16th. There are six people in the company, an the entertainment will doubtless be very fine. At the conclusion of the concert the local managers will sell tickets for next winter's course, and our people will doubtless respond with the usual liberality.
Jake Mattis met with a serious accident Sunday. While splitting kindling a piece flew up hitting him in the eye and seriously injuring it.
Healea Myers & Co. have just sold Mr. I.F. Talbott's fine bottom 240 acre farm at Oursler station to A.W. and B.T. Ford. Consideration $12,000.
A passing Santa Fe locomotive last Friday afternoon set fire to the straw pile within a few feet of Dr. Rogers' barn, and but for the timely presence of the hired man, would certainly have set the building on fire, as a strong wind was blowing from the south.
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Kieferle were greatly shocked to hear that Mrs. Kieferle had died suddenly at their home, three miles west of Elk, late Wednesday night, after only a few hours illness.
She had always enjoyed excellent health and one little thought but that she had many happy years before her. But she has been taken from her happy home, her little children, and the husband who loved her so well.
No family stands higher in the esteem of their neighbors than did Mr. and Mrs. Kieferle. They were noted for their devotion to each other, their peaceable ways, their industry and their prosperity.
It was a common remark among their friends that "Edith and Coony are such a happy pair, and so well suited to each other."
Mrs. Kieferle's home was a model of neatness and order, no duty was ever neglected, while she reared her children most carefully.
Her capacity for work was something remarkable and yet she was always calm and always found time for pleasure with her husband and children. Her cheerfulness and good nature were unbounded and unfailing.
She leaves three small children, Clyde, Frances and Lily, aged eight, six and five years.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1904 microfilm files of the Marion Record.)
