100 years ago
A quiet wedding at the Presbyterian parsonage, Sunday evening, Rev. Caughey officiating, united Mr. Ernest Finley and Miss Maude McClary, both of this place. Maude is one of our girls, having been an employee of this office for some time, and was always an industrious, good natured girl, and will make a splendid helpmate for the young man who we believe is worthy of this prize he has won. May no cloud ever obscure the horizon of their happiness, and a life of health and prosperity be their lot, is the wish of the RECORD.
City Council Notes
Mayor and seven members present.
A committee of three was appointed to investigate the condition of the water works plant, with a view of the city considering the proposition of purchasing the system.
The city attorney was instructed to take such steps as are necessary to compel the Rock Island Company to put in drain pipes under its track in the northwest part of town so as to carry off the water that accumulates in that section after every hard rain.
Rosse Case's proposition to furnish the city a plat of the level from Chingawasa Springs to the city, without any expense, except that of a helper, was accepted.
The city attorney and marshal were instructed to enforce the barb wire ordinance.
A warrant for $1500 was ordered issued to the contractors on an estimate that $2500 worth of work had been done on the system.
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The entire force of the Thompson Dry Goods Company has been as busy as bees, this week, moving the stock of goods into the new quarters, the Dean building, just completed. This building, the finest in the city, was built by U.S. District Attorney J.S. Dean especially for the Thompson Dry Goods Company, and no expense has been spared to make it one of the most complete quarters for a department store that can be found in the State. The entire building is heated by steam and piped for both gasoline and acetylene gas. Large, magnificent show windows are on either side of the vestibuled entrance and also on the west side. The store room is finished in hard pine oil; beautifully railed balconies at the north and south ends, reached by easy stairways that are a gem of carpenter work, give additional room for the display of goods. Cloaks and toilet rooms for both ladies and gentlemen and every convenience necessary for the comfort of employees and patrons has been added.
A flock of wild geese passed over us, going north, last Sunday — no unusual occurrence at this time of year. And yet when we stop to reflect, a very wonderful thing it is, too. There seems to us nothing more wonderful in nature than bird instinct. During the intensely cold weather some three weeks ago when the thermometer registered at over twenty degrees below all day long, we looked out of our window at our neighbor's snow covered roof, and there on the top of the warm chimney sat a party of six gray feathered snow birds warming their tiny toes. After that we didn't begrudge any of the heat that went up the chimney even if coal was eight dollars a ton, for perhaps there were some little feathered friends warming themselves on our chimney top.
A Marion lady is contemplating a trip to Europe this summer, but can hardly make up her mind to risk the ocean voyage. If she was a good Christian Scientist, now she could, while enjoying the comforts of home life, take in all the sights of the old world, in mind and it would be lots cheaper, too.
We hope the chicken ordinance will be better enforced this year than it has been in the past.
