100 years ago
JUNE 30, 1904 — The RECORD has already referred to the marriage of Miss Edith Keller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.F. Keller, of this city. From the Mount Vernon, Washington Argus, we copy the following account of the event:
The marriage Thursday evening of Mr. Edward W. Ferris and Miss Edith Nillson Keller at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. W.M. King was entirely private, the ceremony being performed in the presence of immediate relatives.
The bride is a recent arrival from Marion, Kansas, having taken up her residence here a little more than a year ago during which time she has won the esteem and friendship of a large circle of acquaintances. The groom has resided in Mr. Vernon eleven years and during all that time has served in the position of court stenographer. In society and club circles he has always taken a prominent part and he has a host of friends all over the county that extend their warmest felicitations on the happy occasion of his marriage to a member of one of the foremost families of Kansas.
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Misses Alice and Sadie Gardner, assisted by others, entertained a number of their friends at the home of J.W. Gardner last Saturday night. The evening was spent in music and games. Light refreshments were served. Those present were Misses Marguerite Bridgeman, Mansie Lesher, Mable Kieler, Blanch Stovall, Mabel Taylor, Mabel Pray, Stella Porter, Alice Forney, LaVena Carter and Cora Reed, and Messrs. Chas. Mott, Fred Wheeler, Nodie Baker, Wesley Jacobs, George Riggs, Dolphus Harrison, John Gilbert, Lewis Iche, M. Harner, Alvin Wight, Henry Wheelock and M.H. Doyle.
The Colored Sunday school of Marion will give a Temperance Concert at the Court house July 24th, 1904. Admission 10 cents.
Dr. J.N. Hannaford has been quite sick the past week, being threatened with peritonitis. The Doctor was operated upon for appendicitis a short time ago, and his present trouble is probably due to over exertion before having full recovered from the operation.
George Donaldson and Dick Williams returned from Montana, yesterday, where they have been for several weeks buying horses. They brought in fifty-five head, mostly young stock.
The first meeting of the lot owners of Highland Cemetery held since 1898 was convened in the Court room Tuesday afternoon, W.H. Evans, President, presiding. After the reading of the reports of the Secretary and Treasurer and the approval of the same, the following board of directors was chosen by ballot. F.W. Bowlby, C.W. Thompson, F.J. Funk, S.C. Freeland, G.D. Scott. A resolution was adopted authorizing the board of directors to purchase additional ground for cemetery purposes, if deemed advisable by them. The association is in the best financial conditions for years, no indebtedness and about $375.00 on hand.
Miss Virgie Donaldson has resigned her position with Bauer & Kern and will be with the Thompson Dry Goods Co. after the Fourth. Miss Edith Riggs will take Miss Virgie's place at Bauer & Kern's.
Saturday evening it looked as though Marion was going to be under water again, as the Muddy lacked only a few inches of overflowing its banks. As it was, a good deal of bottom land was under water and considerable damage done to growing crops. The foot bridge in Central Park was washed out, the wire cables being torn loose from their anchorage on the south side and it is lying on the north side of the stream. A number of large trees in the park grounds and along the creek within the city limits were undermined and either carried away by the current or left lying on the banks.
The other day Ralph Bryan went to Ogden's to get his "picture took" and when everything was ready and Ogden was about to make the exposure, Ralph exclaimed, "Hold on!" then proceeded to unroll his trouser which had been turned up on account of the mud. And yet Ralph wanted only half-length picture made.
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From the July 5, 1873 RECORD files — The Fourth of July exercises at Lincolnville were closed by J.H. Costello who delivered a very able, patriotic and enthusiastic speech, eulogizing the progress of this continent from the discoveries of Columbus to the purchase of Alaska.
At the Marion celebration Major T.W. Bown read the Declaration of Independence in so creditable a manner as to elicit many favorable comments, and to say that the oration of Capt. S.R. Peters was splendid is but a tame expression, and we don't know how to do it justice. In the evening the fireworks were displayed by the skillful hands of R.T. Battey and his corps of able assistants from a platform erected in east Marion Centre.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1904 microfilm files of the Marion Record.)
