100 years ago
FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1903 — The White City Register rubs it in on us in this way: "Marion has the reputation of playing good ball and our fellows well knew they were going up against a stubborn proposition, but were confident of victory. The Record said last week that the Emporia boys struck a snag in Marion. Said Wichita, Topeka, El Dorado, Eureka, Osage City, Peabody and other places had met defeat before the Emporia team, but it fell Marion's lot to lay them low. We add, it fell the lot of little old White City to lay Marion low."
The Lecture Course
The Marion Lyceum Committee has made its selections for next winter's course, and here they are.
The course will open in October with a concert by the Honey Boys. Then will follow lectures by Col. W.W.J. Ham, Father Francis Clement Kelley, and Ed Amhearst Ott. Then the Central Grand Concert Company will give an entertainment. The course will close in March with a lecture by Rev. Frank Dixon. It will be observed that the course includes six numbers instead of five as heretofore. And it puffs us up with pride to be able to add that enough tickets have already been sold to pay for the entire course, and the seating capacity of the Baptist church is going to be taxed to hold the regular ticket holders. "If you want to get in on the ground floor" you'll have to hustle.
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George Morgan, "son of the old man," has returned to Peabody and will take his old position on the Gazette. George is a splendid young man, and here's a cordial welcome to him back to business at the old stand.
A crowd of ten young folks from Upper Luta, with well filled baskets, went on an exploring expedition to Dickinson county the first of the week. Leaving in three rigs they made their way to Hope and from there to the Hope stucco mine, where they expected to explore the mine but on reaching that place they were disappointed, being told by the foreman that the mine was flooded and that they couldn't possibly go down. Then the explorers, went to Turkey Creek and found a shady grove where they decided to eat dinner, and all ate heartily of chicken, pie, cake, etc. After about three hours rest they went to St. Joe mill several miles south of Dillon where the night watchman, Mr. Walls, formerly of Marion, showed the crowd through the mill and explained the process by which the stucco plastering is made. They next went to the St. Joe mine where they met the day watchman and the night engineer to whom the crowd are indebted for being permitted to explore the mine. As the mine is 95 feet and as they had to be lowered in a bucket, the boys thought the girls couldn't muster up enough courage to go down. They were mistaken for some of the girls went down in the first bucket. After the crowd had been lowered, the day watchman took them all through the mine where they gathered a lot of stones as souvenirs. The following are the names of the explorers: Vest Bland, George McCandless, Millie Clubine, Jesse Wise, Charles McIntosh, Minnie McCandless, Fred Ward, Edwin McIntosh, Mae and Anna McIntosh.
Mother Utting and her daughter Mrs. Henry Wight, and Chris Utting's little boy, Carl, left Tuesday for Rocky Ford, Colorado, to visit Mrs. Dena Hereford, nee Miss Dena Utting.
About twenty five of the young people of the District 61 vicinity surprised their friend Martin Hayen, on Monday evening, July 20th, in honor of his seventeenth birthday. The evening was very pleasant spent playing games. Ice cream and cake were served after which the guests departed.
A short time ago Deputy Sheriff John Templeton of Lost Springs received word from Sheriff Evans, of Marion, to keep a watch out for two men who had stolen some horses down near Aulne. Jake Shaner of Lost Springs bought two horses from some strangers and Templeton, thinking all was not right, arrested John Doe and Richard Roe and phoned for Sheriff Evans to come to Lost Springs. He took Under sheriff, M.L. Mansfield with him. They took charge of the prisoners, put them in irons, and started for Marion on the 4:38 Rock Island train where they will be lodged in jail for safe keeping. The two men are charged with stealing two horses from Mr. Hine west of Aulne. They gave their names as Chas. Huntington and James Moore. They had traded one horse and sold two to J.F. Shaner, the Lost Springs liveryman.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the microfilm files of the Marion Record.)
