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FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1903 — Beginning next week the RECORD'S publication day will thereafter by Thursday instead of Friday. The change is made primarily in the interest of our advertisers, for the accommodation, particularly, of their Saturday trade, and then we think our county subscribers will also be benefited in several ways. Advertisers must have their advertisements in by Wednesday morning, hereafter.
The regular Annual Reunion of former Ohioans now living in Marion county will be held in Central Park, Marion, Wednesday, August 19th.
Mr. Thomas Dickerson is ordinarily a very modest, humble gentleman, but he was greatly puffed up last week. He got inflated while trying to hive a swarm of bees. Hands and wrists were swollen out of shape, he was afflicted with big head, stiff neck, and other anti-Scriptural symptoms, and even his language strained his early Sabbath school training just a trifle, we understand. But, bee that as it bee, it was a painful experience.
While digging a cess pool at the premises of Rosse Case on the high land (the bluff) east of Luta Creek at a depth of over seven feet the workmen came upon a sack (about two quarts) of parched or burned corn. There was only the marks of the sack to be seen in the earth. Around the corn, near by was found a small fragment of petrified bone. This corn and bone petrifaction was found in solid clay earth which has never been disturbed since civilization came to the county. Indian graves are common on this high land but the graves heretofore discovered have been shallow. From the indications, the great accumulation of earth over them and the solid undisturbed clay formation, undoubtedly many hundreds and perhaps thousands of years have elapsed since this old warrior — if such he was — was laid to rest. What would you give to know his history and the history of his times? It was the custom of Indians to place with their dead something for the departed spirit to eat; also their bows and arrows and cooking utensils while on their way to the "happy hunting ground."
Farmers are talking about seventy-five bushels of corn per acre,
The RECORD acknowledges the receipt of a copy of a booklet entitled "The Overflowing Waters," written by Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter, of Topeka, and published under the auspices of the Topeka Federation of Women's Clubs. It was with real pleasure that the writer perused the pages of this delightful little piece of literature and the word literature is used advisedly, in its more limited sense. The purpose of the work is, in the words of the author, "to cover the flood of 1903 at Topeka, and to present as faithfully as possible the manner in which the city met the disaster and overcame it." The thrilling story of the "coming of the waters" and of the work of rescue and relief while the fair city was "in the water's grasp" is most vividly told. The work however is much more than mere narrative. It abounds in poetic expression in literary allusion, in interesting incident. With delicate touch the writer has given it the coloring of human interest, the shade of pathos born of the sadness and ruin of the hour, and the light of humor gleaming here and there as it ever does, in the midst of tragedy. And pervading it all is a spirit of delightful and buoyant philosophy. This little work alone, produced was under stress of an emergency, is sufficient to place its author in the first rank of Kansas writers. Proceeds are being devoted to the relief of flood sufferers.
Judge John B. Greer vouches for this story: He set a hen on fifteen eggs and just one week thereafter she "came off" with eighteen chickens. This entitles the Judge to a front seat in the Ananias club.
Mr. R. Kemper Zarcher, an old Marion boy, was married in Manila, June 25, to Senorita Maria del Carmen Michelena, a young Spanish lady, high up in social and financial circles in the Philippine capital. Kemper left Marion five years ago and became a member of the hospital corps attached to the 20th U.S. Inf. By a series of civil examinations he secured a prominent place in the Governmental Auditor's office, and has charge of the accounts of eleven of the various provences. From a long account of the wedding in the Manila Times we cull this single paragraph: "The high contracting parties are well known in Manila, they having many friends in this city. Mr. Zarcher is a popular employee of the Auditor's office, and the bride belongs to a prominent Spanish family."
Brown Corby's home in Topeka is quarantined on account of scarlet fever. Lucile has it.
Walter Sharp has recently been awarded a contract to erect a big, double-track double-arch bridge at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the principal street of the city, between the business part of the town and the State house. This is quite an honor to Walter. He is getting to be widely known as one of the most successful stone arch bridge builders in the United States. He has three of these bridges now under construction. We are proud of Walter Sharp.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1903 microfilm files of the Marion Record.)
