100 years ago
SEPTEMBER 8, 1904 — The City schools will open Monday, Sept. 12th. Pupils who were promoted are requested to bring their promotion cards. Examinations will be held for new pupils and those deficient in their work Thursday and Friday of this week in the High School building. Do not buy text books till you have consulted with your teacher.
Teacher's meeting will be held in the High School building Saturday, Sept. 10th, at 9 a.m.
H.H. Van Fleet, Supt. City schools
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Pickpockets seem to have followed the crowd last Thursday. We have heard of several losses at the hands of these light-fingered gentlemen.
John Smith's little four-year-old girl came down town last Thursday with some of the children but became separated from them and lost in the crowd. She was taken by W.J. Gaunt to Mart Mansfields, but the child was so thoroughly frightened that she was unable to tell her name or the name of any of her folks. She finally became somewhat quieted and could think of "Uncle Mahlon." Mart took her to Wright's and she was happy.
J.E. Evans, sheriff of this county, and his excellent wife, will leave next week for an extended visit east. They will accompany their Lost Springs friends, George Shirk and wife, and will go upon the special train of the Bankers' Association. They will visit Detroit, Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Albany, Hudson River, Catskill Mountains, and New York City, returning via Washington, D.C., Mammoth Cave and the World's Fair. Jim will probably try to pass himself off as one of the western magnates and if any one can, he can.
Rev. Frank McCormick, of Douglass, filled the pulpit at the M.E. Church, Sunday, for his brother, who was unable to preach on account of illness. He preached two splendid old fashioned gospel sermons.
Mr. James Mansfield, wife and daughter, of Wamego, visited Mr. and Mrs. Matthews several days this week. These men were comrades in suffering in Andersonville, during the war.
M.S. Bryan is taking in the sights of the World's Fair this week. Mrs. Bryan and two daughters, Eva and Gertrude, who have been some weeks in Illinois, will return with him.
George Coble arrived last Monday from an extended trip through the northwest. He seems to be in love with Washington, but we hope not to the extent that he will want to go there to live.
T.W. Butcher, the jeweler, has in his show window a clock that runs four hundred days with one winding. It is a handsome clock as well as a fine piece of mechanism.
A large crowd of our people were in Wichita, Monday, attending the Labor Day celebration in that place. Seventy- five cents for the round trip was too much of an inducement for them to stay home.
Ruth and Roscoe, children of Judge R.L. King, are expected home tomorrow, from Missouri, where they have been spending the summer with relatives.
Orrin Weimer writes us from Arkansas that he expects to return with his family to Marion about October 1st and will make this their future home. He will continue to tune pianos, and requests all who have instruments out of repair to wait until he comes.
At a meeting of the Auditorium board last night, the contract for the cement auditorium was signed and all details of the building settled. One carload of cement has already been received and is being made into blocks. The work is to be paid for as material is received and work progresses, so that it is necessary for all who have agreed to take stock to pay at once, as money is needed now.
Echoes
Newton, Kansas, Republican: The Republican campaign in Kansas was opened in a blaze of glory at Marion yesterday and "Little Harvey" had a conspicuous part of the proceedings. The most sanguine hopes of those in charge of the affair were more than realized. The park where the afternoon exercises were held was especially beautiful. It is undoubtedly one of the finest natural parks in the west and the people of Marion have added to its beauty at a great expense and trouble. The cool, restful, and attractive surroundings at this park gave to the worn and weary a fine place to rest during the day. The park is near the heart of town and within easy walking distance. It is doubtful if there is another town in the state of the size of Marion that could have furnished the accommodations for a crowd that Marion did.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1904 microfilm files of the Marion Record.)
