100 years ago
SEPTEMBER 3, 1903 — Three prisoners in the county jail who bear the names of Hunting, Moore, and Mason, the first two held for horse stealing and the last one for indecent exposure of person, tried to break jail Sunday night. In fact, they had been preparing for escape for several days. They were allowed the liberty of the jail corridor during the day, and were working a hole through the stone wall above one of the windows, covering the hole between times with paper to hide the work. Sheriff Evans got onto the scheme and laid for them all day Sunday. Sunday night he gave them the liberty of the corridor and caught them trying to enlarge the hole in the wall. Since then they have been locked in their cells and fed on bread and water.
The following young people from this city attended the dance in Florence Tuesday evening: Misses Mary Watson, Gertie Bown, Birdie Kline, Angie Mansfield, Virgie Donaldson, Carrie Watson, Ethel Dean, Edith Mansfield, and Willa Westbroook; and Messrs. Walter Corby, Taylor Riddle Jr., Roy Myers, Chas. Wible, Cecil Scott, Ed Hauser, Fred Entrican, and Chas. Watson.
From the official weather observations of Mr. I.E. Myers, we learn that over five inches of rain fell here during the month of August. There were thirteen clear days during the month, two cloudy days, and sixteen partly cloudy. The minimum temperature was 53 and the maximum temperature 96 degrees.
Mrs. W.H. Carpenter entertained a party of young ladies at an elaborate 5 o'clock luncheon Tuesday evening. Miss Irma Doster, of Topeka, being the honor guest. Those invited were Misses Irma Doster, Mary Watson, Elizabeth Lindsay, Virgie Donaldson, and Clara Paddock.
Henry Wight, the rustling and successful Clear Creek farmer, has been rusticating this summer in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Colorado, and sends us word from the latter state that he hasn't seen any place yet, that suits him half as well as Kansas.
The game of base ball, Friday, between the dry goods and grocery men of the town — "rag venders and prune sellers" — was a hilarious affair and resulted in victory for the rag venders by a score of 17 to 15.
Fred Wheeler, Lester Jones, Charles Wible and Ed Hauser went over to Peabody Sunday. With so many pretty girls in Marion, we don't see why the boys want to go away from home.
Miss Nanie Hannaford received a letter last Friday announcing the death of Rev. Sibley at his home in Kingman. Mr. Sibley was pastor of the Methodist church in Marion many years ago and is remembered as one of the best men who ever lived in this town. He was pure gold. He lived to a ripe old age. We visited him at his home a year or two ago, and found him feeble, but cheerful and happy.
The school marms of Kansas are up in arms — their own arms, of course — about the action of various school boards in the state prohibiting courting or marrying among teachers during their school years. Contracts are being drawn with this provision in them. Harvey county teachers publicly resolved last week against this infringement of their rights. The RECORD is with 'em and for 'em! The right to court and be courted must not be abridged in this land of the free and home of the brave.
The story is told that a White City minister who goes to church from his home in a carriage on Sundays, received an anonymous letter which called his attention to the fact that the Lord never rode to church in a carriage. The minister read the letter from the pulpit and then said: "If the writer will come to me next Sunday, properly saddled and bridled, I will be glad to follow the Lord's example and come to church as the Lord entered Jerusalem."
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1903 microfilm files of the Marion Record.)
