100 years ago
SEPTEMBER 18, 1903 — A game of base ball for the benefit of the Base Ball Association will be played one week from next Saturday between Marion's second nine and the country team with the Faust boys in the battery. It will be an interesting and gentlemanly game, and as the Association came out of the summer's campaign a little in debt of course our people will want to help the Association out.
At the church of the Holy Redeemer, Tampa, was solemnized yesterday, the nuptials of Mr. James B. Coyne, of East St. Louis, and Miss Caroline Meehan, of Tampa; The bride is a beautiful young lady, and as good as she is pretty.
The RECORD'S suggestion that the various secret societies and church organizations, clubs, etc., and also private individuals might do a good thing if each of them would select some appropriate permanent ornament for the Park and donate it to that beautiful resort, is being discussed. If each would do a little in this direction how greatly the Park could be improved in a few years. Fellow citizens, "think on these things."
The frost last week did no damage in Marion county that we have heard of.
Mr. W.W. Loveless is about through with his home improvements, and his residence is hardly recognizable by those who knew it before he began. It is a handsome house, and the fine commodious porch is especially attractive. Among other improvements is a hot water heater with radiators all over the remodeled house, and an acetylene lighting plant. Mr. and Mrs. Loveless now have one of the handsomest and most comfortable homes in town.
The Flinch party given in honor of Mr. John Musick at his home Monday evening was enjoyed by the following young people: Misses Carrie Watson, Mary Watson, Florence Saggau, Villia Ainsworth, Bessie Yost and Mr. Alvin Maltby.
The Santa Fe Company has decided to continue the sale of reduced rate one way tickets to Oklahoma, Texas, Pan Handle, Pecos Valley and other points south of LaJunta. These tickets will be on sale the first and third Tuesdays up to and including April 1904. The company will also place in effect daily one-way colonist rates to California and intermediate points from September 15 to November 30th, inclusive. These rates are established for the accommodation of people who have decided to move to some of the points included.
The Presbyterians are fixing up in fine style. The interior of the church has been greatly improved with new paper, carpeted, painted, the parsonage painted, new cement sidewalks the full length of the premises on the south and leading up to the church and parsonage, grounds are being cleaned up, etc. When it is all done it will be a big improvement to that part of town and a credit to the liberality and taste of the congregation. The RECORD believes, you know, that the prettiest premises in a town should be its church premises — that the church should set everybody the best example along esthetic as well as moral and religious lines.
Cards are out announcing the approaching nuptials of Mr. Richard Sherman Bradley to Miss Willie Ella Hoch, daughter of Judge W.F. Hoch. The wedding is to occur October 6th.
Mr. S.S. Brewerton has set a fine example for other residents on the beautiful Walnut street. He had made a beauty spot of his home premises. The dirt for the parking he hauled himself in a wheelbarrow. All the work he did himself, which we consider fine for a man nearly eighty years of age. If he can do such improving, who can't?
Asa Gray, a deaf printer, who worked on the RECORD for a year or two, but quit our service some months ago, was killed by a freight train while walking on the Rock Island track three miles north of Marion last Tuesday afternoon. He was coming to town from the Quarry where he had been to see about a job. The trainmen say he was walking beside the track and paid no attention to the whistle, but stepped on the track just before the train reached him. He was a man about thirty-five years of age, and was a good printer and industrious, inoffensive man. He was a relative of the Shanklins.
American, Anacortes, Washington — A number of Mount Vernon visitors drove over Thursday to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. G.S. Hannaford of this city. The party was composed of Mr. and Mrs. George Coble, Mr. and Mrs. George Griffith, and E.S. Hannaford, all of Marion, Kansas, who have been visiting relatives and friends in Mount Vernon the past month. Mrs. R.C. Coble of Mount Vernon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Griffith, was also of the party. E.S. Hannaford is an uncle of G.S. Hannaford of the American office.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1903 microfilm files of the Marion Record)
