100 years ago
OCTOBER 13, 1904 — The delivery of stone for the concrete foundation for the new auditorium was begun last Friday. Two car loads of cement are on the way, and there is every prospect that the erection of the building will be pushed rapidly. The contract has been made, and the payments are necessarily large in a building of this character, when they are once begun. Get ready to take up your stock when the collectors call upon you.
We understand Morgan Mollohan is having a bed spell with asthma.
Word was received, Friday afternoon, of a distressing accident at Aulne, in which Robert Burkholder, a nephew of Sam Burkholder, a young man about 25 years of age, was run over by the cars and instantly killed. The young man was the village blacksmith. He was a large, strong man, in perfect health. He was a graduate of the Manhattan Agricultural college and was married about a year ago. It will never be known just how he met his death, but it is supposed that he was attempting to cross over the Rock Island work train, which blocked the crossing, and that it starting unexpectedly caused him to lose his balance, and threw him between the cars. He was talking with Charlie Davis, in front of his store, just a few moments before the accident occurred and was seen to go toward the east, in the direction of his shop. That a strong man should thus be struck down, without a moment's warning, is inexpressibly sad. The great shock to his delicate, young wife, and his relatives, touches every heart with the keenest sympathy. The deceased was greatly esteemed by all who knew him. The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, and were attended by a large company of sorrowing friends. The interment was in Claney cemetery.
Mrs. Music has had a fine new cement walk put in, in front of her home on the hill.
Our good friends and neighbors, Col. Jesse Sheets and his wife, are manifesting a great deal of interest in a family reunion of one branch of the family that is to take place shortly in Putman county, Ohio. They have had an invitation to join the Kansas crowd who are going but will be unable to attend. An uncle of Mrs. Sheets, past eighty years old, is very desirous of having a reunion of all his children at his home, and so anxious is he to have all of his direct descendants present that he is contributing $500 to a family fund to get them all home. He is the father of nineteen children, seventeen of whom are living. The Kansas and Oklahoma members with their descendants some fifty odd in number, began their journey Tuesday. They will meet at the St. Louis Fair, and go in a body to the parental home. Special rates have been conceded by the railroads for the trip.
Charlie Thompson has stone on the ground and is preparing to raise his house above the flood level.
We are unable to keep up with all those who have been or are going to St. Louis, from this vicinity, these days. If every other town is contributing to the attendance in the same proportion that Marion is, there will be a record breaking crowd before the gates are finally closed.
John Bagby has been having a serious time with blood poison resulting from a slight abrasion on one of this limbs. He is improving now.
A.H. Nooney and company, who are overhauling the school heating plants, have secured the job of repairing and remodeling the heating plant in John Powers' handsome residence on the brow of the hill. A new and modern residence boiler will be installed as a part of the plant.
R.L. Hodge has the excavation made and is well along on the foundation for his new house, south of F.D. Shanklin's place.
Lieutenant Chase Doster, U.S.A., who has been stationed with his command at Ft. Lincoln, North Dakota, for the past two years, was here this week visiting old friends, and looking over the scenes of his boyhood. He is looking well and is thoroughly delighted with his job. He will go to California at the expiration of his furlough and some time in February next, will cross the Pacific to resume service in the Philippine Islands.
Little Lucille Corby, after a week's visit with the family of W.O. Hannaford, returned to her parents' home in Herington Saturday.
J.R. Bowlby, J.H. McBurney, Mrs. Seymoure, James McNicol, Mr. Green and a number of other residents of Lost Springs, were in town, Monday, as witnesses in a suit against the R.I. Railroad for damage to the cemetery caused by fire, from a passing engine.
B.D. VanOstrand is adding a neat addition to the south of his residence. Van has one of the prettiest, best kept places in town.
The Baptist Ladies Aid Society held a social "Comfort Bee" at the home of Mrs. J.A. McCready October the 5th. A goodly number partook of the bountiful dinner which was given by the hostess, and all went away feeling that the day had been profitably and enjoyably spent.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1904 microfilm files of the Marion Record.)
