100 years ago
february 22, 1906
An excursion party, under the direction of Mr. Gould, agent for the Southwestern Land Co., of Burlington, Iowa, left last Tuesday for New Mexico. There were a number of Hillsboro people in the party, among whom were S.L. Armstrong, Mr. Ebel and Mr. Gerstenkorn and wife. The Marion crowd, as far as we were able to secure the names, consisted of Dallas Rogers, Greeley Kyle, Carl Stebbins, John Thiese, O.C. Billings, A.E. Downes and Ferd Funk. The destination is Artesia, N.M., but a stop will be made at Roswell. The object of the excursion is to show the productiveness of the country, as a result of irrigation, and to interest people in land propositions down there. The party will be gone about ten days. Another party started at the same time for the Red River country. Messrs John Ehrlich and Karl Ehrlich were Marion representatives in this party. These excursions were worked up locally by L.S. Palmer.
Marriage Licenses
Samuel W. Kraus, Tampa, and Katie Grentz, Durham; William B. Brenning, Burns, and Dorothy F. Koebele, Burns; Joseph Krieger, Lehigh, and Mary Ebel, Lehigh; David Jost, Hillsboro, and Tina Prieb, Hillsboro.
Surprise Party
"Backward, turn backward
Oh, time in your flight.
Make me a child again,
Just for to-night."
This sentiment seemed to have been imbibed by every member of the Dawn Club, as they went in a body to the home of Miss Nanie Hannaford, last Thursday evening, in honor of that lady's birthday. Well laid plans for a genuine "surprise" were carried out to the letter. Every lady came dressed to represent a Valentine; and a varied assortment met the astonished view of the hostess. There were pretty pink and white and lacey valentines, with hearts and roses, then there were the comic ones, representing the strong minded woman just back from the equal suffrage convention, "Aunt Samantha" after her visit to Sicily, "Fraw Katsan Jammer" and old black "mammy Lindy," who related the "tarments and hagermarizings" of her recent excursion to Washington. A prize was offered for the best verse of Valentine poetry, and was won by Mrs. Preston Paddock. Mrs. Brown Corby, on behalf of the club, presented to Miss Hannaford, in a unique speech, the language being a parody on Shakespeare, a beautiful souvenir spoon. An elaborate supper was served and every one had a fine time.
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Over forty dollars was raised in this county for the marking of the Santa Fe trail, as a result of the penny collections taken in the schools of the county on Kansas Day.
A boy was born last Friday to Mr. and Mrs. I.E. Adams, who live southwest of town.
Joe Jirak has sold his place to James Huna and is moving to his recently purchased farm seven miles north of the old place.
Mr. and Mrs. Alf Sandwell are the parents of a girl, which arrived last Thursday.
A declamation contest will be held at Youngtown this evening. The winner of this contest will represent the Youngtown school in a county contest that is to be held during Institute. The judges are D.D. McIntosh, Prof. VanFleet and Dolphus Harrison.
Dave Powell will sell at public auction at his place six miles east and two miles north of Marion on Wednesday, Feb. 28th, 1 team work horses, 1 filly one year old, 5 milk cows, 1 heifer, 2 heifer calves, 14 dozen Plymouth Rock chickens, 6 guineas, corn, kaffir corn, alfalfa, farm implements and household goods. Sale begins at 10 o'clock. John McCarty, auctioneer.
Miss Gertrude Forney entertained the following young people Thursday evening in honor of Miss Lula Caldwell, of Canada: Misses Clara Paddock, Vinnie Wible, Marguerite Saggau, Sadie Mansfield, Alta Bown, Fae Paddock, Clara Sumner, Mayme Leavitt, Hazel Butcher and Messrs Athol Vadakin, N.S. Myers, Leslie Bryan, Will Wakefield, Chandler Knowles, Will Wible, Willard Keller, Harry Rogers and Harry Bowlby.
Dr. C.B. Mitchell preached to a crowded house at the Methodist church last Sunday evening. It was a magnificent sermon on the text, "God is no respecter of people." He renewed many old acquaintances while here and it was a real pleasure to his former friends to meet him again. Marion was Dr. Mitchell's first charge, and under his ministry the old brick part of the present church was built.
