100 years ago
may 17, 1906
At a meeting of the school board Monday night all the teachers in the schools were tendered their places for another year. Charlie Brooker was employed to take the numeration. The janitors of both buildings were also tendered their places for the coming year. The teachers: H.H. VanFleet, Supt.; Idella Harris, music instructor; Clara Morris, principal; Miss Kent, assistant principal; hill school — Rhoda Field, 7th and 8th grades; Lena Sheets, 5th and 6th grades; Grace Owens, 3rd and 4th grades; Angie Stout, 1st and 2nd grades; valley school — Adolphus Harrison, principal; Jennie Corby, 5th and 6th; Annabel Knowles, 3rd and 4th; Anna Bown, 1st and 2nd.
Decoration Proclamation
Attention is hereby called to the fact that Wednesday, May 30th, will be Decoration Day. The observance of the day is recognized by law in respect, honor and memory of the Union soldiers and sailors, who sacrificed their lives for the preservation of the Union.
It is therefore recommended that our people suspend for the time being on that day, ordinary pursuits and join in such services as may be given in Marion in memory of those deceased patriots. It is further recommended that sports or games that detract from or mar the solemnity of the occasion should be avoided.
R.L. King, Mayor
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The cooking school which was to be opened here in the near future has been declared "off" for the present. The lady who was to conduct it is sick and has been compelled to go to the hospital for treatment. The matter will probably be taken up again as soon as she recovers sufficiently to take up her work.
The Dedication Service of the Christian church which occurred last Sunday, was a pleasant and profitable occasion. Sufficient money had been provided for the building before the work was commenced, but $800 was needed for reseating the church with opera chairs. Eight hundred and three dollars was raised. Rev. W.S. Lowe, of Topeka, preached three splendid sermons during the day's services. Music was furnished by the German Baptist choir. Miss Nona Good also sang a beautiful solo. At the evening service which was a union meeting of the churches of the town, all the ministers of the different churches assisted.
Schoneman, the shoe man, has been having the interior of his shop fixed up in fine shape the past week.
The Commencement Exercises of the Senior class will take place on Friday evening, May 25th, at the Auditorium. The graduates are: Nona Good, Athol Vadakin, Pearl Kuhn, Clyde Clark, Earl Minton, Matilda Wegerer, Marguerite Saggau, Jerome McIntosh, Charles Brooker and Align Frazer.
The German Baptist church will have a tent meeting beginning June 3rd. The meeting on the 3rd will be an all day service.
Eighty-one banks have been established in Kansas during the past year, and deposits in Kansas banks have increased over 25 million dollars. Yes, Kansas is getting along fairly well, thank you.
Many fellows who went from here to Canada to look for land have returned and are of the opinion that it is possessed by a majority of spies sent by Moses into Canaan. Another evidence that you cannot believe all that you hear.
Mrs. Shaque and her daughter, Miss Letta, of Peabody, have taken charge of the dining room and kitchen at the Elgin hotel.
A crowd of young people had a moonlight picnic at Rain-bow lake one evening last week. The refreshments, the moonlight and the rowing were all splendid. It is an ideal place for such a picnic. The company consisted of Misses Allen, Saggau and Downes and Messrs Seitz, Rogers and Kerr.
The extensive improvements in the Christian church cost between 22 and 23 hundred dollars. And it is all paid for.
Gov. and Mrs. Hoch shook hands with Marion friends Saturday afternoon at the depot as they passed through on the Rock Island en route for Chickasha, Okla. They visited with Judge and Mrs. J.R. Dickerson and family, of that place, for a few days.
There will be a dance at the new hall, southeast of Pilsen, Monday night, May 21st. Everybody invited.
A "Fete of Roses" will be given on the evening of June 1st, at the home of Mrs. L.F. Keller. The young people of the town are to be the guests of honor, although everyone is cordially invited to attend. The ladies of the Foreign Missionary Society are to be the hostesses.
Misses Winnie Carter, Marie Cuthbert and Mamie Wheelock and Messrs Paul E. Walker and LeClair L. Grill were pleasantly entertained at a chafing dish party by Mr. and Mrs. C. Henri Strawn at the Elgin Hotel Wednesday evening.
Some one in this town has taken a great liking to other people's pansy plants and so the "other people" have none.
