35 years ago
APRIL 3, 1969
Marion schools have been dismissed for the last three days of the week to pay respect to Dwight D. Eisenhower and to mark the Easter season. The schools had originally been scheduled to close on Good Friday and the Monday following Easter. With the death of General Eisenhower it was proclaimed by Gov. Robert Docking that Kansas schools could, and should, take either Monday or Wednesday of this week as a day of mourning in honor of the late President.
The days of the one-room rural school are almost entirely past, but Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia is bringing one back to life, a former Marion County schoolhouse. It will be a museum and memorial to pioneer Kansas education. The school building, the former Dobbs School, which was located on ground now occupied by the Marion Reservoir, was moved to the KSTC campus and is being reconstructed as nearly as possible as it was originally. The Dobbs School building was a gift to the college by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kruse of Marion.
Ralph Richmond, Marion, who is a member of the Kansas Water Well Association, was host at the district meeting of the KWWA Saturday at the Ranch House in Emporia.
The art work at the city library for the month of April has been arranged by KanzAton Club. It features the art work of Miss Mary Beth Kjellin, a recent participator in the Hallmark Art Contest.
A "Teenage Republican Federation" has organized in Marion with Jeff Longhofer a county chairman and Jennie Widler as county secretary. The purpose of the organization is to support the Republican party. "Any teen-ager who will support the Republican party may join," young Longhofer stated.
Marion can't be accused of being a "one horse town." G.F. Beisel, who lives on South Freeborn, thought someone was playing an April Fool joke on him Tuesday when he saw three horses running down the street in his neighborhood. Godfrey said some people have been complaining about the dogs and cats, but horses are "just too much."
