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The new entrance to Marion Cemetery, recently completed by Pestinger Construction Co. of Hillsboro, makes an attractive addition to the cemetery. It is of cut stone and provides a functional duty as well as lending dignity to the area. The present cemetery board consists of Ollie Wight, president; Gail Merrill, vice president; Alex Case, treasurer; Walter Keazer, secretary; Gordon Wolf, August Schoneman, and Paul Shahan.
James Allen Druse Jr., 2 1/2-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Druse of El Dorado, was quite seriously injured Saturday afternoon in a fall from a slippery slide at Bown Corby School. Little Jimmy fell six feet onto the concrete and suffered a fracture from his ear along a line to the back of his head, then upward toward the crown. He was unconscious for some time and remained in Wesley Hospital until Tuesday evening, then was released and taken to his parent's home in El Dorado. The doctors report no brain damage.
Mrs. Henry Regier announces the engagement of her daughter, Margie Louise, to Eugene Christensen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Christensen.
The Kansas State Society of Long Beach, California, is having its annual "Kansas Admission Day" picnic on Sunday, January 27, at Bixby Park, Broadway and Cherry avenues, Long Beach. There will be registration of all 105 Kansas counties, as in the past. A list of those registering from Marion County will be sent at a later date and it will be carried in this newspaper.
Kerns A. Allen, a senior at Emporia State Teachers College, will got to work in February as an accountant with Continental Oil Company, Ponca City Okla. Allen is a graduate of Marion High School. He is a veteran of three years service with the U.S. Army and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Allen, Marion.
Readers will remember that a big tooth was found last summer by Dale Anderson while working in a gravel pit on the turnpike construction near Arkansas City. Anderson sent a picture of the tooth to the Smithsonian Institution and Waldo Wedel, curator of archeology at the institution, has replied that he believes the tooth to be that of a Mastodon, representing the Pleistocene species of the Mammut Americanum. Mastodons are an extinct genus of mammals which were closely related to the present day elephant. The Pleistocene epoch was that which preceded man.
