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A general rain of one inch and more over most of Marion County Wednesday night and Thursday morning again brought harvest operations to a halt. It was a rain that was not at all needed or wanted.
The first wheat cut in the Marion community this year was probably that which was received at the Aulne Grain Company Friday afternoon. In a front page photo, Andrew Seibel is pictured as he unloaded the hopper of his combine into his truck preparatory to taking it into Aulne. Mr. Seibel lives a mile west of Aulne and was assisted by his son Bob in the cutting, The wheat tested 57 with 12% moisture and was yielding about 25 bushels to the acre at the time the picture was taken.
Bess Haizlip was successfully surprised on her birthday June 20 when her mother, Mrs. A.W. Haizlip, and her sister Sue planned a party in her honor. Invited guests were Margie Winter, Carol Conyers, Joyce Remmers, Lou Wheeler, Lucinda Hauser, Karen Thole, Sue Summervill, Beverly Pankratz, Ethel Brunner, Kathy May, Sue Ann Bratton, Ruth Muck and Annabelle Bass.
Thirteen students from Marion are included among the 1759 who have enrolled for college level work at Emporia State College for the first two six-week terms. They are Donald Ecker, Roger Hannaford, Mrs. Pat Jackson, Carolyn Merrill, Verona Mullikin, Leonard Navrat, Mrs. Lola Razor, Carmen Siebert, Mrs. Mary Strahm, Marion Summervill, C.W. Wall, Leslie Wiebe, and Mrs. Peggy Wygle.
Keith Kelsey, agent for the State Farm Mutual Insurance Company here for the past four years, received a very nice advancement recently, to take effect soon. He will be transferred to Emporia where he will take over an agency of the same company there. The company is in the process of screening applicants for the position here, Kelsey stated.
Friends of Laura Jane Bredemeier will be interested to hear that she has accepted a position for two months this summer as camp nurse at a girls' camp in Mercer, Wisconsin.
