50 years ago
JULY 29, 1954
Two closed Marion County rural schoolhouses were sold last weekend and one more will be sold at public auction on August 27. The Wren schoolhouse, lot, and miscellaneous items sold to Joseph H. Meysing Friday for $1200. The Schlehuber school and miscellaneous items brought a total of $1253.35 Saturday. The building itself went to Sam Funk, Hillsboro, for $625. The Merry-Go-Round school, four miles south of Tampa, and other items will be sold August 27.
Marion County farmers were hosts last week to a group of 20 Turkish veterinarians and the head of the bacteriology department of the Turkish government. This was one of several Kansas counties they visited during their tour by special chartered bus.
Official of the Badger Lumber Co., Kansas City, Mo., visited the Marion yard last week and announced they were closing the Marion and other Kansas yards. Other yards in this vicinity which will be closed are Hillsboro, Herington and Abilene.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hauser and their grandson, Marc Hauser, returned Friday from a vacation trip to Grandview and other northern Minnesota resorts where they enjoyed the cool breezes and excellent fishing. Lucinda Hauser, who had been attending a girls' camp at Grandview for the past month, returned home with her grandparents.
Sarabel Wolf, Mary Hannaford, and John Newcomer went to Kansas City Saturday and were present Sunday afternoon for the capping service for nurses at Bell Memorial Hospital when Mary Ann Griswold, Newton, received her cap.
Marion residents will be allowed to use city water for gardens, shrubbery and trees on a limited schedule beginning Friday according to a city commission ruling Wednesday evening. For the past week usage has been restricted to strictly domestic use in order to conserve a dangerously short supply. An attempt is being made to up some clogged springs upstream in order to increase their flow, and further search for adequate well water supply will be considered.
