60 years ago
JANUARY 21, 1943
Monday, Jan. 25, marks a unique event in Marion County and even in Kansas history. It is the 75th anniversary of the establishment of Case & Son Insurance agency in Marion — a firm that has been continuously in the same business here since 1868.
There was no school Monday or Tuesday because of the storm. Reports of thermometer readings Tuesday morning were from 16 to 18 below zero.
Jess Coons of the Green Parrot Café recently was appointed county chairman for the Kansas Restaurant Association and will serve in this county for that organization for the coming year.
Buddy Hannaford is quarantined at home with the mumps. Mr. Hannaford and the girls are staying at the home of Mrs. McCullough.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Keazer and family were gassed Sunday night. They were able to return to their home Monday from the hospital. Mrs. Keazer, Joyce, and Nancy were patients at the hospital Sunday night. Mr. Keazer and Pauline were not so sick so they stayed at the home of his parents until their furnace was fixed. The vent did not take care of the fumes with the hard wind blowing.
Anna Lou Hoch had Ella Marie Reinke, Mary Helen King, Mary Lou Williams, Helen Hett, and Carol Lea Kiddoo as her guests for a house party over the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Abner Gilbert returned Wednesday evening from their enjoyable trip and visit to the East with relatives and friends in Pennsylvania. Their son, 2nd Class Seaman Lawrence Gilbert, had spent a few days with them in Pennsylvania. Since then, he has been transferred from Norfolk, Va., to San Francisco.
Miss Joan Miesse left Sunday for Topeka. She had remained here with her grandparents to finish this semester of school when her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Miesse, moved to Topeka.
