60 years ago
APRIL 29, 1943
Jacob Meier Jr. will move his shoe and harness repair shop to a new location this week. Mr. Meier has purchased the building formerly occupied by the Oklahoma Tire Company and owned by Mrs. Fred Greenemeyer, and will make it his business location. The enlarged room will give him a better chance to handle the increasing business especially in the harness repair and dipping end of his work.
Navrat and Powell are going to have some fun. A circus advance man arranged with them to service forty-five trucks Sunday morning as they are en route from Wichita to Abilene. He left a contract binder of $25 as first payment. The job will be the largest one gas service job that they have ever done.
Marion High School music department will present "Sunbonnet Girl," an operetta in two acts May 7 in the high school auditorium. Leading parts will be played by Norma Jean Amick, Herb Meier, Darlene Johnson, Helen Hett, Ella Meier, Wayne Nelson, Phyllis Beu, Doug McGinness, and Edwin Beu Jr. Other parts of importance will be played by Mary Jo Utting, Mildred Garrison, Peggy Gerstenkorn, Ellen Newsom, John Edmunds, and Bob Wiebe.
Mrs. Broder Williamson entertained Friday afternoon in honor of her daughter Jeannene's seventh birthday. Little girls present were Donna Herbert, Billy Herbert, Karen Brodhead, Carmen Siebert, Charlene Youk, Phyllis Youk, Marilyn Reh, Janet Holub, Vicky Black, Joy Burnett, Nancy Lee Broadstreet, and Jeannene.
The freezes of the past week or so held growing crops back so much. Some of the early strawberry blossoms are killed as well as the flowering shrubs. Warm weather and some rain would be fine by everything.
Williams School had the last day program and supper last Thursday. Miss Elvina Loewen was the teacher. The two graduates there this year were Catherine Heerey and Howard D. Foth.
