60 years ago
AUGUST 12, 1943
It cost motorists $5 to cross the Mud Creek bridge Friday — if they didn't have a U.S. car use stamp displayed on their car. Approximately $500 were collected at the time.
Mrs. Frank Franta, Lincolnville, came near being a Victory Garden casualty the other day while canning corn. She took two quarts out of the pressure cooker to tighten the lids. She put them on the table and turned away a moment when one of them exploded. Glass particles and corn were blown everywhere about the room. Mrs. Franta ascribes her escape from injury to a charm medal she was wearing.
Mrs. David Wheeler Jr. entertained a number of little folks Monday afternoon in celebration of her daughter, Lenore's birthday. Games were enjoyed and Mrs. Wheeler took pictures of the group as they were enjoying the ice cream and birthday cake. Those present included Karen and Sheryl Becker, Karen Brodhead, Marion Hildebrand, Jeanette Russell, Phyllis Lipps, Floyd Baxter, and David Willis Wheeler.
The Seismograph service group which has been prospecting in Marion county since the first of the year, finished its work here the past week and moved to Russell taking with them John Edmunds, Edwin Beu, and Harry Chill who have been working for the company since school was out.
Mrs. Albert Ollenberger left Sunday for Washington state for a visit with her husband who is in camp near Tacoma. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Olsen took her to Junction City and she took the train from there Sunday evening.
Elmer Pritz has moved back to Marion and again is in the auto repair business here. Elmer closed out his business here a year ago and took a civilian position in the repair shops at Fort Riley where he has worked on all kinds of tanks and trucks and other Army equipment. He has again opened his private business on West Main.
When the Tatge brothers of Ramona recently harvested their 1,100 acres of wheat in eastern Colorado they took along 14 men in the Ramona community to help and got the 11-day harvest done in great shape.
