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Unless sufficient protest from the Marion community is lodged with the Corporation Commission, the Santa Fe buses running through Marion, northbound at 3:18 p.m. and southbound at 6:47 p.m. will be discontinued December 5. About two hundred tickets a month are sold to passengers who board these buses at Marion, it is estimated at the Pharmacy, the local bus station.

The Marion High School Warriors won the football championship of the Cottonwood Valley League when they defeated Peabody, before a record crowd, on the Peabody field Thanksgiving Day. The score was 13-0.

Miss LaVaughn Christensen became the bride of Mr. Eddie Klose, in an impressive ceremony at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Christensen of Marion, Nov. 20 at two o'clock in the afternoon. Rev. Henry Knoke performed the double ring ceremony.

Owners of a new Luscombe, purchased through Virgil Hoopes of the Marion Airport are Norman Plenert and Carroll and Merrill Christiansen, Durham. Oliver Unruh and Mr. Hoopes are in Dallas today to take delivery on the new 65 Silvaire.

Phyllis and Wayne Thies rode the Doodlebug to Lehigh Saturday to visit their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Groening. Their parents went after them Sunday and were dinner guests at the Groening home.

One of Marion County's oldest pioneer women, Mrs. T.B. Jackson of Peabody, died at her home last Sunday morning at the age of 92. She would have been 93 in March. Mrs. Jackson, who was the mother of Guy Jackson, Marion businessman, came to Kansas with her husband in 1881 and homesteaded 10 miles southwest of Marion, and later moved to Peabody.

Recent new car deliveries by Paul Seifert Motor Company include the following: 2-ton truck to Riddle Quarries; Chevrolet fleetline aero sedan to Leonard Klenda; Chevrolet 5-passenger coupe to J.F. Perdue; Chevrolet one-half ton pickup to Dave Seifert; Chevrolet fleetline aero sedan to C.A. Engle; Chevrolet aero sedan to Jim Yeagley; and a Buick super sedanette to John J. Koop.

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