60 years ago
march 14, 1946
A band of gypsies parked three cars and two trailers up by the Conoco station Wednesday a.m. and set up camp. By the time the word had spread among Marion residents and hurried trips made to lock dwellings, the sight of the sheriff's car parked across the street from the camp had changed the gypsies' plans and they were on their nomadic way.
When the fast-traveling booze car failed to make the three-mile turn east of Marion last weekend and proceeded to do a couple of ground loops, some 250 bottles broke on the pavement and gurgled down into the gully that drains into the Marion County Lake. Now, they say, local fishermen are polishing up their technique on how to catch pickled trout and pie-eyed pike.
A report at the Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday evening disclosed the prospect of ice delivery in Marion during the summer months as still precarious. Gordon Wolf had previously reported that the Marion Creamery would not deliver ice during the coming season. Contact had subsequently been made with the Home Ice Co. of Florence. Lack of a man to take over the Marion territory prevents assurance that that company will fill the need.
P.N. Rees, 63, manager of the Seymour Packing Company, died of a heart attack at the wheel of his car this morning, Thursday, one-half mile south of Scranton on U.S.-50 as he was traveling to Topeka to attend an all day meeting of Seymour managers.
Mrs. Herb Jost, assisted by Mrs. June Jost entertained a number of little folks at a party March 9 in honor of the sixth birthday of her niece, Gaila Jost. Guests invited were Karen Jost, Mary Ann Williams, Mary Lee and Carol Sue Conyers, Arlene Hett, Sharon Prop, Lowene Hiebert, Joyce Schmidt, Donna June Jost and Maurice Jay Jost.
