100 years ago

august 4, 1910

Fine doin’s

The opening number of the best Chautauqua of the season, Tuesday evening, was William Jennings Bryan’s great lecture, “The Prince of Peace.” It was given to an audience of between eighteen hundred and two thousand.

It is not necessary to say that it was a great lecture, nor that Mr. Bryan is a great public speaker. He has a charming personality and it is a delight to listen to him.

Marriage Licenses

Jessie H. Koehn, Durham and Rachel B. Jantz, Tampa.

Thomas W. Kelsheimer and Laura E. Ball, both of Peabody.

Henry E. Unruh, Hillsboro and Liese Rempel, Kendall.

Lights—yes, electric lights once more again in Marion, if you please. They were turned on Tuesday night, the city officials, the construction company men and all connected with the matter working like Trojans to get them ready by Chautauqua time. Pass all the flowers in the garden to all these men for their fine public-spirited work in this matter. And of all fine sights for ladies and men, the finest is this—that string of lights from the west of Main down through the park and over the bridge to the Chautauqua grounds.

John B. Greer has an apple tree that has yielded 10 bushels of fine apples this year. It is comparatively a small tree and before the apples were picked it looked as though the tree would be broken down by the weight of the apples.

The Presbyterians are having a basement excavated under their church and will put in a furnace.

A cement walk is being laid from John Powers’ place south to Main street corner to J.H. Hoch’s shop. A heavy pipe rail is being put in along the ravine on the east of the walk and a new wall has been laid along the Ekeler place. It is a splendid improvement.

Workmen excavating under the Presbyterian church the past week uncovered an Indian grave and found a number of broken pieces of pottery.

J.P. Reed left Sunday for Topeka to begin work with Worley’s harness company on Monday. Mr. Worley was his employer for a number of years. Mr. Reed works for the same man, rooms in the same house, and boards at the same place as when working in Topeka fifteen years ago. Myrle joined his father in Topeka yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Fick who live near Elk are the parents of a girl born last Friday.

In Tampa last week the writer met John Morton—one of the old timers of Marion. He has been in Old Mexico for several years as manager of the White Eagle Mining Co. It is a silver proposition and Mr. Morton grows eloquent on the subject. The properties owned by the company are sixty or seventy miles south of the U.S. boundary line and 20 or 25 miles from the railroad.