100 years ago
june 15, 1911
The wheat harvest in Marion County began Monday morning in real earnest. There are 169,132 acres of wheat in the county.
A.E. Case & Son have sold steamship tickets to Mr. and Mrs. George Vogel, who will start on a long journey within a few days that will take them to Russia. These good people have been here a long time and have made money and friends and now they will go back to the fatherland for a good long visit and possibly stay as long as they live. Friends will wish them a safe journey and hope they will decide to return to Kansas.
The City Commissioners have under consideration bids for filling in Main street from the bridge to the foot of the Schoolhouse hill. Crushed rock will be used.
The organization of Boy Scouts was formed Monday evening with the following 10 members: Melvin Hereford, Maurice Miesse, Earle Loveless, Paul Loveless, Alex Case, Dwight Lilley, Harold Woolheater, Lawrence Remmers, Howard Keller, and Frank Brown. Melvin Hereford was elected Patrol Leader and Dwight Lilley, Secretary.
The Good-Roads trip and social on Tuesday evening was a real success and about seventy-five dollars was realized which will be used for road work on the road running east from Marion.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hodge chaperoned the following young ladies on a motor boat party down the Cottonwood Tuesday evening: Misses Dorothy Heaton of McPherson, Lucile Burkholder, Edith Hodge, Alice and Ethel Wheeler.
Marion is a town of trees. It is one great big Park. Someone complained the other day that the citizens of the town do not patronize Central Park as they should, that is, they do not spend much time there, ordinarily enjoying the shade. Why should they, when they have fine, well-kept lawns and great trees at home? Central Park is Marion’s greatest asset. It is immensely valuable as a resort for strangers, who patronize it extensively, grow enthusiastic about it and carry away with them delightful memories of Marion because of it. It is a standing advertisement of the town. It is also a great value for public gatherings, and, of course, it is valuable to all our public for a strolling place, and a place of temporary rest. But, trees which abound about most of our homes furnish shade enough for daily enjoyment, and cause a casual observer to think our people do not appreciate the public Park. They do appreciate it. The voluntary work done in it the past few years attests that fact.
A number of Lincolnville people were down for the ball game on Tuesday and did a lot of high-class boosting for the Marion team. The party consisted of Frank Munroe, Sam Grinstaff, F.A. Smith, Henry Rhollof, Ed Hartke, Louie and Henry Wendlandt and Mr. and Mrs. George Wight.