100 years ago

june 9, 1910

Iron Poles

The city commissioners have decided to use hollow iron poles for the electric light wires on Marion street, instead of wooden poles as at first planned. This will be a great improvement. There will be twenty-four poles on Main street—three on each side of the block. The corner poles will be placed so that the light will be thrown down the side streets. The poles will be twenty feet high and the lights hung on arms fourteen feet from the ground.

The Glorious 4th began on Tuesday of this week. Al Richardson was seen out behind this store shooting fire-crackers.

Drop a gentle tear for the drayman these days. streets are torn up for the sewer ditches and water pipe trenches, and horses slipping and stalling and wheels going down to the hub and trouble, trouble, no end of trouble.

Rosse Case and Clyde Loveless pleasantly interviewed people about town Tuesday in behalf of the band. The boys need some new instruments, some new uniforms and have other incidental expenses that must be met. No member of the band draws any pay, not even the leader, Ross Sheets, and when any money is received by the band, it is turned into the fund to keep up the equipment and meet the incidental expenses. Most of the people who were consulted “came across” cheerfully.

Miss Lizzie Apel left here on Saturday of last week and will sail from New York on June 11. She will land at Naples and will spend the summer in Europe. She goes as an interpreter for a party of travelers, but will spend considerable time with relatives in Germany. Upon her return in the fall, her sister, Miss Marjorie, will accompany her. Miss Marjorie has not been back or seen her father since she left here eleven years ago, and at that time she was a little girl six or seven years old. Her father, Mr. Bernard Apel, will be the happiest man in Marion when he has both of his daughters home with him again.

V.H. McMillen is building an addition to his Owl Car. That Owl Car, by the way, is becoming one of the most popular eating places in town.

In spite of the city ordinance, riding bicycles on the sidewalks seems to be quite the thing these days. Hero Baldwin was run into one day last week and received a number of bruises. One of these days, a serious accident will occur and then there will be another tidal wave of reform—as usual.