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april 22, 1909

A Big Day Saturday

The biggest thing in county high school affairs this week, at any rate the subject that will mostly be discussed besides lessons, is the track meet of the County Athletic league which will be held in Marion, Saturday, April the 24th. Special train service will bring the lovers of good clean sport from Burns and Florence, getting them here in good time for the big event.

A good deal of “go” has been injected into the coming event by the work at Emporia last Saturday. A number of students from Marion, Florence and Burns went over and, in the events in which they took part, showed themselves capable of staying with the pick of a much larger school, which speaks volumes for the high standard attained by the smaller schools.

The Marion parties attending the track meet at Emporia were Profs. St. John, Harrison and Jones; Messrs. Paul Williams, Laird Dean, Willard King, Roy Frazer, Louis Keller, Clifford Coburn, Ed Haller, Oscar Pierce, Ira Burkholder, Henry Minton of the high school and Algernon Curtis of the grades.

Courthouse News

The County Clerk went to Gale, Menno and West Branch townships Monday to make out non-resident affidavits for members of the Mennonite church at Brudertal, Springfield, Gnadanau, Alexanderwohl and Tabor.

John Briney was the first to bring in crows’ heads and eggs. He came in last Saturday with five crows and 23 eggs.

Charles F. Brooker, ex-clerk of district court, has been loafing around with the boys at the courthouse. Brooker says the ring is not so round as it once was.

Tom Armstrong, undersheriff, has been busier than a cranberry man serving injunction papers and so on. Tom dotes on injunction papers.

Fred Bowlby is the official landscape gardener and has set out evergreens, elm, hard maples, linden trees as well as snowball bushes and one other with a long unpronounceable name but a flower that smells sweet just the same. The trees were purchased of McNicol, the nurseryman at Lost Springs.

Dr. R.C. Smith received his auto, the Overland, last Thursday and after a little while was using it to make his professional calls. Friday night he was called to Canada and was mighty well pleased the way the car acted.

The new bank at Aulne was organized with the following board: S.P. McDonald, president; J.H. Winkley, vice president; S.P. Byers, cashier; Andrew Larson and C..M. Nusbaum, additional directors. A new building will be erected and the bank hopes to be in running order by July 1st, when the deposit guaranty law goes in effect.

Sheriff Mansfield went to Topeka Tuesday to serve a warrant on Frank Risk who left the Elgin Hotel two weeks ago with a suitcase and satchel that did not belong to him. He was tried before Justice Keller Wednesday afternoon and fine $1 and costs, $30.90. He will be detained at the jail for a while.

Last Friday night a fine new auditorium was opened at Canton and the Pilot of that city said that Orrin M. Weimer of this city was there and took part in the opening program.

If you want to have the sensation of flying and at the same time be close to the ground take a ride in one of those new high power autos recently brought to Marion. We took a sail with Ben Hirschler in their new Overland the other evening. It is a four cylinder, thirty horsepower car. There is a good smooth stretch in the southeast part of the city limits that has proven a good place to exercise a car and we were soon there, going at better than a forty-five mile gait. Ben said the car could do sixty-five miles per hour. Well, we have no reason to doubt what he said about it. There was lots of speed left when we had to slow down for a short turn.

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