125 Years ago
april 10, 1885
The editor of this great Agricultural-Scientific-Educational-Mechanical Art and Fashion Journal, having lived in a dug-out long enough, is preparing to erect a modest residence on his superlatively beautiful lots on the corner of Lincoln avenue and Lawrence street. Selah!
The Marion Roller Mills, Strohwig, Rogers & Bowron proprietors, is turning out a splendid quality of flour, a fact which is becoming known abroad as well as at home. Since the fine new machinery was put in some months ago, the mill has been running almost constantly night and day.
A petrified stump was recently discovered protruding from the ground several miles east of Marion. Mr. I. Pavey brought a large chunk of it to town last week and exhibited it in this office. If that old stump could talk, it could doubtless tell a wonderful story of the long, long ago.
Mr. W.H. Wade, a gentleman sixty-one years of age, illustrated, last year, what industry can accomplish in Kansas. Single handed and alone he raised 2,100 bushels of corn, 100 bushels of potatoes, and acre of rice corn, an acre of sorghum, besides attending to the thousand and one odds and ends of farm life. All this on upland, in Clear Creek township. For a man of his age we think this remarkable. Can any one beat it?
Mr. John Scully, son of the Irish lord who owns so much land in this county, died suddenly of ervsipelas at his home in Lincoln, Ill., last Saturday. The deceased was well known in Marion, and highly esteemed here by all who knew him. We regret to record his death.
At the Court house meeting, last Sunday afternoon, a Baptist church was organized with twenty members, and several others are expected to join soon. This is the result of Rev. McAuley’s labors. He is now beginning the preliminary steps which we trust will result in the erection of a Baptist church here at an early day.