125 years ago
June 12, 1885
The Glorious 4th at Marion
The celebration of our great National anniversary at Marion, this year, promises to be an event long to be remembered.
It will be under the auspices of, but by no means confined to the Sunday Schools of the town, and will be big enough and broad enough in its programme of attractions to satisfy all whose views in such matters are at all within the bounds of reason and propriety.
There will be the regular patriotic oration by an eminent speaker, and addresses by other speakers, all of whose names we hope to announce next week.
Marion’s excellent band will make instrumental music for the occasion, with possible assistance from other bands. The finest vocalists of the town—and there are some very fine ones, here— will sing for the people, while an acre or two of children will make the woods ring with their sweet voices.
Central Park will be arrayed in its best clothes. The Luta which runs through it will be bridged, and pleasure boats will float serenely upon its placid bosom.
The handsomest procession ever seen in the county, with attractions never before witnessed here, will constitute a street pageant worth coming a long ways to see.
An excursion along the M&M will be arranged if possible, and the inhabitants of the prosperous but treeless towns will be invited to come and spend a day in the prettiest trysting place in central Kansas.
Truly, ‘tis “the big time coming.”
The RECORD is glad to see the “leading” daily papers falling in with the “leading” weekly paper in booming stone arch bridges. Come to Marion County, boys, the pioneer and boss “stone arch” county of the State and examine our four splendid structures, especially the magnificent one that spans the Luta on Main Street, Marion. Then you’ll know how to talk talk that is talk, on the subject.
Walter Sharp was obliged to raise the windmill at his mineral well ten feet higher in order to get it above the trees by which it was surrounded. His bath house demands too much water to attempt to supply it by hand.
Jake Yeck came to town Saturday with three catfish which he caught in the Cottonwood river, below Funk’s mill. The largest weighed 28 pounds and the other two 15 pounds each. Where are those fellows who claim there is no sport around Marion?