125 years ago

september 18, 1885

The Record doesn’t want any of the doctors in Marion county to get into trouble, and so it publishes for the third time this section of law which will have to be obeyed by them soon, if it is obeyed in time to save their reputation and ten dollars:

Every physician or midwife practicing in the State of Kansas shall file with the county clerk of the county in which he or she lives, his or her name, age, residence, number of years of practice, school from which graduating (if any), giving name and location, date of graduation, and school of practice. And any physician or midwife failing to comply with this order on or before the first day of October 1885, shall pay a penalty of ten dollars; and ten dollars for each month thereafter during which he or she fails to comply with this rule.

The street sprinkler and the ice wagon still make their daily rounds in sunny Marion. (This item will doubtless send a chill through many of our eastern readers who are struggling along in such frigid states as New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, etc., but we can’t help it).

The members of the Marion Cornet Band wish to tender their sincere thanks to the ladies of the Methodist Ladies Aid Society, for the public oyster supper given by them, last week, to assist in purchasing instruments for the Band.

The contract for the stone work on Marion’s big three story stone hotel has been awarded to Messrs. Harper & Rhind, of this city. Work will be commenced at once.

Mrs. Dr. Flippen’s Clydesdale mare, Polly the Second, took the first money at the State Fair at Peabody. It is said that this fine animal, when only two years old, took $200 in prizes in contests with 500 other colts last year in Canada.

One of the neatest and yet most substantial cemetery fences you ever saw has recently been erected by Messrs. Harper & Rhind around the lot where rests the remains of the late Rev. J.R. Baker. The fence-posts and panels are all made of stone.

Marion schools opened Monday with the full corps of teachers and a large number of scholars in attendance. The two large houses have been “fixed up” during vacation, and so everything was in fine condition. Both large buildings are already taxed to nearly their full seating capacity. The enrollment has already reached nearly five hundred, and it looks as if the eight teachers employed will soon need assistance, and also looks as if it wouldn’t be very long till more school room will be a necessity.