125 years ago

may 14, 1886

The citizens of Marion county who believe it good policy to organize a third political party in this state, to advance the cause of prohibition, will hold a county mass meeting in this city next Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock to organize in this county.

Mr. F.W. Drake sold to Brewerton & Giddings, Marion, Kas., for $2,000 his young imported three-year-old Cleveland bay stallion, “Ainderby Boy.” The above gentlemen have large stock interests in Marion county, and in the purchase of this horse have used rare judgment. We are informed the Mr. Giddings has just returned from a trip to Illinois and Iowa in quest of a Cleveland bay, and could not find one that suited him as well for the money. This is a fine animal and we are proud to record the addition of such blood to the stock interest of Marion county.

Prof. Donaldson has constructed telephonic connection between his office and residence, probably a half mile distant from each other This is not only a convenience to the parties interested, but it is another evidence that Marion is no longer a country village, but a veritable city.

The RECORD’S January prediction as to this year’s building boom in Marion is being more than fulfilled.

Mr. Phelan, of Florence, has samples of marbleized slate from which parties wanting mantles can select with much better satisfaction than by mere description of designs. They are handsome.

Taylor Riddle’s youngest child, a little boy, fell off the porch at home Wednesday afternoon and broke his right arm between the wrist and elbow. Dr. Hannaford fixed the little unfortunate broken limb and he will soon be all right.

A couple of Italians with a trained bear, who are “doing” Kansas overland, held forth on the streets of Marion last Friday, to the amusement of crowds of people. We understand that at Lehigh a drunken fellow, who foolishly accepted their banter to wrestle with bruin, and was badly worsted, of course, was so enraged at the owners of the beast that he followed them out of town with a pistol and fired at them, the ball singing the whiskers of one of the men. It is said the infuriated disciple of Bacchus would have fired other shots with perhaps fatal effect but for the interference of citizens. The fellow was arrested, but what was the result of his trail we do not know.

A fearful hail storm swept across Kansas last week, from northwest to northeast, just missing this county. The Herington, Dickinson county, Tribune says of it in that section: “There was not a single pane of glass left in the north windows of a single house in town and all were flooded with hail, but the greatest loss was visited upon our great-hearted city father, M.R. Herington, whose loss in hogs and calves will reach perhaps $3,000, about 100 hogs having been swept away and about fifty calves killed in the pasture, besides this he lost heavily in other ways.”