125 years ago

june 11, 1886

A New Addition to Marion

We have seen the plat of the new addition to Marion, which will be known as the “Brewerton and Morris additions.” It comprises twenty acres, laid off in 50x150 foot lots, and lies just east of Mr. McIntosh’s home premises on the hill, on Grand Avenue. Messrs. Brewerton & Morris propose to boom this addition, and as it is finely located and “lays” well, we predict lots of will “go off” like the traditional hot cakes.

A Foundry

Having read in the RECORD that among other things Marion needs a foundry, Mr. M.M. Hall, who has been connected with a foundry for several years in McPherson, came over Monday to look the field over, and interview some of our citizens on the subject. No definite arrangements have been made, but we expect soon to record the acquisition of an iron foundry to our business enterprise, with Mr. Hall in charge. There is certainly a fine opening here for a foundry, and we propose to continue hammering away till this need of the town is supplied.

New houses are springing up like magic all over Marion. Even this great boomer is compelled to acknowledge that it can’t keep “run” of the boom.

Mud Creek post office in this county has been discontinued. If it is ever re-established, we want it called Luta post office. Do you hear, you fellows up there?

Somebody took a brass ornament from an iron bedstead in front of A.D. Billings & Co’s furniture store Wednesday. If it was an act of meanness, it was mean, and if it was a joke, it was a poor one.

Mr. Buchanan has torn down the old calaboose and is erecting a nice residence on its site. George Reynolds is using the mammoth stone, of which the calaboose was constructed, in the foundation and thinks it will be about the best foundation in the city.

Will Bates fired up his new oven and baked his first bread Wednesday.

The oldest man in Centre township is Mr. Aliff Rice, aged eighty-three. Messrs. Roger Hannaford and Elkanah Hutchinson follow close behind each having attained the age of eighty-two. The RECORD takes off its hat to them, and trusts the western horizon of their lives may ever remain cloudless, and that their last days may be their best.

The Whipple school “winds up” the term with a picnic, tomorrow.

A correspondent writes us correcting a mistake we persist in making, of locating Mr. Isaac Pavey in Grant township. He lives in Centre township.

Several capitalists from Decatur, Mich., have been in town this week looking up a location for a bank. Marion’s fame as a booming business center is spreading all around.

The ice cream and strawberry social given by the Christian ladies in the Rink last Friday night, was quite well attended and netted these worthy workers a snug little sum.