50 years ago

october 8, 1958

The Marion Warrior football fans, always a loyal lot, will follow their team to Herington Friday of this week in a motor convoy. Automobiles will line-up along Santa Fe Street in Marion facing east. The caravan will begin promptly at 7 p.m. and will have a police escort all the way with two-way radio between the front and rear of the convoy.

Margie Ann Bernhardt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bernhardt and a student at Ottawa University, was an attendant to the school’s homecoming queen Friday evening during a coronation ceremony held in the university’s Commons building.

Births at St. Luke Hospital, announced in this issue, included a boy, Robert Douglas, born Oct. 2 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Robinson; a boy, Rickey Gene, born Oct. 4 to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Just; and a girl, Nancy Carolyn, born Oct. 8 to Dr. and Mrs. Earl Wood.

Little Martha Kay Beaston was two years old last Thursday and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Beaston, celebrated the occasion with a dinner in her honor.

The front of Al and Dan’s Market in the Masonic building is being redecorated this week. Nodie Baker is doing the painting.

Miss Barbara Spachek, a sophomore at Washburn University, Topeka, is one of three young women selected for football queen candidates. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Spachek of Lincolnville.

Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Newcomer and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Muck drove to Kansas City Tuesday to attend a dealer’s show of the 1959 Chevrolet line