60 years ago

june 8, 1950

After many months, yes, years of planning, the Marion Community Hospital is about to become a reality. According to plans as they now stand, construction will be well under this year, with actual beginning possible within the next two or three months.

The Marion school board has issued formal invitations to five surrounding districts, whose schools have been closed, to seriously consider joining or consolidating with School District No. 1. These districts are Dobbs, Brown, Sunflower, Bixler, and Quarry.

Maurice Hollar and Charles Muse will go to Wichita Sunday for the week of Sunflower Boys’ state sponsored by the American Legion.

Charles W. Thompson, former lieutenant governor of Kansas and known to many in Marion County as a businessman here, died in a Topeka hospital last Thursday at the age of 83.

One of the beauty spots in Marion this spring is the rose-covered porch of Mr. and Mrs. J.G. Oblander, 129 South Freeborn. The large vines on the east side of the front porch are American Beauty roses and are laden with hundreds of deep pink blooms. On the north side are deep red Paul Scarlet roses.

Ruth Jo Willming, daughter of the Rev. Chas. B. Willming, Springville, Iowa, and Ira Penner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Penner, Bakersfield, Calif., were married June 4 at the Marion Methodist Church.