MEMORIES: 100 years ago
MARION'S FOURTH OF JULY
The Preliminary Steps have been taken and the Big Time is Assured
All Roads Lead to Marion
The mass meeting held at the courthouse last Friday night was attended by the men who know how and who do things, and with one accord laid the foundation for a day and night crowded full of entertainment for the big celebration on the Fourth of July. W.H. Carpenter was made chairman of the meeting.
The main work of this meeting was to appoint an executive committee into whose hands should be placed the management of the celebration. The committeemen are as follows: Rosse Case, C.H. Thompson, I.E. Myers, Karl Ehrlich, A.S. Quisenberry, Brown Corby, W.W. Loveless, and T.O. Kelley. This committee held a meeting on Monday evening and appointed W.H. Carpenter, C.C. Minton and Rosse Case. This committee will report to the executive committee Friday night their success as a financial committee.
The citizens are unanimously in favor of having entertainment for the day and a big fireworks display for the evening and all plans are working out nicely.
Program complete next week.
Severely Burned
Rev. D.A. Heck, pastor of the Free Methodist church, was severely burned last Sunday night just before services were to begin at the church.
The church is lighted with gasoline pressure lamps and for convenience one of these was suspended from the ceiling over the pulpit. The explosion occurred as the services were about to begin. Rev. Heck was severely burned about the head and face and the right side of his body. Two of the front seats were partially burned as was also the carpet.
The injuries were given immediate attention and it is hope the burns are not deep enough to cause scars. Rev. Heck has had a great deal of sickness in his family since arriving in Marion a year ago and it is hoped this will be the last.
The members of the church as well as other friends have stood by him nobly through it all. They are loyal to the core.
The Grim Reaper
Miss Elizabeth Goertz, one of the popular young ladies of Wilson township, was called to the great beyond, last Wednesday, May 20. She was ill but a short time, her last sickness being at the home of her sister, Mrs. Claude Honn at Aulne. She was born August 27, 1888 in Wilson township; funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Kliphardt, interment in Canada cemetery, Saturday, May 23. Had not sickness and death intervened she would soon have been the bride of Milton Siebert. The deceased leaves a mother, one brother and five sisters. The family has the sympathy of a large circle of friends.
Consolidated Schools for Aulne
In all probability Aulne will soon have a consolidated school which means that districts 13-14-16-17-19-55 will be housed in one building and instead of maintaining six schools affording inferior advantages as compared with the consolidated, will have a large, well equipped building, wherein will be given a complete training in the grades and a superb high school course. In other words, the country districts pool their school valuations and secure for their children advantages heretofore only found in the larger towns.
Friday night, May 15, Assistant State Superintendent C.C. Starr of Topeka addressed a meeting at Aulne with this purpose in view.
Tuesday night following, J.A. Ray and D.D. McIntosh addressed a meeting of school patrons at the same place. At the meetings the consolidated schools idea was unanimous and Aulne will soon hold an election to settle the matter, notices having been posted.
Meetings to discuss the matter were held at No. 55 Saturday night, No. 19 Monday night, No. 14 Wednesday night and No. 16 Thursday night.
Aulne is the logical center for the building. The plan gives the school a valuation under the old law to draw support from of $230,000 and about $1,125,000 under the new.
Prof. J.A. Ray is much interested in the subject of consolidation of schools and can back up his arguments with results.
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All Marion will attend the exercises of the high school graduating class at the auditorium tonight. The class is composed of the following: Miss Fae Paddock, Lawrence Kelley, Gillies Hodge, Harry Rogers, Wallace Magathan, Ross Miller, Chester Evans and William Burkholder.
Cherries are ripe and home grown strawberries are on the market.
Next Tuesday, Miss Eva Bryan, Miss Gladys Corby and Miss Pearl Kuhn start for Illinois towns for a visit of several weeks. Miss Bryan will visit at Alton and Decatur, Miss Gladys at Highland and Springfield, and Miss Pearl at Petersburg.
Edith Greer, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Greer, while skating on her roller skates in the upper hall of her home, fell through a window, to the ground. She was rendered unconscious for a few minutes, but did not sustain any serious injuries.
Messrs. Fred Coburn and Willard Keller have established a clothes pressing and cleaning establishment in room 5 over Loveless' store. The boys have already worked up a good business.
Jerry Forney has had as many "close calls" as any man in town, not to have received serious injury. The other afternoon he was preparing to move a house on south Third street, and something going wrong with the support, the building settled across his legs below the knees. But the ground was soft and he escaped serious injury.
The Ladies' Country club will give a social at the Wren schoolhouse Friday night. Ice cream, cake and strawberries will be served. Everybody invited to attend.
