100 years ago
november 23, 1905
Postmaster Billings has been having a lot of work done at the Post Office this week, to meet the demand for more room. Complete rural service for Marion county will be installed the fifteenth of next month and three additional routes out of Marion will be started at that time. Marion will then have seven rural carriers. The partition in the rear of the Post Office has been removed and most of the large room formerly occupied by Judge Billings added to the Post Office room. Judge Billings will have his office in a smaller room in the east end of the old room. This will largely increase the Post Office facilities and will expedite the work of the office.
John Clarkson has sold the City Laundry to E.E. Lorenz. Mr. Lorenz states that he has a first class laundry man coming and that by next week he will be ready for business. Incidentally, the City Laundry is a home institution and should receive the Marion patronage.
A large audience gathered at the Auditorium last Friday evening to hear the lecture by Captain Hobson. The attendance was complimentary alike to the speaker and the town. It is a great message that Captain Hobson brings to the American people. In a most impressive manner he points out the duty of the citizen to the nation and of the nation to the world. The lecture is redolent with high patriotism and far reaching in its grasp. It is an eloquent plea for peace and places at America's door the duty of assuming the great work of helping to preserve the peace of the world. Its call is away from a mere selfish national life and to a world-wide plane of altruism. It is a lofty interpretation of America's mission. Naturally enough, there is some difference of opinion expressed as to the tenability of some of the propositions advanced by the lecturer but it is agreed that he is a speaker of pleasing and forceful personality and of far more than ordinary power. In the opinion of the writer, it was a great lecture.
Dr. B. Brunner, a friend of Dr. R.C. Smith, has located in Marion, and will occupy the rooms recently vacated by Dr. Hannaford. He comes from New York where he has been taking post graduate work in medicine. Prior to that he was located at Westmoreland, Kansas.
Mr. A.E. Case says that six of the largest ears of white corn he ever saw were left at his office the other day by Peter Fisch. One ear weighs about one and one-half pounds. The corn was grown by Mr. Fisch on his farm one mile north of Marion.
The Ladies Aid Society of the M.E. church will give a Thanksgiving dinner and a Fair one door west of McIntosh's meat market. In connection with the dinner and Fair they will have the Ladies Home Journal Booths in which the ladies will take subscriptions for the Ladies Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post. All the ladies that have articles for the Fair will please send them to this room on Wednesday of next week, the day before Thanksgiving. Come one, come all.
Rosse Case would like the fellow who borrowed his post auger to tell him where it is, so he can go and get it. Rosse would like to use it Monday and will return it.
According to an opinion given Wednesday by the attorney general's office, restaurant keepers cannot serve quail on toast to their customers nor can they sell any birds or game that are protected under the game law passed by the last legislature, even though they may have killed the game themselves. The law provides that all selling or bartering of game protected under the new law is illegal, even though the game to be sold may have been killed by an authorized hunter and in a lawful manner.
