100 years ago
NOVEMBER 24, 1904 — Lost Springs has incorporated as a city of the third class. The election will be held November 30th when the following ticket, the only one in the field, will go through with a whoop: Mayor, E.P. Mowrer; Councilmen, J.A. Ostberg, J.F. Shaner, C.W. Templeton, Geo. G. Shirk, M.M. Mastin; Police Judge, W.H. Mott.
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Slaymakers livery barn was burned early last Saturday morning. Nineteen head of horses, the livery stock and a large quantity of hay and feed were lost in the fire. The night man barely escaped. There was little insurance, and the loss, about $7000, we understand, is a severe blow to the proprietors.
Marion's Main Street is assuming a metropolitan aspect. Let the good work go on.
The improvements upon the school heating plants have been completed. New radiators have been installed, new and larger lead pipes put in, old and worn parts taken out and replaced with new, the boiler and furnaces thoroughly overhauled and repaired, every part thoroughly cleaned and painted, and all pipes have been covered with asbestos and mineral wood covering. The whole work has been under the supervision of A.H. Nooney & Company of Topeka. Mr. Al Nooney has been here in person superintending the work and has laid himself out on this job, because of his desire to sustain his excellent reputation for fine work in this line, and also because he had an additional incentive, his pride in giving his old town an A-1 job. The work has been inspected by the board and approved. The plants are operating splendidly and heating the buildings with a very low pressure of steam.
The foundation of the new auditorium is finished and the work of laying the walls has begun. Work will be pushed rapidly now if the weather continues as it has been the past week.
The first entertainment in the lecture course given last Saturday evening at the Baptist Church was an excellent opening and thoroughly enjoyed by the large audience. The Wesleyans' possess splendid voices excellently trained and their music is melody. They gave new life and beauty to the old familiar songs by their rendering of them. Miss Boynton, reader and impersonator, is natural in delivery and strong in her interpretation and recitation. The company generously responded to many enthusiastic encores.
Our band gave a fine open air concert on the street last Friday afternoon. They played several new pieces in fine style. Our band is all right.
T.C. Sumner, one of the pioneers of Marion county, is now located near Eugene, Oregon, on a fruit farm of twenty-three acres. We have read a letter of his to his friend, J.E. Evans in which he gave a very interesting and glowing description of the country in which he has decided to make his future home. We are sorry to know that he has decided to leave Marion county permanently, for one of the best men as a citizen and neighbor that any country ever had in it is the same "Tom" Sumner. Here's hoping he has abundant success in his new home.
The Dean building is assuming massive proportions, the second story walls are rapidly rising. The building is going to be a beauty and a great ornament to the town. Every visitor becomes an interested spectator of the new building material being used in its construction.
The Young Peoples Societies of the various churches of Marion will hold a union Thanksgiving service at the M.E. Church Sunday evening at 6:15 o'clock. Sheldon's orchestra will accompany the singing and also render two instrumental selections. A vocal duet by Misses Mabel Taylor and Inez Ellis is also a feature of the meeting worth coming to hear. The invitation to attend this meeting is extended to everybody both young and old. Phil E. Zimmerman, leader. There will not be Bibles enough to go around unless you bring yours.
Mr. Wm. C. Lilley, of Pittsburgh, Penn., is in the city visiting his brother, County Treasurer, J.C. Lilley. Mr. Lilley is making his first trip to Kansas, and thoroughly enjoying our wide expanse of prairies and "out of doors." He is wonderfully pleased with a buggy ride of fifty-three miles that he took with his brother John, from Burns to Wilsey, where another brother, Robert, lives. He is a pleasant gentleman to meet and a very agreeable conversationalist. The four are planning a reunion, the first in twenty-five years, at the home of Joe, to-day. Mr. Lilley will go on to Denver from here and will then return to his home city. He is just closing out his business and retiring from an interest in one of the greatest window glass factories in the United States.
Loveless & Sons paid over $25.00, this week, for eight turkeys. One weighed forty pounds and brought over $5.
(Copied by Joan Meyer from the 1904 microfilm files of the Marion Record.)
