100 years ago
december 7,1905
Complete county rural mail service will be installed in Marion county on Dec. 15th. Marion will have seven rural routes. If not already a patron of a route, leave your name and number of your route at the P.O. before Dec. 15. Attention is called to the fact that you must have an approved box or mail cannot be delivered to you.
Soldier Boys' Thanksgiving
United State's troops — 2nd Artillery Battery — camped on the ball-ground Thanksgiving Day. They were under the command of Lieutenants Hand and Gardner, and were on their way from Fort Sill to Fort Riley — a four hundred mile tramp. They left Ft. Sill Nov. 2nd and reached Ft. Riley last Sunday. When they were in Wichita the officers made arrangements to have a lot of special provisions — pies, etc. forwarded in time to reach Marion on Thanksgiving and the men were given a special "spread."
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A Leddie Bit Chilly
A couple of fellows went hunting on Thanksgiving. Oh, well, what's the use protecting them — their names are Frank Schmersey and J.M. Padgett — don't tell who told you. One of them saw a squirrel on a tree near the river and went around the tree to chase the squirrel out where he could get a shot at it. He stepped on an old root of a tree, the root broke and hunter, gun and all descended more or less rapidly into the river below. Get wet? — slightly. After wringing the ice water from his clothes and fishing the gun out of the river the gay hunter hiked for more temperate quarters. Which one of the fellows was it, did you inquire? Well is seems we didn't say. Suppose you ask 'em.
A Fine Family Gathering
A delightful family gathering took place on Thanksgiving Day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.K. Williams. All the children and grandchildren were there to eat Turkey together and to enjoy the fine occasion. Forty-four people sat down to a Thanksgiving dinner "what you read about." There are twenty-three grandchildren — five babies — and all were there. They were seated at one table and it was a sight that the grandparents will not soon forget. The children are Fred Williams, John Williams, June Williams, George Williams, of Chase county, Mrs. D.W. Wheeler and Miss Mary Williams. The "children-in-law" also were all there, as were Mrs. Williams' brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Reed, of Sioux City, Iowa, Mr. Williams' sister, Mrs. Reynolds and daughter, of Bedford, Ind., and Mr. Williams' sister-in-law, Mrs. Chris Williams, of Cedar Point. Such gatherings do not come very often along the pathway of life and they are the sort that get down pretty close to people's feelin's.
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Report of School District No. 60 for the month ending Dec. 1st. Total number enrolled, 66. Average daily attendance, 56. No cases of tardiness. Those neither absent nor tardy: Alma Stenzel, Lettie Kline, Emma Rupp, Earl Siebert, Earl Thompson, Adolph Riesen, Menno Funk, Ida Burkholder, Mary Funk, Alice Siebert, Wesley Siebert, Glenn Kline, Benjamin Stenzel, John Mastin, Louis Robertson, Walter Rupp, Theodore Funk, Karl Matz, Willie Matz, Henry Goertz, Alvin Funk, Christine Robertson, Edna Rupp, Lizzie Riesen, Maude Kreutziger, Annie Goosen, Mary Robertson, Lizzie Funk, Helen Giesbrecht, Inez Thompson, Frank Balzer, Mabel Bluhm, Nora Bluhm, Leonard Stenzel, and Maybelle Thompson.
Jno. P. Wymer, Prin.
E. Collier, Primary.
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Rev. Sievers, who will be the pastor of the German Baptist church here after Jan. 1st, is in attendance at the Young People's convention. He comes here from St, Louis.
There will be a pie and necktie social at the Aulne school house Friday evening, Dec. 13th. Every lady is requested to bring two neckties and a pie. Everybody invited to attend.
Steve Winchester has laid the foundation for a new ice house where the old one stood, above Pierce's mill-dam.
