100 years ago
march 15, 1906
Biesemeyer-Bluhm
Thursday afternoon, March 8th, at the German Methodist church, the wedding bells rang out their glad refrain announcing the marriage of Mr. Wm. Biesemeyer and Miss Minnie Bluhm, Rev. Tanner officiating. The groom is an excellent Christian young man who has resided near Canada for some time. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.F.W. Bluhm and has grown to womanhood near Canada. She possesses a fine Christian character. After the ceremony at the church the guest repaired to the home of the bride, where a bountiful supper was served. The boys treated the happy couple with a fine assortment of racket and at a late hour all departed wishing the happy couple a long and prosperous wedded life. Many beautiful and useful presents were received. The young people will be at home to their friends about March 20th on the Kannengiesser farm northwest of Canada.
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Quite a party of Marion county people left over the Santa Fe last Monday for California to join the colony which is located at San Luis Obispo. The party consisted of Geo. Powell and wife, Joe Marler and family, Sherman Marler and family, Rhyney Kleinhammer and family and Chas. Dody. They go to the same place where Dave Dody, Dave Powell and others from this county are located. Dave Powell, who left last week, writes that he arrived safely and is pleased with the country. San Luis Obispo is in southern California about two hundred and fifty miles from Los Angeles. The party expects to reach their destination tomorrow.
The W.W. Loveless & Sons entertained a most pleasant party Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Loveless in compliment to the clerks and their wives. The new home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Loveless was open throughout and a peanut hunt invited the guests to a complete inspection of all the conveniences of the splendid house. Refreshments were served in three courses and a marshmallow roast followed. The guests were: Anna Blackburn, Bertha Ewing, W.J. Lyon, Solomon Socolofsky, Walter Bown, Gertrude Bown, Lydia Sommers, Dollie Harrison, Lulu Bissey, Mable Taylor, Bertha Parker, Roy Myers, N.S. Myers, Jake Dahlinger, Fred Sievers, Karl Socolofsky, Harry McFadden, Charley Niederhauser, Lou Wakefield, Jesse West, Willie Wakefield, Fred Coburn, Father Niederhauser and Sidney Holder.
The men on J.W. Moore's ranch took the ranch pack of hounds last week, mounted their ponies, and succeeded in catching twenty-seven rabbits in one hour.
Odle and Blurton are making preparations to move their Star Café to the Schoneman building. They will use the room now occupied by Robert Florer's "Smoke House." The room will be enlarged by moving the stairway farther west in the building. Robert Florer will move his establishment to the building west of McIntosh's meat market.
Mrs. Dr. Smith has seventy-one new incubator chicks just hatched this week.
C.E. Wells, the telephone man, has recently closed a deal with a big Chicago firm to handle a contrivance used in the stringing of telephone wires, of which he is the inventor. The idea covered by the patent, is technically known as a method of "transposition" — being an improved method of transposing the two wires in a metallic circuit at regular distances along the line to prevent disturbance of the current from induction from other telephone or telegraph wires, which run parallel. That the idea is a good one may be judged from the fact that the contract closed with the Chicago firm guarantees a royalty to Mr. Wells approximating one thousand dollars a year.
The Christian church being torn up on account of the building which is in progress, church services will be held next Sunday in the Court room.
Sarah Bernhardt and her company will give a performance at Wichita sometime early in April, and the Rock Island has agreed to make a rate for the occasion of one and one-third fare for a party of from twenty-five to fifty, or one fare for a party of fifty or more.
