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100 years ago

may 24, 1906

Memorial Services

On Sunday, May 27th, Rev. C.W. Safford will preach the Memorial sermon at the Auditorium at 11 a.m. All churches of the city are invited to participate.

Veterans and W.R.C. will meet at the G.A.R. Hall at 10:45 o'clock, and march to the Auditorium.

Decoration Day Program

On Wednesday, May 30th, the procession will form in front of the W.R.C. Hall at 9:30 a.m. and march to the cemetery, where the G.A.R. and W.R.C. will decorate the graves of soldiers buried there. Carriages will be on hand to convey the old soldiers and W.R.C. to the cemetery and return. After the exercises at the cemetery they will return to the G.A.R. hall and break ranks for dinner.

At 1:30 p.m. the procession will again form at the G.A.R. hall and march to the stone arch bridge, where the waters will be decorated in memory of the soldiers. They will then go to the Auditorium, where the exercises will be concluded. The Memorial address will be delivered by Rev. H.C. Wharton. A chorus of 40 voices and orchestra of 12 instruments, led by O.C. Billings, will furnish music. The Marion Band will lead the procession.

COMMITTEE

Messrs Ike and Chas. Runyan very pleasantly entertained a few young people last Friday evening. The invited guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Weimer, Misses Rose Reed, Stella Owens, Mable Owens, Alice Forney, Jeraldine Forney, and Maude Baker, of McPherson, and Messrs Allen Owens and Manly Wareham, of Wichita.

A party of girls had a pleasant picnic out at Rainbow Lake last Saturday. They were Mary Chilson, Jennie Crist, Clara Ainsworth and Dora Powers.

RAVELINGS

Nameless, but not forgotten

On the Virginia hills overlooking the broad Potomac and just across from Washington lies the Arlington National Cemetery. It is a place of marvelous natural beauty, embellished by all the arts money can command. The view from the broad veranda of the Arlington House is famed the world over. In this place of solemn and wondrous beauty sleep sixteen thousand soldiers who died in the War for the Union. Beneath the sheltering branches of giant oaks rise countless noble monuments bearing names sacred in the nation's history. And like an arm motionless, stand thousands of simple head-stones in regular order and stretching away in seemingly endless lines. Everywhere are witnesses to might sacrifice, that call the heart to patriotic emotion. The spirit of deep solemnity walks the hallowed ground. And among the things that most impress the thoughtful visitor is the Monument to the Unknown Dead. It is a plain and simple but massive granite monument. Beneath this monument, in one common grave, rest the bodies of over two thousand nameless soldiers. Chiseled in the granite face are these words:

"Beneath this stone repose the bones of two thousand one hundred and eleven unknown soldiers, gathered after the war, from the fields of Bull Run and the route to the Rappahannock. Their remains could not be identified, but their names and deaths are recorded in the archives of their country, and its grateful citizens honor them as of their noble army of martyrs. May they rest in peace. September A.D., 1866."

He who can stand by that sacred mound and read those words, and feel in his soul no patriotic thrill is "fit for treason, stratagem and spoils."

It is announced from New York that scientists are daily expecting some message from Peary, who started on a polar expedition eight or ten months ago, announcing his discovery of the pole. But it probably wouldn't be wise to try to hold your breath until the message comes.

Messrs William Smith and Walter Austin were in Marion this week investigating the prospect for installing an electric lighting system.

The "Marion Highs" were beaten by the "Hutchinson Boosters" on the Marion diamond Tuesday afternoon. The score was 7 to 2. The battery for Marion was Pierce and Taylor; for Hutchinson, Hamlin and Shears. A good crowd was in attendance.

The front of the Marion Pharmacy looks fine, with a new coat of paint.

Mrs. Roy Sumner closed a successful term of school at the Brown school house last Friday. An interesting program was given Friday evening. Three pupils were awarded county diplomas. D.D. McIntosh delivered the class address.

Lost — a small black pic. Finder please return to Mrs. M.K. Parker.

Selfish Women!

We have always been told that women do their cooking and their sewing and their house work and all such things in order to please the men. But we have found out different. We have heard a number of responsible men in this town express themselves on the subject of house cleaning and without exception they vote against it. One man says, "I can't see any particular difference it makes in the looks of things only that I have to carry a match around with me after dark for a couple of weeks or so, till I get myself and the furniture relatively located." Another one says that "It's no good unless a woman does it over again every two weeks, for the house is just as dirty at the end of two weeks as it was before the ordeal. It's all foolishness, for no living man would endure such goings on every two weeks, and that's the only way for it to do any good." And so they talk. In consequence we have decided that women do it all for their own pure enjoyment and pleasure. And ah, what a pleasure!

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