100 years ago
july 5, 1906
A Great Game
One of the fastest baseball games ever played on the Marion diamond was played on the 4th. (You don't have to believe this if you don't want to). The game was between two aggregations of Marion professionals, with Hauser and Constant, and Wells and Corby for batteries. We should really exclude everything else and devote the whole issue to this game, but have perhaps indefensibly decided not to do so. The game was won in the last half of the ninth inning, largely as the result of a brilliant double-play by Albert Downes. Other phenomenal plays were Herbert Thorp's broad jump — leaning so far backward that he fell forward — and Rosse Cases' slide for a white rag in the path between 3rd and home plate and his wild run after a foul ball. The score was 19 to 21. The Wells and Corby gang are doing the crowing.
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Mrs. Charles Thompson had as guests at 12 o'clock dinner Friday: Mrs. J.N. Rogers, Mrs. Lena Rogers Mowry of Denver, Colo., Miss Minnie Wilson of Peabody, Mrs. Ferd Funk, Mrs. Wm. Jolly and Mrs. C.C. Jones.
Schultz-Ehrlich
Married at the home of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ehrlich, south of Marion, Mr. Asael Ehrlich and Miss Anna Schultz, Rev. John Sievers, of the German Baptist church, officiating. After the ceremony a bountiful supper was served, and after spending a most pleasant evening the happy couple left for a trip to Colorado Springs, on the midnight train. Quite a crowd having gathered at the depot to see that they got started right and wish them a safe and pleasant journey.
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Miss Sadie Keller and Miss Clara Kable were each the recipient of a beautiful gold watch the other day — the gift of Postmaster O.C. Billings upon his return from Salt Lake City, as an expression of appreciation of their faithful and efficient management of the Post-office during his absence, and especially during the flood.
Terrible Accident
Mrs. Bart Sanders was burned to death by a coal oil explosion at her home near Peabody last Thursday morning.
Mr. Sanders had been ill the night before and Mrs. Sanders went down to make the fire Thursday morning. She evidently carried a large coal oil can to the stove to pour in some oil when the explosion took place. The first Mr. Sanders knew of the fire was when he smelled the smoke upstairs. He ran down and found the house full of smoke and the inside of the kitchen on fire. He did not see his wife and went to work to put out the fire. As soon as he had it extinguished he went outdoors to find her, thinking that she was out feeding the chickens. He did not find her and came back to the house, where he found her in the front room on the couch with her clothes completely burned off and her body terribly burned. The body was kept, awaiting the arrival of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Honn of Oregon, to attend the funeral. The many friends of Mr. Sanders extend their deepest sympathy in this dark hour.
Recipes
Baked Apples
Take a whole apple and remove the core. Scrape part of the pulp out, mix with chopped English walnuts, sweeten, sprinkle with a little cinnamon and bake. Serve with whipped cream.
Mrs. Wm. Bradbury
Pickled Peaches
Take 7 pounds of sugar, 1 quart of vinegar and cook to a syrup. Add 20 pounds of peaches, stick a clove in each peach. Put cinnamon and allspice in a sack and boil it in the syrup. Boil peaches in the syrup till tender, put them in cans, pour syrup over them and seal.
Mrs. Geo. Buckley
Unfermented Grape or Berry Juice
To half a gallon of grapes or berries add 1 pint of water and sugar to taste. Let boil well, strain off and while hot seal up. If cherries are used, half the quantity of water is sufficient.
Mrs. James Hoch
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Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hauser are the parents of a boy, born on July 4th.
Harry Mason and little son, Howard, came up to spend the Fourth. Mrs. Will Hannaford's little boy, Algernon, returned with them to Alva, Okla., for a visit.
The finder of a package containing half dozen bottles of medicine will please call at this office for name of owner, who will give a reward.
