100 years ago
july 19, 1906
As we escaped injury from last week's story about the answers made to questions in the recent teachers' examination, we venture to try it again. Here are a few more of the answers turned in:
"f.o.b." means fob, a watch chain.
"et al" is an abbreviations for eternal.
The sewing machine was invented by Ed Howe.
Hogs is the principal natural resource of Kansas.
Last week we told about a man near Lost Springs whose wheat, just harvested and threshed, had turned out thirty-five bushels to the acre. Since then we have heard indirectly of a field several miles east of town that averaged forty bushels to the acre. But we haven't the man's name and that may be a mistake. Come in and tell us, or write us, about the biggest yield per acre that you know about.
To the man reporting the largest yield to the acre, in Marion county, within the next month, we will give a year's subscription to the RECORD.
Monday's K.C. papers had an interview with Fay Moulton, the formerly of Marion boy who has just returned from Athens, where he participated in some of the events in the Olympic games. Moulton caught the mumps, as did many others of the athletes in the party of Americans, just before they reached Athens. Consequently he was handicapped by difficult breathing in the races. He finished second in the 100 meter race.
A four-foot cement sidewalk is to be laid along the west side of the Valley school grounds, and a six-foot walk from the entrance to the school house steps.
A number of Marion people took advantage of the excursion rate to Salina last Sunday to attend the Chautauqua. A large number had planned to go but the rain Sunday morning kept many from going. The crowd from here consisted, as far as we have been able to get the names, of Misses Vinnie Wible, Zoe Marner, Lucy Mollohan and Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Immer and Omer Marner, Ralph Bryan, Al Richardson, Roy Williams and Wm. Edmunds.
Monday afternoon Daisy Wible celebrated her eleventh birthday anniversary with a party to which a number of her little friends were invited.
Mr. Frank Soyez, an old and well respected citizen of Marion County died at his home near Youngtown Monday of last week. Mr. Soyez was nearly eighty-eight years old. He came to this country in 1853. He came to Kansas in 1871 and to Marion county in 1872, where he resided until his death. He leaves a wife, three sons and two daughters. All the children but one son, who lives in Manhattan, live in this county. The family ask us to express in the RECORD their appreciation for all the kindnesses shown by many during the illness and at the death of the aged husband and father. The funeral was held on Wednesday, and interment made in the Catholic cemetery at Florence.
The City Laundry has a fine new delivery wagon, which was made for them by Reuben Bates.
The applications by the two Hillsboro druggists for permits to sell intoxicating liquors for medical purposes were heard Monday by Probate Judge Vaughn. The cases were hotly contested. Probably twenty-five people were down from Hillsboro to protest against the permits being granted. A petition was presented by the druggists and a signed remonstrance by the opposition. Judge Vaughn declined to grant the permits. There are now no druggists' liquor permits in Marion county.
The Rock Island will run a special excursion train to Kansas City on Sunday, July 22nd. The fare for the round trip will be $2.50.
