100 years ago
september 21, 1905
The New Auditorium will be opened October 9, 10, and 11 by the Lockes, one of the best attractions of their class on the road. The Board of Directors have brought this show for the three nights, and pay the price for same without reference to the receipts so that when you buy your ticket, your money goes directly for the benefit of the Auditorium, and the money so taken in will be used to pay for the chairs. The chairs are being put in this week and are in harmony with the building. It is hoped that our people will be willing to extend a very liberal patronage that the seats may be paid for.
High School Notes
Our total enrollment is 71.
Thirty of the Freshmen have elected Latin.
The two literary societies have chosen new members from the Freshman class, elected officers, and are ready for the year's work.
The electric bells put in by Earl Minton and Roscoe King, for the Physics class, are a much needed improvement.
Edgar Monninger of Dickinson County has returned, and brings with him his sister, who will enter the Freshman class.
The Excelsior Society elected the following officers: Chas. Brooker, President; Elfie Dean, Secretary; Willard Tidyman. Treasurer. The Zenith elected Jerome McIntosh, President; Chester Evans, Vice President; Pearl Kuhn, Secretary and Treasurer. The Zenith will give the first program, Friday, September 29th.
We are indebted to George W. Martin, of Topeka, for Volumes VII and VIII of the Kansas Historical Collections.
The music class under the able direction of Miss Harris has already accomplished much. The voices have been tested and classified and one chorus is ready for rendition.
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From present indications it looks as though Marion would have to go through another winter without street lights of any kind. It does seem strange, with all the enterprise and business ability that it conceded to the citizens of this city, that there can not be some scheme put on foot to give us street lights. Can't the Commercial Club take hold of this matter and say, "let there be light?"
There are three trees in Central Park to which we would like to call the attention of those who love the beautiful in nature. They are English lindens, the only ones we believe in the county. They are as near alike as three peas in a pod, and for natural symmetrical beauty — never having been trimmed or pruned — would be hard to find their equal in any of the larger city parks.
The town people who wonder why they have to pay so much for poultry now-a-days can find a ready answer for part of it anyway in the fact that for six days last week the Marion Poultry Co. dressed and shipped over a thousand chickens a day.
The appraisers appointed to condemn and appraise the property necessary for the site for the new court house, vix; RT. Battey, of Florence, Thomas Osborn, of Peabody, and H. Beck, of Hillsboro, met Monday and after examining the properties thoroughly, made the following awards: Geo. D. Scott, $2,300; M. Grimes, $800.
All honor to the Marion boys! The opportunity for another charivari passed without any boisterous demonstration last week.
For several weeks the weather has been cloudy, with more or less rain every day. Monday evening the wind shifted to the north, and by morning it was almost cold enough for frost. And then the sunshine, the glorious sunshine, came and once more both nature and humanity smiled and soon forgot the clouds of the past.
Two Marion young men who recently took out marriage licenses, each took out another license last week — hunter's licenses, however.
