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35 years ago

OCTOBER 2, 1969

The Marion County Record centennial birthday party last Friday attracted over 200 people who toured the publishing plant and offices, enjoyed refreshments, and joined in the festivities of the occasion.

The 1919 graduating class of Marion High School held a reunion Old Settlers' Day observing the 50th anniversary of their high school commencement. Five of the 18 members were present. They were Marion Rankin McFarland, Broder Williamson, Alberta Pantle, Mercil Thompson Wight, and Jewell Amick. The group met in the park and had lunch together at a table reserved by the Community Guild. After 3 p.m. they were guests in the new home of Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Wight for an informal session of reminiscing, looking at mementos and souvenirs of school days, and taking pictures.

Bob Hoover, Marion, is presently attending a two week training school at Lincoln, Nebraska. The engineering course on erosion control is conducted by the Soil Conservation Service of the Department of Agriculture.

Mrs. Jon Thole, Mrs. Dean Batt, Mrs. John Loomis, Mrs. Alex H. Case, Mrs. Homer Reinke, and Mrs. Roger W. Hannaford attended the P.E.O. reciprocity luncheon at Halstead last Tuesday.

According to his wife, Charlotte Hoffner, Lance Corporal Larry Hoffner of Marion has been decorated by the South Vietnam government with one of their highest military honors. He received the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry July 1 for outstanding and heroic observation, leadership, and action as a squad leader and machine gunner in the face of the enemy.

Nodie Baker, age 95, received recognition as the oldest settler attending the 1969 Old Settlers' Day events Saturday. He not only attended, but played his tuba in the Rube Band, as he has done for so many years. Ernest Oyer of Edmonds, Washington, came the farthest distance. Oyer was a mail carrier while living here. He and his wife were guests of the Ira Turners.

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