50 years ago
NOVEMBER 25, 1954
Marion High School's 1954 Homecoming Queen is Ann Davies, senior, talented and popular daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Davies. Her attendants were Rose Marie Holub, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Holub, and Anita Kline, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Kline.
Nodie Baker completed the new paint job on the exterior of the Christian Church last week. This is another fine improvement to the appearance of our city. The entire job of painting was done by Mr. Baker.
Two Marion High School football players are being considered for nomination to the annual "all state" football team this year. They are John Williams from the line and Jerry Richards from the backfield.
Jean Morse asked a number of friends to come to her birthday party Saturday afternoon. The girls had a fine time playing games and enjoying refreshments served by Jean's mother, Mrs. Roger Morse. Invited guests included Mary Melton, Sidney Hume, Betty Jean Tipton, Rose Marie Loveless, Mary Stevens, Jo Ellen Atherton, Helen and Charlotte Langley, Helen Olsen, Judy Richards, Evelyn Hedrick, Anita Schlehuber and Virginia Dody.
Marion Navrat of Marion has been cast in the role of Bob Crachit for Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," which will be presented at Emporia State Teachers College four times in mid-December.
To model clothes for the biggest retailer of western clothes in the United States was the privilege of a former Marion girl during the recent Arizona State Fair at Phoenix. Marilyn Reh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abe Reh, went to Prescott, Arizona, soon after graduating from high school last spring and has a position there with a designer and manufacturer of western clothes. Marilyn plans to visit her parents here in Marion during the Christmas holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hannaford and baby of Emporia were weekend gusts of his mother, Mrs. Norma Hannaford.
