50 years ago
june 30, 1955
Heavy local rain and thunder storms gave spots in the county a good drenching and cooling Tuesday afternoon and evening. Weather gauge showed 1.05 inches in Marion.
John Reed Williams, outstanding Marion High School graduate of 1955, received a telegram from the Navy Department Wednesday morning to report July 6 for admission to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.
Fire, probably started by a lightning bolt about three o'clock Tuesday morning, destroyed property roughly estimated at $6,000 at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Spohn about three miles east of Tampa. In the loss was an almost new John Deere tractor, a farm pickup, welding equipment, and a large inventory of general tools. Also lost were some pigs and some wheat in a nearby shed.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Miesse announce the engagement of their daughter, Donna Claire, to Cpl. James R. Fruechting. A fall wedding is being planned.
Bob Navrat spent his vacation this week at his home north of town, helping his father, Mike Navrat, harvest. Bob is an IBM operator for the Cessna company at Wichita.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bredemeier are the parents of a baby boy, Don Alan, who weighed 8 pounds 10 ounces at birth June 28.
Dave Seifert is the latest of residents in the general Marion community who have sighted a deer wandering about. He was working a field at his farm just southeast of Marion Saturday when a deer went leisurely jumping across the nearby field.
