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A fine addition to the business section of Marion is being started today. Forms are being set for the foundation of the new 100x110 foot structure to house the Badger Lumber Company on the same location on South 4th Street which it now occupies. The present buildings, constructed in 1887, are to be torn down and replaced by a business place all under one roof.
June seems determined to keep up with the record set in the three months previous Eleven days this month rain has fallen, although the total amount is particularly alarming. The fall to date has been spaced sufficiently far apart to avoid destructive high water.
Fifteen Boy Scouts, together with scoutmaster Virgil Wiebe, assistant scoutmaster Homer Stiller and junior assistant scoutmaster Forest Kelsey, will leave June 29 for Herington Lake to set up their campsite for summer camp. Investiture service for new Scouts Don Burkholder, Teddy Heath, Myron Jantz, Marvin Kline, Billy McKibbin, Joe Soyez and Marvin Wunsch will be held Tuesday evening with Rev. S.D. Hower assisting.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Richardson were complimented at a family picnic at the Wolf cabin last Thursday evening to celebrate their 41st wedding anniversary. Guests were Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bryan of DeLong Florida, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Siebert and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Wolf and Sarabel.
Jeaneen Brose, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Brose received the Shark badge, highest swimming award at Camp Wood, Elmdale, last week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Geis of the Aulne community entertained the children and mothers of their community at the Marion park June 16 in honor of their daughter, Launa Lou's seventh birthday. Those there were Mrs. Edna Schmidt and boys, Mrs. Gladys Balzer and children, Mrs. Abe Seibel and girls, all of Newton, Mrs. Jonas Suderman, Karen, Gilbert and Marilynn, Mrs. Andrew Seibel, Bobby and Joyce, Mrs. J.L. Fruechting, Dwight and Duane, Mrs. Lloyd Darrow, Betty and Bonnie Harder, Willard Hett, Johnny Geis, and Mrs. Lee Winkley, Kenneth and Ailene.
