60 years ago
may 2, 1946
If an appeal by H.F. Lehrer of Wichita for permission to operate a new bus line is granted, bus service through Marion will be augmented by service from Wichita to Emporia and return daily.
Miss Betty Frazier celebrated her birthday with a picnic on the lawn at her home Monday evening, April 29. Her guest included Mrs. John Edmunds Jr., Virginia and Delores Hobson, Bonnie Klein, Doris Dody, Violet and Vera Matthew and Margie Frazier.
An order to engine and trainmen restricting the speed of all Rock Island trains through Marion was issued May 1. A Rock Island attorney in Topeka called David W. Wheeler Jr., city attorney, Tuesday afternoon to protest enforcement of the ordinance. He stated adequate signals would be installed by July and asked that no action be taken until that date.
The Hubba Hubba Club, which is comprised of small girls of the town had an Easter program for their mothers Monday evening, April 22, at the home of Carol Ann Hett. Following the interesting program, Carol Ann, assisted by her mother, Mrs. Herb Hett, served delicious refreshments.
A family birthday dinner was celebrated at the Fred Hayen home on Sunday, April 28. Birthdays honored were Willard Conyers and his daughter Mary Lou, Mrs. Clyde Richmond, Timmy Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, Louise Conyers, and Mrs. Fred Hayen and son Fritz.
A slab of limestone from the Kansas Capitol building is on its way to Brisbane, Australia, to become part of the American section of "Anzac House," Australian national war memorial building. The director of the Australian project requested Governor Schoeppel send the Kansas Stone for inclusion on the walls of "Anzac House" as a memorial to those Kansans killed in action "with their final resting place in Australia."
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bredemeier and daughters, Nova and Beverly, are moving this week to Norborne, Mo., where he will be manager of the new alfalfa dehydrating plant for the W.J. Small Co.
