60 years ago
august 1, 1946
Another new business opens in Marion this week with the announcement by George Helmer that his service station at the east side of town on Highway 50N and 77 is now in operation..
Carl Suenran of the State Fish and Game Department was in and around Marion the past week restocking the countryside with young quail and pheasant, 250 each of the two game birds were put out in coveys, scattered all over the area.
The Cottonwood Valley Saddle Horse Association appeared at the Canton celebration last Thursday and carried off top honors in the saddle horse department. Fifty-one out of the 132 horses were from the local organization and more than half of the 20 designated best horses were owned by CVSHA members.
Mr. and Mrs. B.V. Higgins, who live in the Youngtown community were guests of honor at a large family gathering at the Henry Collett home Sunday noon, July 28, in celebration of their 25th wedding anniversary.
Three of Marion's new car dealers, the Newcomer Motor Company, the Paul Seifert Motor Company, and the Powell Motor Company, Ford, Chevrolet-Buick and Dodge-Plymouth dealers, respectively, have recently made changes and enlargements in their parts departments.
The betrothal of Betty Joann Knackstedt to Alden L. Slusser, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Slusser, is announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Knackstedt. The date of the marriage as yet has not been set.
Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Ecker have received a letter from Howard Boling, Bear Lake, Calif., relating the way in which their son Jim, who died at the Tarawa landing met his death. He writes that he and Jim were walking side by side about 10 minutes after they reached Tarawa when Jim went to aid a wounded Marine. He had taken about three steps when he was hit in the back and the neck. He did not suffer, Boling wrote.
Those enrolled in Emporia State Teachers College this summer included Mary Jo Utting, Antelope; Ruth Louise Larsen, Burns; Edward Westerhaus and George Westerhaus, Florence; William Knode, Ralph Lee, Theodore Loney, Jack McKay, Betty Jane Thompson and Thomas Wheat, Marion; Thomas Carr, Robert Fisher, Lois Jewell, Lucille Meirowsky, Vera Newcomer, Frances Richter, Ivan Shields, and Robert Stroud, Peabody; Neva Brunner, Ramona; Lorraine Hajek, Doris Hutchens, Mildred Teetzen, Tampa.
It's been another hot, dry week. The hottest day was Saturday when the thermometer in the shade registered a little over 108.
