It’s clear from Memory Kit ads that range from 1923 into the 1950’s that Waddie Campbell operated a restaurant business in Marion for decades. Continue reading
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Jefferson School 1923-24
Jefferson School, Class of 1923-24Top Row- Frank White, Ralph Carlton, Frank Alessi, Elmer Stapleton
2nd Row- Willie Wachter, Dan Anderson, Alvin Robinson, Carman Cisco, William Lee, Charles McConnell, Evert Turnage, Arthur Love, Philip Ula Continue reading
Marion Heights Plat Map 1914
Marion’s early efforts to attract diversified industry to supplement the coal mines are recalled by Miss Maude Owen, 510 S. Madison Street, who was secretary to the manager of the Marion Development Company not long after the turn of the century. Continue reading
The Marion State & Savings Bank was organized in 1890 by C. H. Denison and J. H. Searing and joined in a few months by J. H. Burnett with a capital of $30,000.00. Continue reading
On December 1, 1930, the last of Marion’s banks closed its door and there were no banking facilities in our community until the Bank of Marion opened its newly organized institution December 15, 1937. Continue reading
