Senior Citizen’s Will Give Up Meeting Place
Today there are twelve unhappy “old men” for the Old Men’s Club, located at 104 East Main Street, was forced to close its doors and these men are now without a meeting place. The irony of the situation is that construction has just started on the Greenburg building on the east corner of the square, and the Old Men’s Club had a choice location for the “sidewalk” engineers to sit and watch the work progress. Continue reading
Longfellow School Opens To Students
Classes Moved from Temporary Quarter in Other Buildings
Two hundred eighty students were transferred Monday from their temporary quarters at other buildings to their new rooms at the Longfellow school. The transferred students had been assigned to Longfellow at the beginning of the term and attended classes at other schools awaiting completion of the new building which was occupied Monday for the first time. Continue reading
In 1953, the clock on the County Court House which was originally installed in 1907, quit working and the following two articles relate to its replacement with a newer, more modern electrically operated version. Continue reading
The following history of the Marion Woman’s Club written by Mrs. Nannie G. Parks was printed in booklet form in 1954 and distributed to members of the club at its latest meeting by Oldham Paisley, Daily Republican publisher, who was the speaker for the occasion. Continue reading
By the start of the War Between the States, Marion was an extremely small town compared to what it is today.
The Illinois General Assembly provided Marion a town charter in 1851. Earlier, the legislature provided for a committee to plat out a county seat at the same time Williamson County was separated from Franklin County. Continue reading