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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
8
Marion city officials gathered at the Commercial Club for a banquet that launched the new Marion City Officials Association. Mayors, council members, and trustees shared speeches on Sunday observance, city growth, and municipal challenges, with jokes and wry commentary from several attendees.
After the regular prayer meeting at Central Christian church a Wednesday class was organized to study Sunday School work. The group aims to equip young Christian workers for active church service using a text edited by Inger of Cincinnati as the guide.
An old, penniless drunk named Winegarner appeared in a police court with his loyal hound perched on his lap. The mayor urged the man to seek work or leave town, and the pair walked off toward Delaware, while another drunken offender paid a $5 fine.
J J Crawley of Kensington Place reports his son Randolph Crawley has left for Washington to serve as a page in the House of Representatives. He says the work is pleasant and teaching him about government. He also mentions attending church last Sunday and sitting near Vice President Fair and his wife.
The Ben Hur Tribe ceremony lists officers including Layton as past chief, Spaulding as chief, Egfeld as judge, Davies as scribe and captain, Parish as outer guard, Richardson as Inner guard, Gompf as rabbi and pianist. A banquet followed with a general social conclave.
At the Columbus meeting of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen the committee selected W J Winans to represent the body in the current Ohio legislature. He leads a nearly 90 000 strong organization across several railway lines and will back bills advancing the union’s aims. J T R Kelly, who reviewed this position, now works as a third trick dispatcher at Galion.
J Wilbur Jacoby submits resignation as member of the board of city school examiners. The action, with the new board yet to organize, will be presented Friday night at the meeting. Jacoby will retire from the examining board as he continues as a school board member. A vacancy will be filled at Friday’s session.
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