150 years ago

MARCH 24, 1876

Why should there be a contest continually waging between Marion Centre and Peabody? Does not the county economy demand that it be settled?

“Yes,” says the reader, “but how can it be settled?”

Easily — by erecting county buildings. These buildings must be built sometime. Why delay their building and permit this blighting and senseless warfare to continue?

Mr. Sam’l Kline of Atchison, an affable representative of the Missouri Valley Life Insurance Co. of Leavenworth, spent this week in our town in the interest of that company. We learn that he got a few applications and expects to return to this field in the future.

What better proof of the peaceable, patient character of this community could be adduced than the fact that a life insurance agent has spent a whole week in our midst and gone away unmolested?

The Record is impatient to suggest that there be a grand centennial jubilee held at Marion Centre on the Fourth of July. High railroad rates will prevent most of us going to Philadelphia if flat pocketbooks hadn’t already imposed a veto thereon.