145 years ago

march 26, 1880

W.B. Green has recently executed one of the handsomest pieces of hand map work we ever saw.

It is a diagram of the business portions of Marion Centre, made for the Phoenix Insurance Company, of which W.F. Hoch is agent.

“Will” Green is the most elegant penman in the county.

The Collier Coal Company of Peabody has commenced boring on Mr. Potter’s farm. It is proposed to go down at least 500 feet.

Bob Baker has a nice new delivery wagon and is as proud of it as a girl is of her first beau.

The wagon is a Marion Centre institution and is a creditable “turn out” for the workmen: D.H. Cline, woodwork; Jas. H. McAlister, blacksmith; and Widmeyer & Glover, painters.

The Peabody cemetery is in rather a bad predicament. The title to the property has passed into the hands of a gentleman in New York, who of course does not take the pride in the premises that parties having loved ones buried there would wish.

It is a pity that the city or some resident friend of the city does not own the property.