50 years ago

July 14, 1976

Silver spoons that commemorate Marion’s Hill School building, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, are available for sale. The collector’s items sell for $7 each.

Swim instructors Julie Bina, Ann Christensen, and Molly Ferrell are pictured getting ready to jump in for another day of swimming lessons with beginners from the Lincolnville and Lost Springs area.

This week’s personality profile features E.K. Schroeder, who has had a dental practice in Marion for 30 years.

More than 150 members of the Socolofsky family gathered July 3, 4, and 5 in McPherson to celebrate a centennial reunion commemorating the arrival on July 4, 1876, of Katharina and Gottfried Socolofsky III and their two sons in Peabody from their native village of Drispitz on the Volga River in Russia.