The Marion Candy Kitchen located at 207 W. Main Street appears to have had a sum existence of about 20 years and was totally a Greek run business from start to go. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: March 2013
It’s clear from Memory Kit ads that range from 1923 into the 1950’s that Waddie Campbell operated a restaurant business in Marion for decades. Continue reading
Jefferson School, Class of 1923-24Top Row- Frank White, Ralph Carlton, Frank Alessi, Elmer Stapleton
2nd Row- Willie Wachter, Dan Anderson, Alvin Robinson, Carman Cisco, William Lee, Charles McConnell, Evert Turnage, Arthur Love, Philip Ula Continue reading
Marion’s early efforts to attract diversified industry to supplement the coal mines are recalled by Miss Maude Owen, 510 S. Madison Street, who was secretary to the manager of the Marion Development Company not long after the turn of the century. Continue reading
The Marion State & Savings Bank was organized in 1890 by C. H. Denison and J. H. Searing and joined in a few months by J. H. Burnett with a capital of $30,000.00. Continue reading