The wholesale grocery house of Goddard & Co. was operated in Marion as a branch of the large wholesale institution in St. Louis, which was incorporated in 1872. The company was present in Marion by the turn of the century and in the 1906 Marion directory they were listed at 118 E. Union Street. Continue reading
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The following compilation consists of three articles describing Homer Butler and lastly, his obituary. Two articles were large, front page stories that were issued on the day of Homer’s death. The last article was composed by Pearl Roberts and printed in the 1989 Williamson County Sesquicentennial book commemorating the people, places and events of the county. Continue reading
The Marion Supply Company located at 200-04 E. Main Street across the street from the U.S. Post Office was built to be part of the Elles Store Company. Continue reading
Family members and colleagues remember Richard Darby as a solid journalist and a patient teacher. The retired managing editor of the Marion Daily Republican died this morning at Arlington Memorial Hospital in Arlington, Texas.
Darby, who passed away at 6:30 a.m., had been splitting time between his Marion home and the Dallas-Fort Worth area while undergoing treatment for lymphoma. He had been fighting cancer for almost five years. Continue reading
The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Collins lying in pools of their own blood with a gunshot thru the temple of each head was the sight that greeted two night policemen who entered the Collins home at 104 North Russell Street about two thirty o’clock Tuesday morning. Continue reading