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Happenings Don't forget to get your Strawberry Shortcake at the United Church booth at the Marion Auto Show on Sunday, August 18. At the Red Cross Blood Drive on August 13 at the Marion Legion Post Home, 39 pints of blood were collected, according to Mark Wyman. The next drives will be October 15 and December 17. Ed Bliek has moved to the DeMay Living Center, in Newark, for rehabilitation. Jeannette Stubenrod had the misfortune to fall last week. Mark your calendar for the Macaluso Family Benefit on August 25. A peach tree can produce a commercial crop for up to 15 to 20 years. Members of the Marion Historic Association are now furnishing an additional room a the Marion Museum with loaned and borrowed articles. Plans are underway to fill the room with new exhibits and displays designed to interest visitors in time for Heritage Festival on September 21. Perhaps you have an idea or collection you might wish to share. Anyone wishing to join the Marion Historic Association, for the first time, or to renew their subscription may forward their membership dues to Box 22, Marion, NY 14505. Single memberships are $5, Family $7. Marion 1916: Marion is fast prospering, now having six churches, one dry-goods store, two grocery stores, two tailor shops, a drug store, a meat market, one furniture store, two barber shops, a post office, a bank, two lawyers, a printing office, a bakery, a jewelry store, an ice cream parlor, two undertakers, two liveries, a High School, a public library, a railroad station, and railroad, two garages, a hotel building, four doctors, a vinegar factory, two coal yards, a cement plant, two canning factories, a grange, and Maple Avenue Theater, also a water works system, a fire company, a band and a Board of Trade. The present population of the town is about twenty-two hundred.
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