Scandia Journal (Newspaper) - July 16, 1931, Scandia, Kansas THE JOU Established 1871 Republic July 1931 Volume Listenin In And now its the Farm The boys played ball they No game so why So says Little Johnny Hale in his The New a team which for the he happens to be The particular lops for which Little Johnny happens be printing the alibi was to 1 defeat at the hands of the Scandia Club at the at Courtland July Little you know is the who plays at first for and in trying to laugh off a tries to stand with his as he tries to da at firsk But Little falling with pencil as he does at only admitted to the the world already Formoso by the pulled a poor took the JACK JOHNSON TO PITCH SUNDAY Former Swede Star to Take Mound Against Superior Cementers on Local A REPUBLICAN VALLEY GAME Given Opportunity See John son Work First in Six Celebra At 3 next Sunday Scandia wiir foe given the first opportunity in sjx years to Jack who pitched the Swedes in and work on the local diamond when he takes the for Scandia against the Superior Cementers in a regular ly scheduled Republican Valley Lea gue The game Sunday will mark the first time that Johnson has ever pitched in the valley league since its organization two years When Johnson was pitching for Scandia and surrounding towns on ore than six years he had the largest following of fans of any player who ever a Swede and those Same are for the see him in action tion Committees m and gave nothing in How do we know Little Johnny admitted it in his Not being satisfied with its water libel muni cipal and had to bring in a speaker recently to re vive the Klan The lady boss of The Journal has just completed the three harvesting of the vegetable garden which she claims is a record One of the peppers meas ured 3 inches in Maybe not so bad for July are When Freed and George Nimocks chaperoned a of young ladies to the Kersh tner cabin last week for an over night the ladies refused to sleep because they feared again on Johnson will face the second place team in the Superior has met defeat only four times this year and has split the two games with the Swedes thus far this John son will be on the mound to win and to give local baseball fans of his oldtime pitching In the exhibition game Courtland on July John son turned the undefeated team back on the short end of a 7 to 1 andin doing did not extend himself in the He had plenty left which he did not have to Swedes are out to win the game next Local baseball officials are ing to handle the largest crowd of the and intend to see the game are urged to come early to get the best Regular league admission prices of 35 cents will with ladies admitted WORK WILL AGAIN START ON CITY HALL REMODELING Scandia City Limit Amount of Repair Work to Maximum to After having work already started on ithe of the City Hall and then discontinuing the city council finally took formal action on the proposition last Friday evening and voted to start Work again on the but limited the maximum amount of money to be spent on the project to An engineers estimate previously had placed the amount required the work at more than The majority of die council believed it unwise tO spend at this time arid as result or the action Friday repairs only to the of the will be Werner will do the concrete and brick Present plans call for of the northeast and of the building and the bracing of the north John Anderson has been employed to do the necessary carpentry repairing ofthe weak corners of the structure will torn out and rebuilt with new BUDGETING LAW IS NOW IN FORCE Local Units of Government Are Required to Publish Last Years BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR if you can the scene the next morning when they arose from their in the cabin and espied a snake cozily on the foot of one of the If banks in America should close for two days as they did in ti would mean bankrupcy for postal department of the slump in postal business if all and overdue note notices were taken but of the mail f There are several grocery stores in our town one of them has culty in meeting its is only a question of time until it will two doors Js another which does a very When talking with the proprietor of this he said The weakest argument I know is for some merchants to tell the people that he doesnt advertise because it costs him to much T spend a year in But I dont figure that it conies out of nay cash I think it is paid by the competitors who do not v Fin getting new customers through my andi some of them are coming to me from stores a of here that the to because everybody knows Merchan and Harry Martman of Hosington visited at the Nim ocks home Saturday Nimocks and daughters return ed home with them for a weeks Hiatt and motored to last Sunday where they attended birthday dinner of her Miss Elda Isaacson of Kansas City came in Saturday to spend four weeks with her Emil and Pedro Rydall of near Courland had the misfortune of injuring his neck and getting badly jarred up in a THE CHURCHES Lutheran Church Transfiguration of Matthew Sunday School and morning wor ship at the usual Union ser vices at the park in the John Sutherland gave ian interesting lecture on Foreign Mis sions church on Monday even forcefully and practically demon and John Nelson and Kansas City motored Saturday visit Nelsons Ida and other Nelson re turned home on BIG TIRE MAKES VISIT TO SCANDIA Casing More by Large Crowd of Curious MADE RY GOODYEAR COMPANY World Largest Tire Displayed at Home Supply Company ft Filling As per the largest tire in the world came to Scandia Fri day afternoon and was a large assemblage of The tire was made by and Rubber and was on exhibition at the Home Oil and Supply local Goodyear factory representa tive of the Goodyear and salesman on this drove into town at 2 driving down Fourth and returning to the station with big casing trail ing which pulls the tire was and soon a crowd was viewing and inspecting the The casing is 12 four feet has a sidewall and bead of 877 fabric of 289 a tube of 125 wheel 600 pounds and yoke of with a total weight of It is valued at Gentele has been oh the road with them two covering 32 states and four He has traveled miles with the Estimate of for Year Also To Be Submitted or 1 Budgeting by school district and other this sum mer be somewhat different than the legislature last win ter having passed a budget It the publication in a local newspaper of the entire by and for the further information of the the corres ponding items of the last previous Thus taxpayers will have he fore them a showing for what specific purposes money is to be levi ed and how the items compare with the last The to give tlie tax payers an opportunity to express requires a public hearing after publication of the budget at which the officials making the bud get ore determining the levies may answer questions and criticisms of any of the items or the budget as a such as they are or have are usually made up about the first of It that levying bodies would do well to start early thig year in The law requires the publication earlier than thirty days than ten days before the levies must be certified to the county clerk The date for certification of local levies fixed iby law is on or before the 25th day By the new budget act budgets may be 30 days or as early as the 26th of Or they may be published as late as August If published at that date the public must study 12ie appear in the public hearing and the levying then determine the levies and certify them to county all within ten SCANDIA SCOUT TROOP HOLDS A WEEKS CAMP Eighteen Boys and two at Camp at Pawnee Park Near Republic Eighteen members of the Scandia Boy Scout together with the two Selin and are in camp week at Pawnee Park near The Camping left Scandia Mpn day morning and will return Satur day A full weeks program has been mapped put at the Arising at 6 oclock for the boys Have a 2hour period of study and in struction in Swimming twice a and other forms Of recreation take up the Megill is the camp cook and is Assisted by William one of the local The Courtland V scouts will Jbe guests at the camp today and the Republic City scouts will be guests Through the courtesy of Karl the local 1roop has a truck at their disposal at the during the entire Those who are in in addi tion to the two include Richard Junior Minor William Alfred Wyatt Dean Junior Neal Charles Benton Junior Lloyd Vir gil Albert and Wal ter STORM DAMAGES CROPS Republic County Visited by Hail and Rain Which Do Much SCANDIA ESCAPES DAMAGE Wind Down Near Rydal and Hail Strips Growing Corn A and hail storm visited Republic county Saturday eaving in its wake damage to small telephone pOles and damage to the corn by the was just the west edge of registered of its destruction and on Sam Henry farm north east of Rydal and the Prank Roat farm north of Belleville suffered the bodies do well to get ready at an earlier date than usual is Most of them have never made itemized bud gets and comparisons such as the new law and will more time than it has usually FORMOSO WINS ANOTHER GAME League Turn Back for Third Time This Year in PROCTOR ALLOWS ONLY 6 HITS heaviest losses when wind razed barns and other Belle city reports considerable damage shade trees the wind breaking off Hail around Rydal and in the east part of the comity stripped the from the growing and estimate that little of its the corn will be retarded in and ultimate A heavy rain accom the storm throughout the east part of the Only a few hail stones fell in the of Scandia and no damage has been Nearly an inch of and fallen After the hard gusto of intermittent showers fell give the ground an other thorough SNOOKER TOURNAMENT ROUND ENDS TONIGHT Results in the snooker tourna ment at Wards Pool Hall last Thurs day night gave a two to decision over Ray Chilcott Clark defeated Orville ini two straight On Monday night Ted Moe defeated Andrew Wil 29 to and 23tp and consecutive win in Republican john Nystrom ran up the highest Formoso Touches Simms for Blows in Game at Scandia to Win 2 to 1 10 Formoso came to Scandia last Sun day afternoon and annexed its ninth CAR IS WRECKED WHEN FALLS AStEEP I Roy of suffer ed heavy damage to car and his injured when he temporarily fell asleep as he was speeding on the highway north of Beloit last Thursday ed note a road which place the road did not go straight on and went into the ditch as he at Valley League by defeating the Swedes in a 2 to 1 battle in as fine a game of baseball as was ever played on the local of Formoso and new hurler for the engaged a pitching duel in which Proctor leld the slight Proctor whif fed nine Swedes and dished out only six hits while Simms was touched for ten hits and struck out five Both pitchers were given good CONQUERING HORDE i i nn Our Lutheran Church The tire is pulled Buick bus and an average speed of 25 hiles an hour is made on In mountain driving it s all Tow gear both uphill and Gentele carries a railer license tag and in all of his says he has never question d but once by traffic was was allowed f will Winder a program this Sunday r The last Gust lost his hat at the show on Friday and notified the The two sweeper gave the house a cleaning Saturday and when the manager went down to the house Saturday evening to look for Gusts lost he found it on the floor by the seat right where Gust said he had The plumbs are the proof of the Domestic Note Ed Wires and George have both volunteered to build rock gardens for their This with various has been doing duty for a good but for the benefit of those who have not chanced to f or the new year The pastor will be pres The Sunday Shool meet the Lars Hammer horn The Senior choir wi day If you feel slighted saw a prayer and ge You are To Cl Next Lords Day meets at 10 oclock the regular s The sermon topic wi Thing We In the evening we other Scandia Chui Union Park Sunday J teachers will our Church At 11 ervice is 11 The in the July It concerns an inmate of a luna tic who on being asked by a visitor how he got that re plied Jt all I married a widow with a grownup Then my being a married the stepdaughter my and nay father my stepson my wife also became the of her Then my stepmother had a who was my being my fath ers son the boy was the of ne wap also my Then my wife and I had a y fathers wife is my sons half My father sister and also fine Republic City band will take in the a band concert in conjunction with the program of the his to see my father W m became my Stepson my being any fathers 1 am my own grand stopped the satisfied Christian Science Churches Sacrament was the subject oJ the in all of July The Golden Text Jesus saith unto is to do the wil of him that sent and to finish his work John the citations from the Bible was the following I have given you an that ye should do as I have to you The include passages from Christian Science Science and with Kev to the by Mary Baker one of which reads divine demands that all should follow the example of our Master and hi apostles and not merely worship his personality having a of Miss Ella and Mr and at Ran dolph last They also visits ed friends and who is critically is slowly tempted Another car Monday night when Lloyd Dunn of Formoso collided his car with a Young Dunn received an in jury to his shoulder and his car Was practically COUNTY OFFICIALS GO TO TOPEKA FOR CONFERENCE County Clerk Coombs and the three county and left Wednesday for Topeka where they confer with members of the state tax commission relative to tax problems confronting the local county authorities the ensuing year return to their homes in and of Kansas City to their home last Ther havr ing at the home of his and Vetus JohnsOn other Norton Young Well Known Helps Save Lives in Drowning Tragedy Miss a niece of and Ed received favor able mention state papers last week when she assisted in rescuing a party of young women from a ining pool at Norton in an accident in which one young lady lost her life ty is of the tragedy as related by the Morton Daily Telegram swimmings party for six Norton girls at the gravel pit pool years In addition to Miss par ents there are four brothers and one They are Waldo and Stanley all at lOme and Erma wife of Clifford near The tragedy deep over the community large numbers of persons to the gra including volunteer divers conclusion with the drowning about 4 oclock yesterday afternoon of Doris 20yearold daughter of Frank oper ators of a dairy farm on the old Davies piace three miles west of the Municipal Airport and the near drowning of Misses Ruth and Maxine Wyatt The body of Miss Wauffle was located and brought to the sur face more than an hour later by Buane eldest son of and Mark Diligent efforts to resuscitate Miss Wauffle were futile because of the long period which had elapsed after she had down and also because of the of 10 to 15 feet of water which her body was Funeral services were from the Wauffle home at 3 oclock this after with Drummond officiat The was to he taken later in day to north of Red front which place the Wauffle came here about 1J score pf the tourney win from Fred 34to la and 62 to Fred Jensen will meet Karl Hugos in the last of the first round games to night and Allen Gunter and Gust meet in the first i of second round On next Mon day night Raymond Cooper will meet Moe and Ted Moe play port with the Swedes turning in two errors and Formoso AT PRINCESS THEATRE Mutt that crafty old The Conquering a stu veteran on first for Scandia led the outdoor western two teams at the stick with three will be presented at The Princess safe blows out of five trips to the tomorrow and The pic Larson got exactly half of ture which was first filmed in silent the and in adition to his was called North of the origi stick he played title of the novel written hy The the novel was a worthy successor baseball many through a blow at an opportune the greatest of all silent a Ait fr Ani hit for two time lone Aspegren Dunstan looked best films brothers and each of them hitting twice in four tunes The heavy hitting Zimmer and of let down by Simms One of Form runs was unearned off Simms due to an and many local fans contend that the other run could have been cut off had not a Swede player slightly misjudged a ball in the The Swede run was unearned due to the player who scored feeing safe at first on a who have seen The Conquer ng Horde declare it to be a greater production in the talkie film than iti ivas in the SCANDIA fO SERVICE Workmen for the Scandia phone Company have luring the past week in hauling Belleville a car load of new telephone oles to be used in rebuilding lines the The Scandia company which always maintained good lines in the rural Simms always pitched the right ball on an attempted steal and at except when a batter interfered with his throw and Was called out by the Another interfered at but Fraz ier caught his man The box score Scandia 1 5 4 4 2 4 worked earnestly for covery of the body of Miss Wauffle in the hope that she could It is impossible to obtain the names of all who assisted in the but inr eluded were Noah with his Outboard motor boat Howard Mui John John Russell Charles Loren Melroy and Fred In the group of girls were Irene and Maxine Miss Ruth Maxine and teta 15 Law rence unable to No other persons at the pool at the tinie of the accident ex John owner of the land which fa leased to John The gravel pit is under lease to Young road Miss Ward and Miss Daly were rid ing a in the pool while the other close to the shore fear on page S 4 4 4 3 Total 34 2 ab Haler 4 4 2 00 4 1 0 00 4 20 8 0 4 0 0 1 6 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 35 10 2 27 13 3 2base Struck Simms by Proctor h 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 6 h 1 1 r po 0 12 0 5 0 1 4 0 1 4 0 a 0 2 0 2 3 0 2 1 4 0 1 27 14 r po 0 15 JL a 0 0 2 Bases on ff Simons off Proctor Hit by pitched ball Double plays Gunter to Dunstan to Aspegren to pitch Earn ed Umpires Doctor and 001 000 6 000 OOt 10 Scandia Formoso Boothe Clyde of spent last week with Mr Cuth bertson now visiting re JULY SPECIAL and finger Beauty and in local subscrib ers even a better service in future GOOD MUSIC FURNISHED AT LOCAL DANCE HALH Elmer Oppenlander and his Globe Trotters are each night to an enthusiastic dance crowd down at Millers Vernie Holmes ocal dance reports that attendance is satisfactory and that the dances will continue here as long as patronage demands The orchestra provides excellent which draws a large both from Scandia other towns in this NEW LIONS PRESIDENT ASSUMES YEARS DUTIES I The Scandia LiOns held its regular bimonthly Winner in Lodge Hall Monday Melvin elected presi dent of the took the chair and started the ea suing Miss Agnes Albro of the Midget Lunch served sthe The next meeting will be held on July at the Lodge Dunnigan of came in Tuesday to visit at the Werner where Dunnigan and daughter have visiting the will return home Miss Ruby Sundine A on Tuesday as well M can
