Quite a Little Shower and Notable Week Errors
Local notes recount a string of brief events from the week and weekend. Army discharges and illness mix with farm chores, travel, and social visits among neighbors in the area.
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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1919
Page
4
Local notes recount a string of brief events from the week and weekend. Army discharges and illness mix with farm chores, travel, and social visits among neighbors in the area.
Local notes report Mrs. Ed Anderson's illness and J. H. Sandell’s absence from the Scandia bank. Gunter's hardware advertises B P S paint and auto enamels. May 28 marks the eighth grade commencement with Miss Poage preparing. Hog purchases and prices are noted. Mrs. Fraser dies of pneumonia near Courtland leaving two sons. Subscriptions to The Journal are due. A harness maker will operate after April 15. Reports on travels of Win Gunter and Earl Wyatt from Colorado. Beckman Cash Store circulates circulars with bargains. Shoes and clothing for Europe’s destitute are packed for Belleville. A long excerpt discusses wartime garden trucking in France, urging veterans to farm to aid recovery and morale.
The Princess theater advertises a family friendly program next Saturday featuring the Fox Baby Grands show for ages six to sixty. It also notes May 6 as William Farnum in Riders of the Purple Sage and Thursdays with the Princess new serial The Brass Ledlet plus Sunshine Comedies starting April 12, and a Fox film The Blindness of Divorce showing April 8.
Henry Lehrman presents his celebrated Sunshine comedies described as the greatest laugh producers. The first of the two reels will be shown at the Princess on Saturday April 12, paired with the Tom Mix feature Fame and Fortune. The comedy is titled Roaring Lions and Wedding Bells.
The Princess marks her first theater role in the state as part of William Fox Sunshine Comedies. Don’t miss the debut exhibition of these cartoon bursters coming soon.
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