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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1963
Page
4
A flurry of birthday anniversaries and gatherings fill the week in Scandia area households. Recipients include Susie Lervold Elaine and many neighbors and relatives sharing potlucks and family dinners. Local carious visits note extended kin from Concordia and Wichita Falls Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold McDowell of McCook Nebr are the parents of a baby girl Cynthia Leigh born March 22 1963. Grandmothers are Mrs. Alice Hammer and Mrs. Theresa McDowell of Scandia. Various local residents visited, hosted guests, and family gatherings noted in Courtland and surrounding areas. Thorval Anderson hospitalized at St Joseph hospital in Concordia is reported.
The writer recalls living near Empire City in Stanislaus County around 1860, the old hotel with a large bar, and buffalo robes in a upstairs room. He describes peddling fruits from a horse cart in Ceres, earnings of 1.25 to 2.00 per trip, and fruit prices. The Tuolumne River has diminished due to dams, ending the era.
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