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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1909
Page
6
Roy al Tailors in Belleville advertises affordable tailoring and improved dress options. The concise notice emphasizes value pricing and improved wardrobe quality for customers seeking economical style upgrades.
Several residents traveled to nearby towns this week including Jehi Othberg visiting Hardy Nebraska and Brotchies offering a range of brushes and an alabastine supply. Mrs J Ostberg and son Jh Othberg spent Sunday with relatives while Miss Bliss visited with Mrs Dale in Belleville. A Belleville eye specialist Dr Burts visited Scandia and Rev Berquist returned from Western Nebraska.
Local items report Leo Canfield calling the Journal office from Bellsville, Esther Anderson visiting Courtland, and Robert Bliss visiting his sister in Scandia. A school board meeting discussed district matters while the West quarantine for smallpox ends. Community happenings include jewelry and baseball goods at Brotchie's, sales of Buick cars, undertaker studies, Sunday School convention, and subscriptions for the Kansas City Star.
Jain Olson and T. J. Mahaffey left Monday night for Cherokee and other points in Oklahoma. Mahaffey will also visit his brother at Goltry before returning.
Dr IX BP Ahrens and his mother traveled to Minnesota after news of his aunt's death reached Belleville Saturday night. The pair departed Bellville on Sunday following the grim report.
The note laments local business handling and compares it to baseball play, suggesting if merchants matched their ball game skill they would risk receivership. It links Friday game activity to street merchants on both sides of the street and hints at financial improprieties.
J W Erickson of Clay Center, among four men who died in the Topeka hotel fire Saturday morning, was brother in law to Rev J K Johnston and had visited Scandia several times. Rev and Mrs Johnston were noted in connection with the incident.
Eric Almquist and J. M. Johnson sail from New York to Liverpool on May 5. They will travel by rail in England then cross the North Sea to Sweden where the couple will reside for the summer. Brotchie advertises watch and clock repair services with a guaranteed guarantee.
The Forty fourth annual convention of the Kansas Sunday School Association will convene in the Auditorium Topeka Kansas on Wednesday Thursday and Friday with sessions across three days.
May 5 to 7 1909 opening session at 3 30 pm features Marion Lawrence the world renowned Sunday School man urging county delegates and non delegates alike to attend. Also a Help Wanted ad seeks Scandia subscription researchers for Success Magazine offering $1 50 daily plus commission with room 102 New York references.
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