Kansas Senate Resolution Proposes Higher Legislature Pay
Senate Concurrent Resolution No 9 proposes amending the Kansas constitution to set legislators pay at 500 dollars per biennial term plus 100 dollars per special session and 15 cents per mile for travel. The measure would appear on the 1930 general election ballot for voter approval with the change effective upon publication.
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Kansas Senate proposes income tax amendment for 1930 ballot
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 8 proposes adding a new Section 2 to Article 11 of the Kansas Constitution to authorize graduated income taxes. It sets renumbering of sections, designates the 1930 general election for votes, and states the measure takes effect after publication.
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State of Kansas
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Fraternity Curtains Spark Notes Across Street
A Kansas newspaper column collects witty quips from various readers and small-town sources. The pieces lampoon culture, politics, and daily life with humorous social jabs, including an exchange about curtains and a quip about a governor race.
Dedicating Clay Center Airport Plans Accelerate
Arrangements advance for the dedication of Clay Center Airport located one mile west on North 40. The event Friday August 8 is directed by the Clay Center Chamber of Commerce with A F Weethee as chairman and J R Fwine of Kansas City Kansas as Fairfax airpart representative.
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Clay Center
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Beet Sugar Campaign Push Aimed At Kansas Households
Robert W. Schaefer of Greeley Colorado says the Mountain States Beet Growers Marketing Association is promoting a beet sugar campaign in Kansas. The group works through county agents to persuade housewives to buy beet sugar, noting government chemists see no quality difference and beet sugar costs about twenty cents per 100 pounds less. Cooking experts reportedly attest beet sugar meets cane sugar standards.
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Robert’ .W. Schaefer
Greeley
Colorado
Mountain States Beet Growers Marketing Association
Water safety test clears Lake Goodwyn swimmers
State chemists completed a swater test at Lake Goodwyn in Ottawa County State Park. They report the water absolutely safe for swimmers and as good as any in the state. Rumors claimed contamination caused illnesses from colds to infantile paralysis and smallpox.
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Ottawa County
Minneapolis
Wheat crop report from Norcatur area margins
Bill Ruby near Norcatur suffered a 19 percent hail loss and still harvested wheat at 36 bushels per acre. National reports estimate the 1930 U S wheat average around twenty bushels per acre according to the Nocatur Dispatch.
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Norcatur
Nocatur Dispatch
Concordia High School Nears Opening For Next Term
The new Concordia high school is advancing rapidly and should open for the next term with all work completed. A possible delay is limited to at most one week, according to informed observers, a welcome relief for students who have waited anxiously.
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Clay Center Times
Burr Oak Herald
Concordia
Blade Empire
Rainfall Dips Short in Republic Area Amid Broad County Showers
The Republic area reports .84 inches of rain this week while southern parts of the county enjoy 1 to 2 inches. Scandia Courtland Wayne and Talmo recorded good rains, cooler weather improves corn prospects and a strong corn crop is anticipated this season.
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Fire damages Dundas car on Highway 40 west of Clay Center
The Clay Center Dispatch reports L. W. Dundas’s Stearns-Knight auto burned on Highway 40 six miles east of Clay Center. Fire started in the rear. Dundas removed the battery and a carton, and a passing car notified the fire department too late. The car, insured for 500 dollars, cost about 4000 when new. Dundas is currently in Mankato.
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Stearns-Knight
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Mankato
Western Advocate
July heat tied record for Concordia station history
July 1930 matched historic highs with an average near record levels and 11 days above 100 degrees. The Concordia station recorded a July high of 110 degrees in 1913, tying for the hottest reading in the blade empire era.
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Weather Bureau
E.C. Corkill
Concordia
Disappeared Man Under Shell Shock Suspicion
Ed Veroda reports a case described as a lapse of memory from shell shock after the late world war. Frank Craig, who lived on the Charles Wokal sr. land near Munden farmed by John Moravek, disappeared last Sunday near Atchison and has not yet been found.
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Ed Veroda
Frank Craig
Charles Wokal
Munden
John Moravek
Atchison
Cuba
Wheat Festival Train Arrives in Belleville Saturday
The Kansas Wheat Festival train will visit Belleville on Saturday morning August 9 greeting thousands of Republic County residents invited by the Trade Extension Division of the Belleville Chamber of Commerce.
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Belleville
Republic County
Suburban Reader renews Chapman Advertiser subscription
Will Hollinger of Attadena California visits Chapman with son and grandson to renew his paper. He left Kansas in 1919 and has driven to Chapman 17 times since then. A week ago they traveled to Chambersburg Pennsylvania, his native state, and he praises Missouri roads as the best. He set a 480 mile one day drive from St Louis to Chapman.
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Attadena
Handfornia
Chapman
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Kansas
Chambersburg
Pennsylvania
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St. Louis
Chapman Advertiser
Sheriff Survives Gun Battle Near Morland
On the Morland highway a gun fight left Sheriff Joyce F. Blackman critically wounded by bullets from Alfred Cummings. Cummings was wounded in the hip by the sheriff. The pursuit occurred Tuesday morning as fugitives with warrants, Floyd Huntington and Cummings, faced the law. Later reports say Blackman survived the shock and had a good chance of recovery.
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Alfred
Red) Cummings
Floyd Huntington
Joyce F. Blackman
Cummings
Morland
Blackman
Hoxie Sentinel
Lew Wentz weighed for Kansas State Highway designations
Considerable interest in Medicine Lodge over a report in the Alva Record that Lew Wentz promised consideration of designating State Highway No. 8 in Kansas this fall. Oklahoma would follow routes No. 14 and No. 42. The note recalls Wentz’s influence in securing U. S. funding for Oklahoma and suggests his promise could impact north south routing and federal markers.
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Alva Record
Lew Wentz
Kansas
Oklahoma
Wentz
U. S
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