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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1928
Page
7
Local brief outlines a 25 acre prairie grass for sale by John Webber and notes multiple social visits and travel. Names mentioned include Mrs Chas Nordman Mrs Marie Sederlin Mrs Frank Peterson and families with visitors from Clifton Lawrence Jensen Republic and Belleville. A church meeting in Clay Center is also referenced.
Mr and Mrs Frank Knowles of Valley Falls visited the first of the week with Mr and Mrs J P Vandeveer whose wives are sisters. Mr and Mrs Harry White of Lincoln Nebraska paused Wednesday night with his mother Mrs May White while en route to Colorado for an outing.
Joseph Jennings, back from San Diego, plans to build and equip a photograph studio in Courtland. The United Brethren Sunday School announces its annual picnic for Thursday afternoon and evening next week, with the exact location to be announced at the service next Sunday.
C. J. Hugos departed for St Louis on Monday to stay with Mrs. Hugos and daughter Gladys. Gladys is in a sanitarium there receiving treatment for a spinal ailment.
W. C. Preble and his daughter Marceil with Dorothy Dutton and Dudley Doctor visited Beatrice on Wednesday and returned with two new Whippets a coach and a coupe. Howard Mahan joined the Mahan family at Concordia for a picnic and then accompanied Mr and Mrs A S Mahan to Salina before returning to Scandia.
Miss Ada Hawkins of the bank commissioner's office in Topeka visited Geneva Johnson and other friends on Friday evening. She and Miss Johnson joined a party of ladies for a two weeks outing to Colorado.
Mr and Mrs Ole Hammer and relatives plan a Yellowstone trip via Laurel Montana joining Mr and Mrs Allen Vannier. Duluth visitors Dr and Mrs J W Ekblad and L M Wheeler depart for Oklahoma City with Mrs Aberia Ryan. Local club notes include a Community club meeting, guests, a lunch, and a postponed next meeting. A hayfield fire damages alfalfa and tarpaulins after a lightning storm.
Karl Hugos and family relocate to the Eli Othberg residence in East Scandia. Miss Margaret Anderson visits her aunt Ellen Loring and relatives in the area. Mrs. Elizabeth Coleman receives a pension raise to 40 a month with back pay. George Larson upgrades his north of the drug store property, soon occupied by Vic Berard and family. City hall interior gets a fresh paint job. Mrs. Anna Hallgren and daughter Mamie Freed travel from Courtland to Tacoma to visit Mrs. O. H. Smith. Eva Sandborn of the Clay Center Times visits family in town.
Mr and Mrs Tom May and Mr and Mrs Bennie Buel and sons of Moline Kansas visited at the home of Mr and Mrs John Vandeveer on Thursday. Mr May is a brother of Mrs Vandeveer.
Mr and Mrs Frank Peterson hosted Thursday guests including Mr and Mrs Walter Ware Mrs Ray Wenton Miss Arlene Ware all from Pond Creek Oklahoma and Mr and Mrs W J Mayell of Republic.
Mr and Mrs E M Boggess received a card from their son Montrose and his wife in Berlin Germany. They are touring Europe this summer after visiting Mrs Boggess native Copenhagen home.
For sale one hundred thirty five acres upland adjoining Scandia at seventy dollars per acre with fair improvements. Ainsworth Realty Co Concordia Kansas. Blanche Sanderson and Blanche Burns returned from Manhattan after nine weeks at K S A C. Lawrence Nystrom drove to Manhattan after them. Sanderson will teach Superior No T school east of town next year. Burns will teach in Scandia schools.
Harry Moller came back Monday from western Kansas where he stayed with his parents Mr and Mrs T A Moller and worked in harvest fields. He was joined by his sister Helen who then went to Lincoln Nebraska to visit her sister Lilah.
Marceil-Preble Euelah Barrett and Dorothy Aspegren hosted a miscellaneous shower Tuesday afternoon for Mrs. Alice Cooper. A two course dinner followed, with Mrs. Cooper receiving many gifts. Guests included Mrs. May Mead, Mrs. Margaret Hendrix, Miss Ina Williams of Jamestown, and Mrs. Chas Holmstrom and children of Kansas City visiting Mrs. Mead.
Clifford Brown handles route one mail duties while his father J. M. Brown is on annual leave. The arrangement places Brown in service duties for the duration of the vacation.
A group of Belleville girls are spending a week at Granstedt cabin by the river west of Sherdahl, enjoying camp life during a leisure program.
Mr. Kent and George Haser attended a Missouri Pacific safety meeting at Concordia on Thursday evening.
Mr and Mrs George Haser and Mrs A M Bettis were in Belleville Thursday forenoon for a local social or family visit.
The epiglottis is a tongue shaped flap at the larynx front once thought to close the larynx during swallowing. Stuart showed that during swallowing it moves forward rather than falling back, and many animals without it swallow perfectly.
A plan to protect car upholstery uses scents from thyme geranium cloves and cinnamon to kill germs. Clove odor purportedly eliminates microbes in thirty five minutes while typhoid bacteria are killed in twelve minutes. The method has kept upholstery germ free for nearly two years.
A textile company tested 12 minute rest breaks with music at mid-morning and mid-afternoon. After three months fatigue dropped and output matched previous levels with same staffing, despite three percent of work time devoted to music. Phonograph music played through plant loudspeakers aided relaxation during breaks.
A casual exchange presents a ukulele as a spontaneous gift with no expectations or commitments implied. The conversation frames the offer as a friendly gesture rather than a negotiations point or sale.
The Friendship club of the United Brethren church is entertained this Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs Howard Mahan. The event will feature light refreshments and a social program for members and guests.
Mrs. Fred Forsberg and family Mrs. C F Erickson Emil Forsberg and family and Albin Forsberg and family came Saturday evening to help Mrs. Aug Forsberg celebrate her birthday.
Miss Audrey Tedrow returned last week from Manhattan where she studied this summer at KSA C. She will teach at district 61 in the coming year. Mrs. Marie Sederlin and the Jensen family visited the Forsberg home Tuesday afternoon.
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