14 Aug 1930
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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1930
Page
1
The Kansas Senate and House concur to submit to voters a constitutional amendment raising legislature pay to 500 dollars per biennial term plus 100 dollars per special session and 15 cents per mile for travel. The measure to be on the 1930 general election ballot and take effect after publication.
Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 8 of Kansas proposes adding a new section to article 11 authorizing state power to levy taxes on income from all sources with graduated rates. It renumbers existing sections, designates the amendment as The Income Tax Amendment, and sets submission to voters at the 1930 general election. The resolution takes effect upon publication in the statute book.
The Kansas GOP voices a clean campaign verdict praising Frank Haucke as the new rising figure while defending Clyde Reed’s tenure. The Emporia Gazette lauds youth and warns against malice as Kansas politics shift to a new generation with Haucke and Reed both emphasized.
A collage of oddball notes from Kansas towns includes social quips about mail order cars, a depot sighting with a cane, election surprises, fashion jabs, a Turkish visitor tale, political party moodiness, a planned Kansas medical board visit to Milford, a Portis reputation joke, a chase County golf course gag, a Smith county trousers return, and a playful bedtime exchange from Clay Center Dispatch.
A Clyde meeting assembled about twenty men Tuesday evening to begin organizing a farm bureau farm management association covering six counties Cloud Washington Clay Riley Geary and Ottawa with Geary lacking representation. M N Chaman head of the Agricultural College economics department directed the session. W W Bowman of Topeka Kansas bankers association spoke to attendees.
J E Lucas appeals to the supreme court from the district court arguing the last contract with Underhill Construction Co was illegal due to a material change in the plans and lack of readvertising for bids.
Helen Bartak five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Stanley Bartak of Cuba was poisoned after eating Jimson weed. She was treated at Patterson Memorial hospital by Dr D B Wallace and released after 24 hours. The weed is of Asiatic origin and highly poisonous.
Oakley Kansas safesr man Happy Wiggins piloting a plane near Logan county 4500 feet up halted a rattlesnake that rose at his feet. He steered clear and dropped the snake before danger could strike in a scene noted by Ellis County News.
The record notes that July 1901 was exceptionally hot, surpassing any month in forty-two years. It compares with recent months showing drier conditions and cites last December as notably dry, though only one month matched the extreme warmth.
In July 1901 Minneapolis records show fourteen straight days with highs at or above 100 degrees and a mean maximum of 101.1. The month had sixteen days reaching 100 degrees or more, but these highs were not consecutive.
A district court Friday evening granted the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railway a temporary injunction preventing Concordia city officials and Cloud County from further pursuing collection of 502.68 dollars. The sum reflects the railroad’s share of the assessment for a Broadway lighting system installed last spring.
A Rock Island freight train wrecked east of the Agenda depot on Sunday afternoon killing three men and injuring two. The deceased were Kingsley of Chicago Myron Lee of Osawatomie Kansas and George Palenkas of Mansfield Ohio. Injured Grady Woods of Kansas City Missouri suffered a brain concussion and cuts and bruises.
Frank Hanel Democratic candidate for county treasurer died in a camping trip accident near Munden when his car collided with a truck and plunged into a ditch. He was a prosperous local farmer with many friends who extend condolences to his family.
Mrs. C. S. Spangler of White City reportedly mounted a barrel and slipped a rope about her neck before stepping from the barrel in an apparent self inflicted death early Sunday morning in Council Grove.
A new road-surfacing method using oil after grading will be tested this summer on US 36 in Jewell county. Contracts for the nine mile oil and gravel project will be let at Council Grove today, as reported by the Belleville Telescope.
A Jewell, County Republican note mocks Arthur Brisbane for writing as if he knows everything, describing his high self opinion as a comfort to him.
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