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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1900
Page
5
In this week’s sale advertisement readers are shown discounts on wash goods 10 yards for Simpson prints 25c summer underwear 500 yards check shirting two pairs ladies hose 20c and light prints corsets shirt waists fall ginghams and school hose. Children and boys 2 piece suits marked down from 2.50 to 7.00 now 98c to 2.75. Oat meal 10 pounds 25c.
A miscellany of community items from Belleville area: prices paid for produce, social at Thomas Williams, Churns canvassed by Hartman of Scandia, and travels of residents like Wm Tinker to Portland. School reports include Miss May Alkire teaching Red Top District No.112 and Nels M. Nelson teaching District 88. Edgar E. Baird named county superintendent. Various local incidents, repairs, births, illnesses, and public notices follow, with reflections on crops from a Kansas traveler's view and notes on Dr. Marcotte and hydrophobia concerns.
Items from Courland note a horse loss in town, a new house being built for A N Smith, visits from Belleville and Illinois, a Democratic convention trip, a birthday surprise for Fern Haskett, a band boy horse theft, a forthcoming picnic at the Swedish Lutheran church near Kackley with Dr Swenson expected, and various family news.
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