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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1900
Page
8
Continuation ad notes stock clearance for ladies wear including shirt waists and crash skirts. Emphasizes dramatic price cuts on dimities and assorted fabrics with many items reduced to fractions of a dollar. Also mentions high prices paid for hides.
Local items report Whitney's Department Store promotions in Concordia. Community updates include teaching in District 88, cattle shipments to Kansas City, visits from out-of-town friends, lectures by Dr. Swenson, storm damage near town, and a cautionary tale about mistreating horses with a moral about restraint and care.
Courland notes report Mr and Mrs A J Sanders visiting relatives in Belleville on Tuesday. Stagg of Pawnee Oklahoma visiting the Staffords. Slater and Roberts passed through en route to Talmo. A social dance at W W Pinkerton's last Friday. Picnic near Scandia on Thursday. W B Lower in Belleville Tuesday. Chas Neil promoted to porter at Commercial Hotel. Dr Forbes in Courtland again. Mrs Mary Ogborn hosting visiting relatives. Miss Maude Patterson of Formoso visiting Amy Hoyt. Mrs A E Cummings week with relatives in presentente. Clarley Pilcher moved to country. new occupant Fred Pilcher. A party at R Whitley's last Saturday. about 100 attendance.
Mr Ollie Tate has a new house and Truman Baily drove to Concordia midweek. Local folks report hay baling, rain, and repairs at Stony Point school house by Quinn Kelly. Several families visit relatives, attend picnics, and make small home improvements. News includes lessons, temperance events, and notes from Belleville and Clyde, with weather quirks from a storm and a lightning strike on a wheat stack.
Minnesota alone yields about 80 million bushels of wheat, roughly one thirty seventh of world production, with two thirds export. North Dakota produced 55 million, South Dakota 42 million, and Oregon 24 million bushels in 1898, as the Dakotas push toward their full productive capacity.
The elevation of Sir Richard Webster to master of the rolls leaves England unrepresented in its great law offices. Sir Robert Finlay becomes attorney-general as a Scot and Sir Edward Cargone solicitor-general as an Irishman the first to hold the post in both Ireland and England.
A floating variety theater will be towed along the coast from one watering place to another for the coming summer season in an English initiative.
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