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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1938
Page
8
Citizens observe economic rants in a local column while noting wheat dockage and political symbols. The piece imagines voters, merchants and crowd growth as a spring show returns with visitors from distant states and a sense of national debt.
The article discusses farmers abandoning wheat due to drought and winter kill, and cites solutions like adapted wheat varieties, better farming practices, and insect control. It notes crop insurance reserves and government loans to stabilize supplies and prices, reducing volatility and aiding national adjustment. It also records campaign remarks by Roy Hamilton and counterpoints by Chas. Bigler. A vacation group from Kansas City, Kansas travels to Colorado.
The Kansas school for flock inspectors meets September 6 to 8 at Kansas State College in Manhattan with a program on management and recent experiments. Wiring advice urges future ready installations. Wheat consumption has fallen from about five and a half to four bushels per person since 1900. Early seeding harms next year's yield. seed only what pasture needs. A KSAC radio series from September 6 explores daughters going to college. Local items include visits and a county fair attendance by residents in Belleville and nearby areas.
A Sunday outing to Fairbury ended with a Chevrolet coach colliding into a ditch after a truck passed and an oncoming car appeared. No one aboard was seriously injured. The group included Mr and Mrs C C Culler and family and Mr and Mrs George Jeandebeur and Ada.
The two lightweights Herman Gann and Carl McDowell will wrestle at the gym north of Oscar Freed's on Wednesday the 20th. Also notes on school term start dates, horse loss, local employment, tree trimming, a camel death, and deputy sheriff appointment.
Mr and Mrs C C Cummings with Mrs A C Freed returned Monday night from a ten day visit in Colorado. Mr and Mrs J R Storer were guests of Mr and Mrs Ed Kallman and family on Friday evening.
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