Letters From Scandia and Beyond Echo Community Ties
Personal notes recount family history in Scandia New York and Milwaukee Wis and praise Corinne Naslund Hunts writing. Descriptions cover grandparents Rufus and Louise Whitney and Lee Whitney and Mrs John Cullers, burial on a hill, and a 1949 Scandia trip. Also includes Esther Malmstrom obituary and a Hawaiian Islands tour diary with Pearl Harbor and Arizona memorial visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scandia
Esther Malmstrom
Walker Methodist
Minneapolis
Iowa
Nebraska
Michigan
Minnesota
A.r.boman
P.S
de. Swan
Ruby
San Jose
Calif
Hawaiian Islands
Honolulu
East Ridge
Pearl Harbor
Arizona
National Cemetery
Winona Flesher
Jennifer
Winona
Vic Andersons
Winifred
Madeline
Regional School Boards Prepare For New Term In August
August plans finalized for Pike Valley USD 426 and Scandia Norway and Courtland districts. Superintendent Ernest Milton announces faculty lists and assignments as 108 high school students pre enroll, with teachers including his wife at Courtland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Milton
U.S.C. 426
Courtland
Delbert Aspegren
Victor Hurtig Jr
Ruchard Larson
Loren Carlgren
Glenn Loring
Marvin Bergstrom
Eugene Kadel
Earl Melby
Willis Trussell
Rosana Fredrickson Kindy
Sally Spiichal
Karen Johnson
Elvie Konovalsky
Laverne Currie
Mildred Moore
Frances Gritten
Susan Camarena
H.S
Ronald Streit
Nellie Milton
G. Drew Peer
Don McChesney
Kenneth Schoshke
Paul Chopp
Barbara Janasek
Elvie Johnson
Erryn Landis
Raymond
Public Auctions Planned for September
Miss Vernice Swanson has a public auction on September 9 with a sale the following Saturday on September 11 for tools and equipment by Mrs. Irvin Currie. Alberta Kemper of Los Angeles visits sister Mrs. Lyell Ocobock this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vernice Swanson
Irvin Currie
Alberta Kemper
Los Angeles
Calif
Lyell Ocobock
Washington and small business by C. Wilson Harder
Opinion piece arguing the decline of major newspapers due to rising costs unions and new TV competition. Warns of reduced press freedom and media monopoly, contrasting with the enduring need for local community papers despite industry upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald Tribune
W. Harder
Hospital notes and Christian Athlete Camp report
Jack Moss released from Republic County hospital. Mrs. Floyd Johnson admitted last week. Mrs. Carl Veteto admitted to St Josephs hospital last week. Leverett Hobson home after St Josephs stay. Jim Melby Jin McDonald David Scrivner Kent and Thayne Larson attended a fellowship camp for Christian athletes in Colorado Springs last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Moss
Republic County Hospital
Floyd Johnson
Carl Veteto
St.Joseph's Hospital
Leverett Hobson
St. Joseph's
Jim Melby
Jin McDonald
David Scrivner
Kent
Thayne Larson
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Colorado Springs
American Legion Auxiliary Meets and Community Giving
The Albert Isaacson James Larsen Auxiliary Unit 193 met at the Legion Hall on August 18 1971. The unit donated 2.50 to Community Club and gave cookies to veterans hospital projects and 21 dozen cookies to Topeka hospital. Officers were installed and prizes awarded. The group plans a field day and meets again September 22. An air show at the fair features Vietnam veteran pilots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
Albert Isaacson
James Larsen
Legion Hall
Veterans Hospital
Topeka
Glen Scrivner
Pee Wee
Jennifer Garst
Morris Moravek
Billy Farrell
Douglas Mitchell
Ethel Modlin
Charley Stolander
Hilton Waite
Homer Cardwell
Darrell Garst
Duaine Green
Slade
Belleville meeting aims to form Agricultural Fair Association
From 84 years ago August 12 1887 S C Savage notes a Belleville gathering to organize an Agricultural Fair Association and hold a fair this fall. A committee will contact leading farmers for help. Capt Lewis Jones faced a gnats attack on returning from Scandia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S.C. Savage
Belleville
Lewis Jones
Scandia
Wilder
Page
Wilson
Chandler
Rock Island Bridge
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Frances I
F.C.) Smith
Cass St
Milwaukee, Wis
Malmstrom
N. Cedar
Colorado Springs, Colo
Larson
JW. Nelson
Corinne Naslund Hunt
Witten
Pike Valley U.S.D
Ernest H. Milton
Scandia High School
Opal Allday
Helen Folkerts
Vicki Sue Hammer
Ernest Heikes
Jeanette Heikes
Dean Hobelmann
Dennis Hutchinson
Peter Karlin
Luella Nystrom
May Robison
Eileen Sutton
Kenneth Pitchford
Vo. Ag
Eldon Whitmer
Bob Miller
Wyona Spannenberg
Kindy'tn
Berniece Shirley
Winifred McEuen
Esther Anderson
Loretta Boman
Mary Johnson
Marie Elima
Pamela Hutchinson
Stan Estes
Harold Ishneca
Billy Clark
Larry
Shirley Johnson
Ernest Kirk
Max Muth
Ole Hansen
Dewayne Johnson
Dorothy Johnson
Eugene Kelly
Norway
Cecil Dickerhoof
Bonnie Elniff
Olive Fort
Leora Spitler
Bernice Thompson
Loren Florell
S. Ruben Johnson
Clenn Veach
Harvey Pounds
Elsie Christensen
Marjorie Davis
Mary Lewellyn
Glenna Thomas S.high
Arlene Swanson
Mary Harris
Blanche Nelson
Washington and
C. Wilson Harder
U.S
Sen. Gruening
Alaska
National Federation of
The
New York Times
America
Down the
Richard Stroade
K-State
Kansas
Cody
Stanley Swanson
Kindsborg
Amana
Lutheran Church
Gaylord Johnson
Steven
Chris Peterson
Bloomington, Indiana
Carl E. Larson
Edgar Isaacson
Fort Mose
Ervin M Davis
Kansas Veteran's Commission
KVC
Court House
Marysville
Christian
Cel
Viet Nam
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