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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1930
Page
6
The Swedes under manager Ole Frazier travel to Nelson next Sunday for the last game of the season. With the same lineup used all season they expect an easy victory as Nelson sits last in the six team standings. Frazier aims to end the slump and finish the season undefeated thereafter.
Scandia residents plan to attend the Old Settlers Picnic and Reunion at White Rock. The Scandia-Formosa baseball game, an address by Congressman Charles Sparks, and a home talent play are on the day’s program. Sparks speaks in the afternoon, followed by the game and evening performance. Free activities include a big picnic dinner and supper.
Over the past week Scandia has seen extensive repainting and cleaning as businesses recover. Green's pool hall has been repainted and papered, the Midget Lunch has freshened interior, the Haggman and Wires building front is being repainted after fire damage, the Night Hawk Cafe interior is refinished, and John Freeburg redecorates his hardware and furniture store.
Layne Western Company finished testing a new well for the Scandia municipal water system. The rig identified three potential sites two north of the Rock Island tracks and west of the Missouri Pacific line and one south of the Rock Island. The city council has not chosen a site yet.
Dr C V Hageman spoke on the infantile paralysis situation in Scandia and Republic County explaining cure efforts and prevention. Guest speakers included F W Stukenbroeker and Ed Nordorf at the J C O F Hall dinner.
Gary Cooper known for The Virginian returns Friday and Saturday at the Princess in Only the Brave. The film, with Mary Brian, follows a Union cavalry captain who volunteers for spy duty behind Confederate lines, where love and duty clash before a happy ending.
Mrs Celia Kinken and daughter Pansy Bowling of Ionia Kansas visited the farm house on Mrs Kinkens farm. Harold Bowling also looked over the farm. J J Lewis and Ray and Roy visited their daughter Florence Lowman in Jamestown. Local residents and relatives traveled to various towns and attended events including a bridge project south of Lige Goodwin farm, a baby visit, and a country club dance in Concordia.
Plant pathology notes corn seed does not control corn smut as the organism lives in soil and attacks during growth. Agronomy advises bone meal and superphosphate on wheat except fertile soils, with nitrogen on poorer soils, applied with a drill. Dairying section cites ground wheat as rival to corn in dairy rations up to half the grain mixture, warning about palatability and gummy texture if overused. Also mentions silos storing immature or surplus crops and readers visiting local farms. Social notes include visits by Gust Brothers, Ray Tingstrom family, Mire Freda Sandell, and others, plus a new Frigidaire installed for John and Edith Vandeveer.
George Bancroft appears as Joe Forziati in Ladies Love Brutes at the Princess Thea Tuesday and Wednesday. The film adapts Par don My Glove by Zoe Akins, with Bancroft facing a labor agitator played by Stanley Fields in a crisis over a child and a lover.
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