District 8 and 7 community notes update
Weather turned cooler last week as residents share small town updates. Anna Anderson sells remaining wheat crop while neighbors visit kin in Scandia and Republic. Ed Wood travels to Lebanon for a death, and John Sothers attends the Belleville fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Anderson
Albin, Isaacson
John
Scandia
C. G. Anderson
Concordia
Sarah Price
Republic
Inc. Sothers
Ed Wood
Lebanon
John Sothers
Belleville
Ollie Bettis
Local News Briefs From Union County
Miss Margaret Marshall is sick with tonsillitis and Kenneth Thomas harvested eleven bushels of wheat this week. The area has cool weather. Frank Goodwin and Mrs Sander son with children returned from Norton. Henry Strong and Mrs Ed Strong visited Emery Hall family from Barn es Kans. Mrs Emery Johnson and children visited with sister Flora Howard. D F Housholder and wife returned home from their Norton visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norton
Henry Strong
Ed Strong
Barnés Kans
Emery Hall
Emery Johnson
Belleville
Flora Howard
D. F. Housholder
District 48 News Roundup and Local Visits
District 48 notes a string of Sunday visits and weekly chores. Families including Barleen Knoche Gile and colleagues, plus residents like Shirley Kelly Grace Gile and Anna Garbry, frequent neighbors in Selleville Norway Concordia Republic and Minersville. Conversations mention farm work haying and baled alfalfa deliveries this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Garbry
Harley Bowling
Mildred
Fred Ames Jr
Frances Fickel
Lloyd Kelly
Norway
Big Free Fair at Topeka to Feature New Lighting
A Topeka fair Septembr 11 to 16 will showcase 400000 candle power lighting. Nitrogen gas filled lamps will illuminate all buildings making the event the most brilliant in the city’s history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Republic News Roundup From the County
Hobnob visitors and local happenings include Arthur Colelazier and I Bowersox selling hogs to Hill in Belleville. Vera Konovaisky ill with grippe. Mrs Emma Banks of Belleville hosted a visit by Mr and Mrs H O Marshall and Mr and Mrs Emery Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belleville
Vera Konovaisky
Emma. Banks
Johnny Jones Exposition Brings New York Sights to Topeka
The Big C Free Fair in Topeka hosts the Johnny Jones Exposition September 11 to 16 featuring The Whip and a lineup of acts. Animal shows hippodrome wild West shows Rat Alma weighing 7265 pounds midget circus mir show train lions mind readers and Jones congress of living novelties headline the attractions.
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Oney Island
Kansas
Topeka
Alma
Ivisco Exposition
Jones’ Congress of Living Novelties
Ado Bea
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Scandia. Lumber Co
Scandia, Kans
DR. Miles
Miles
Lewis J. Cutter
Marietta, Ohio
Charley Almquist
John Thomas
Carl Bengon
Ford
Jacksons
Will
Bert Barrett
R. D. Ep
V. Plott
Smith Center
Ick
Union News
Margaret Marshall
Kenneth Thomas
Frank Goodwin
Sander
Sheebeegeggy
Chas. Barleen
Frank Knoche
Ke, Ad. Bartletts
Shirley Kelly
Mack Griffe
Grace Gile
of Selleville
Tom Giles
Will Wilson
Frank Nicholl
W. A. Gile and Son
Walter
Ayers
Louella Noble
Ciling
Mondaay
Bb. m
Jim Adams
Baby Ire
Harry Walter
Robt. Hyder
Harry Giles
Frank Knocke
T. J. Charles
Mary Jansky
Chas. Lewis
John Loofborrows
Tom Gile
T. S
E. Morgans
Minersville
Ora Bowen
Arthur Colelazier and
I. Bowersox
Mrs. Emery Hall
Renton Housholder
Mrs. Cromwell
Lincoln
Arthur Brown
Alfred Kallman
Homes
Bert Bowen
Rydal
Union
Republic Co
R. L. Hall
Hattie Grover
Murray Mikesell
Wilma Larson
Freedom
Guy Strong
E. B. Halls
A.L. Larson
Kansas State Fair Association
L. M. Perwell
Phil. Eastman
Topera
Mammoth Midway
Coney Island
Ten Acres
Duroc-Jersey
Wilson
Lillian Carson Murray
Dixieland Minstrels
Nelson
American Hippodrome
Fred Owens
Congress of Living Wonders
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