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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1938
Page
5
The note lists a church supper featuring beans potatoes and vegetable salad followed by ost-kaka with lingonberries and fruit-soppa. The meal will be served cafeteria style with prices set as popular choices for each dish.
United Beethven Church and Scandia schedule a homecoming in Norway and Scandia with 10 am Sunday School, an 11 am morning sermon by Dr. V C Priddle, a 1 30 pm worship call, a 7 pm C E and preaching, and a Tuesday Ladies Aid potluck social.
Crider's Cash Market The Scandia Journal Sanborn Lumber Co and Skeller Oil Co present Christmas window displays. Dates and places for the other two weeks will be announced in later issues. Community Club committees urge everyone to join in making Scandia's Christmas activities a success.
Local families shared holiday gatherings and guests over Thanksgiving weekend. Rev J E Englund, Dr Jay C Everett, and many others visited relatives in Creston, Des Moines, Clay Center, Wayne, and Rackley with dinners and Sunday calls.
Beloit residents hosted and visited relatives and friends during the Thanksgiving holiday. Guests included the Watsons, Fram Larsen, Muths, and Neander family, with multiple dinners and weekend visits across Republic, Belleville, Manhattan, and Kin caid. Several gatherings featured quilting, college students home from Kansas State and Brown Mackie, and local engagements at the Rydell, Preble, and Rasmussen households.
Derbin Blair of Beloit transacted business in Scandia on Wednesday this week. A call was received from him while in town. Friday visitors included Mrs. George Simmons and Bernice to Mrs. H. E. Resene. Miss Louise Carstensen of Belleville called at the W. P. Shivvers home Monday morning.
Washington notes Fortune Magazine poll shows 75 percent of the wealthy and 65 percent of the unemployed believe profits drive recovery. Only seven percent favor liberalism as government control. Public letters praise the anti communism inquiry while civ lib notes describe picket clashes and union card demands.
Cap off election coverage notes Ratner plans rest after campaigning and a Caribbean cruise returning in December. It details the election result with Republicans gaining control of the house by 106 of 125 seats and the senate's status, while Ratner outlines post election programming for the upcoming legislative session.
Washington County farmer Harry Meier reports a concrete packer built by his brother improved alfalfa stands and seed growth. Mitchell County agent Leonard Neff notes contour farming by W W Adams increased Kafir yield and fodder on 27 acres, with some soil saved. Governor Ratner faces major appointments and staff realignments as early tests of his administration.
In 1936 Kansas elected 26 Republicans and 15 Democrats. Payne Ratner became governor signaling a likely 25 to 15 or 24 to 16 Senate split, with the legislature remaining Republican. Voters backed GOP aims including homestead lien repeal social welfare tax cuts and food tax repeal. Alf Landon named U.S. delegate to Lima Peru conference. former governor departs until year’s start.
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