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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1929
Page
2
A 1904 Journal item surveys farm electrification across the United States, noting half a million electrified farms and the shift from lighting to powering machinery. It highlights improving roads, radios, and telephones as drivers of rural modernization while urging stronger road laws to cut auto deaths and protect cautious drivers.
Decatur Georgia widow of a locomotive engineer killed when an oil truck collided with the train won 13500 damages from the truck owner. The Morning Tribune calls this a precedent case, noting drivers must fully stop at crossings and are accountable as railroads or engineers for grade crossing accidents.
The article argues against free trade by highlighting how tariffs support farmers and industrial states. It warns that removing tariffs would lower prices, harm producers, and threaten factory employment and wages, stressing that U.S. progress has come under tariff protection for manufacturers farmers and workers.
San Francisco Chronicle cites Eugene J. Young describing a weekly dispatch tally of 160 executions for counterrevolution. Peasants who had gained wealth resisted state controls are named along with priests and others who traded outside state cooperatives.
Dispatches describe shootings of 75 peasants without trial in one district and a priest with five peasants in another for agitating against Soviet rural policy. Demonstrations against the government grow, peasants press for rights, and critics warn the Stalin regime will be crushed with death as the social experiment unfolds toward crisis.
Owners of real estate in Drainage District No 1 Republic County Kansas are notified of the annual meeting to elect one board of supervisors member for five years and to transact other business. The meeting is Saturday December 21 1929 at 2 pm at W P Shivvers office Candia Kansas as designated by the district board.
Frank Eastman sold the sandwich shop and equipment to Roy O Noble of Belleville this week after a year at the south side square. The Eastman family will move to Idaho to farm.
Local notices show Miss Geneva Johnson departed for Lat via last week where she is employed. Other items include wanted to buy stock pigs, sale of dairy cattle and stock, rental of a seven room modern house in Scandia, and local business appeals to patronize Scandia merchants.
Mr. and Mrs. Parleé Plotner and Jeanne spent Saturday in Concordia with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Preble.
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