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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1923
Page
4
Local items report prices at Slaughter’s and Star Grocery with gift shop offerings. Residents travel for holidays, including Miss Josephine Fullen in Beettleville and Joseph Jennings visiting San Diego. A Christmas program is planned in district 84, and Star Grocery decorates a curbside Christmas tree with lights.
Fred Hauserman offers to buy all kinds of hides and furs at the highest market price this winter. He invites buyers to meet at Jake Weis dagel home to arrange transactions.
Erick FE Erickson entertained many friends and neighbors at a Monday evening gathering. After lively conversation a pleasant lunch was served and guests departed agreeing the evening was enjoyable.
Community notes show various local items including fish supply at Katsas, holiday school closure for two weeks, visits by residents to Concordia and Omaha, lost glasses, grain hauling work, Plymouth Rock roosters for sale, handmade gifts, a Kansas Power lineman injury, and upcoming Prayer Week starting January 6 with details to follow.
Poem excerpt dated 1923 from Western Newspaper Union urges joyous ringing of bells to celebrate Christ’s birth and welcome his stay, invoking hill and valley and earth and sky filled with cheer.
A reflective verse recounts holiday customs with bells garlands and twinkling lights then notes the refrain of returning to ordinary life after feasts and frolics mentioning Susan Coolidge.
The piece compares English and American Christmas customs noting the burning log on Christmas Eve carol singing mistletoe kisses and plum pudding as central traditions for families and churches during the holiday season.
C E. Friend announces a forthcoming event at Slaughter's garage featuring alcohol sales in Kansas. The unusual promotional setup aims to draw attention ahead of a scheduled track meet in a few days.
An 80 acre farm is offered for sale located three miles north of Standia school house with a note that time is short. The item appears in a local notice column among community updates and other short items.
East half of the west half of section 1 township 8 range 5 totaling 160 acres offered for sale by Mary Rosene Emma Isaacson and Anna Boman present owners Sealed bids to Bank of Scandia Scandia Kansas due December 31 1923 with a $100 bid bond Sellers reserve right to reject all bids.
A brief note announces a Christmas gift shop located upstairs over the Concordia Cash Store selling cards boxes wrappings tags and seals for holiday gifts.
Public utilities commission schedules Rock Island trains to stop at Lawrence Kansas on the Union Pacific line between Topeka and Kansas City aiding travelers to the university city. A Man of Action stars Douglas MacLean and is shown at the Princess Theatre Friday and Saturday with a plot about a bored millionaire who becomes a crook for a day and wins back his sweetheart.
The message extols hospitality by serving guests and loved ones with food bought locally, presenting warmth and generosity as the core of generous hosting. It invites readers to choose items available nearby to best express care through nourishment.
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