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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1929
Page
2
BeV Plotner and Son Publishers listed at the Scandia Post Office as a second class mail matter. Subscription rate per year is $1.50.
Mrs Philip Hammer and Mr C A Brew celebrate their twenty fifth wedding anniversary on Sunday January six with about sixty relatives and neighbors. E P Ahrens presented a money gift for future personal selection along with a carnation bouquet and a money gift from Mrs Ida Skagen of Vancouver. Attendees include J E Brewer A McGregor E A Carlgren P Pammer and numerous Brewer and Rodde family members.
Scandia High School girls basketball opened the season defeating Cuba 46 to 23 on Friday night January 4. Returning players Preble Dutton and Brewer led the scoring with new teammates Larson Mikesell Farlee and Mildred Larson forming a solid guard lineup. Coach formosia Kenneth Baird observed the squad showed potential despite limited practice and plans to refine plays for upcoming games.
U S immigration officers believe the Henry Amram and Juan Samano case has crippled a wide smuggling network operating from Reynosa across the Rio Grande. The two leaders were convicted and jailed for smuggling hundreds of Greeks Italians into the United States at a rate of 100 dollars per person. Samano a former Reynosa magistrate and Amram fluent in multiple languages traveled through Europe and Mexico before joining the gang. Investigations aim to uncover ties to New York Europe and other Mexican regions as tales from captured aliens corroborate the leaders’ role.
Rev Thomas H Whelpley of Chelsea Presbyterian acts as a cab driver on Saturdays to learn parishioners habits. He married a couple in clerical garb and then returned to the wheel guiding the couple to their new home in the rain.
James Brackett, once sentenced to death for murder and reprieved, hanged himself after parole. He spoke of loneliness and missing friends at Sing Sing, and Salvation Army officer Capt. Stanley Shepard arranged burial and avoided Potter's field.
In Visalia California female courthouse employees led by deputy county recorder Edna Dewey Harking began wearing red suspenders after male clerks and deputies appeared in the courthouse with galluses. The trend, described as an epidemic, shows women embracing the fashion as a humorous rivalry.
Chas Walter visited Hastings and Lincoln on business and family trip. Leona Kelly returns to Scandia to resume school. Dr. Hageman visits Lloyd Kelly and Bert Fulcomer. Mrs. Kelly shows slow flu recovery. Tate pair visit Lester Tate home. Wrights return from Nortonville. Gile visits friends. Vera Dodge helps at Lloyd Kelly home. Cold snap and drifting snow hinder rural carriers. Orville Siebenborn improves at St. Joseph. Mrs. Maxie Newell of Mt. Home Idaho ill with erysipelas, staying with Cynthia Howe in Vancouver. longtime local resident remembered.
Mrs Arthur Lorimer and her children visited Mrs Maude Young on Friday while Mr Lorimer tore down an old windmill bought from Mr Frank Young. Mr and Mrs Lou Angle called on Lloyd Kelly Sunday afternoon.
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