Providence Chapel News Briefs From Scandia Area
Local notes report visits by Celia Kuiken family and others, weather events from last week snows and a blizzard, births announced for Joan Elizabeth Young and Robert Leonard Fike, several flu cases, school absences, and community helpers including Bill Milner and Emily Drovetta. Roads blocked by drifting snow disrupted travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celia Kuiken
Pansy Bowling
Marie Steavens
Harold Bowling
Minnie
Cora
Bill Milner
George Fike
Glenn Eastman
Thomas
Mack
Joan Elizabeth
Alex Young
Seattle
Washington
Young
Zara Persnott
Glen Eastman
Emery Berry
Scandia
Roy Fike
Webster City
Iowa
Robert Leonard
Dr. Hageman
Nona Clair Milner
Chas. Berggren
Typing awards earned by two S. H. S. students
In the typewriting class Frank Nimocks and Mildred Rydvall earned certificates of proficiency requiring thirty words per minute. Seven other students also scored over twenty-five wpm in the same test.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Nimocks
Mildred Rydvall
Famous Vigilante Bell Returns to San Francisco
The priceless Vigilante bell from Fort Gunnybags, purchased in 1856, now hangs in the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce marine department. Gift from the First Baptist church of Petaluma rekindles memories of the city’s rough era and Civil War tensions, with historic use and daring attempts to silence it described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Fort Gunnybags
Chamber
Commerce
First Baptist Church of
Petaluma
Robert Newton Lynch
W. T.coleman
Boston
Conroy & Connors
Old Fort
First Baptist
Future Seaplanes to Be Less Cumbersome
Langley Field Virginia experts from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics report pontoons on seaplanes can be lighter yet still withstand landing shocks. Tests show actual pressure on floats is seven psi versus the required fifteen, allowing material savings and better air performance and endurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Langley Field
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Navy
Wants Typist Job, But Has Only One Hand
Detroit woman Flora Parker seeks work as typist or stenographer. Born in London with one arm from an early accident, she later taught school, married, had a child, and now insists she can be efficient on the typewriter despite her disability. She credits resilience and speed to her single missing limb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Flora Parker
London
Caninda
Z’acker
Walker
Flora
Rioters Kill Sacred Cow Beloved by Pilgrims in Simla
Six people died and nine were injured near Simla when pilgrims tried to stop a group from laughing at a cow deemed sacred. The cow was killed and a riot followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simla
India
Here
Canned Music Provokes Paris Critics discusses reform
Paris critics urge action against canned music as they condemn machine played violins phonograph orchestras and the use of mechanical ensembles in film houses. The critics warn the trend endangers the classical art and demand swift measures to curb its spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Divorce Testimony Shows Husband as Household Servant
Kenneth Guick McClurg testified he was dominated by his wife and rendered as a full time servant, cooking meals driving chauffering and maintaining the home for two years while pursuing business. His wife Lillian Stanford McClurg accuses him of infidelity and cruelty. he denies. Judge Turney took the case under advisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Be ‘Ing
Kenneth Gulick McClurg
New Yorker
Raymond I. Turney
McClurg
Turks Require Pews and Shoes in Mosques
Istanbul reports a government commission on religious reform orders Turks to wear shoes and sit in pews in mosques. Rugs will be replaced with altars and pews, organs and choirs to supplant the call to prayer, marking Kemal's westernizing move after fez abolition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Mustapha Kemal
Fez
How to Measure Fish Determine Length May Decide Case
Olympia Washington is in a fish length dispute after University of Washington scholars could not agree on the method. Judge Chester A Bachelor must decide whether Roy Jensen sold fish under the legal minimum. Dean John Cobb argues measurement should run from the V notch in the tail to the end of the lower fin tip. Professor Victor Smith cites state grid law ambiguity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olympia
Wash
University of Washington, Sages
Chester A. Bachelor
Victor Smith
John Cobb
College of Fisheries
Bachelor Np
Roy Jensen
Norway Township annual financial report 1928
F E Ames treasurer presents the Norway Township 1928 receipts and expenditures. Totals show cash in hand 263.18, total receipts 38 273.27 from county treasurer and miscellaneous sources, and total disbursements 37 337.60 with a closing cash balance of 935.67. Names of many local laborers, suppliers, and boards from the year are listed with amounts. The report is sworn January 10, 1929 before Justice J R Hugos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Ames
Norway Township
Co. Treas
Treas
E. E. Larson
James Siebenborn
B. Stensons
Home,Oil Co. Gas and Oil
Furgeson
E. A. Carlgren
Alex Scott
Norway State Bank
Joseph Melhuse
P. Shivvers
Scandia Journal
C. R. Walters
Benville
Russel Jacobson
N. P. Hanson
Carl Benson
John Jensen
Hall
C. E. Friend
Edward Isaacson
Robert Holgerson
C. F. England
Gile
Lester Thompson
Don Jensen
Ic. R. Walters
Chas
Siebenborn
J. L. Gile
Alva Gile
P. T. Gile
M. E. McGregor
W. E. Brewer
Orval Barleen
Vernon Wright
H. L. Gile
Standard Bridge Co
Joseph Melhus
Home Oil Co
Meet
E. A. Carlgen
Hageman & Wires
G. W. Wright
Home Lumber Co
Lbr
Crane & Co
E.A. Carlgren
Empire Plow Co
F. J. Panee
Jens Stensons
T. Gile
Chas. Siebenborn
Lester Tate
Prairie Dogs
A. C
Qival Barleen
L. O. Kelly
Paul Jensen
Edwin Isaacson
Russell Jacobson
Joe Johnson
R. Walters
L. Gile
C. A. Walters
M. L. Griffith
Amos Dulin
Levi Holgerson
England
Dra
Wks
Ory
Cc. R. Walters
Ioe Johnson
Eric Thompson
J. A. Carlgren
F. T. Gile
M.E. McGregor
Eric Erickson
Belleville
A. Carlgren
J. R. Hugos
Ins
Troge
Treas. Ag
State of Kansas
Republic County
Justice Peace
Local Social Notes and Moves in Clyde and Nearby
Miss Mabel Watts visited her parents in Clyde Kansas for the weekend. Bernice Loofbourrow spent Thursday with Mrs. Lloyd Kelly. Dr. Anna Rimel of Norway is ill with flu. Mr and Mrs Morris McGregor moved to Kackley last week as Morris bought the dray line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Mabel Watts
Clyde
Kansas
Bernice Loofbourrow
Lloyd Kelly
Anna Rimel
Norway
Morris McGregor
Kackley
Moris
Dray Line
Local Social Notes Highlight Visits and Family News
Mr and Mrs Charlie Walter visited the Clark Murphy home Sunday afternoon Miss Vera Dodge works at the Lloyd Kelly home and Mrs Kelly is improving H L Gile delivered hogs to Mr Chambers of Norway Tuesday Mr and Mrs Amos Duling visited Concordia Monday Jens Stensons spent Sunday with Vernon Wright Myron Christenser and wife welcomed a baby boy Highland Ladies Aid met with Mrs Ruth Kimmal Thursday next meeting with Mrs Harry Gile Lillie McGregor visited the Lloyd McGregor home Nick Pixley and family visited Concordia Saturday Martha Dodge has been ill but is improving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carney
Mabel Barleen
Charlie Walter
Clark Murphy
Vera Dodge
Lloyd Kelly
Kelly
H. L. Gile
Chamber’s
Norway
Amos Duling
Concordia
Jens Stensons
Vernon Wright
Myron Christenser
The-Highland
Aid
Ruth Kimmal
Harry Gile
Lillie McGregor
Lloyd McGregor
Nick Pixley
Martha Dodge
Oldest House in Paris Houses Laundry Business
The oldest house in Paris claims a pedigree to 1240 and sits near Notre Dame, now housing a laundry. The owner notes the building dates to Louis IX and it prominently displays the claim At the oldest house in Paris.
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Paris
Cathedral of Notre Dame
Louis TX
Open Mosque to Public Jerusalem
Sightseers may now enter the Great Mosque of Hebron, built over a cave claimed to hold the bodies of Abraham and Sarah, Rebecca, Jacob, and Leah, under new access.
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Jerusalem
Hebron
Abraham
Sarah
Gage
Rebecca
Jacob
Leah
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