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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1928
Page
2
The Scandia Journal of Scandia Kansas lists a yearly subscription price of $1.50. Published by J W Plotner & Son, the paper notes second class mail status and postal details.
Supreme Court ruling in a Baltimore and Ohio case states pedestrians and drivers must protect themselves at rail crossroads. Justice Holmes writes that if a person cannot be sure a train is near they must stop, get out, and look, accepting risk if they ignore signals.
Answers present a historical view: about 33 percent tenancy today. Free land worth 160 acres vanished around 1900. 1880 25 percent, 1890 28 percent, 1900 35 percent tenancy. Rent-as-profit motivated farmers to stay on improved land. Eighty percent of present owners bought their farms. twenty percent acquired by marriage gift inheritance or homesteading. Forty four percent were tenants before owning. The tenant problem lies with a permanent tenant class lacking ambition to own. The usual landowner status after tenancy is mortgaged owner. The dean is R. A. Seaton.
London reports that by the will of Henry Ruffer of Ladbroke Grove, his horses, as beneficiaries, are not to be sold. Trustees must fund their care for 21 years, including two good seeds of corn daily, ample grazing, shoe removal, and regular dental care twice yearly.
Local notice advertises Russell Moe as a truck hauling provider with quick service and a phone contact 179 for inquiries.
The War department ordnance branch reports new artillery advances with longer ranges heavier projectiles and greater mobility. The 75-millimeter gun and pack howitzer lead a lineup including a 155-millimeter field gun and improved 37-millimeter infantry weapon. The 75-millimeter rifle fires 15 pounds to 15090 yards with 45 degree elevation and is horse drawn. transportable like the old model. The pack howitzer and a 105-millimeter rifle accompany the system. the new howitzer matches French 75 range and is light enough for difficult terrain.
The Department of Agriculture notes the American Indian contributed eight principal native vegetables to early crops including beans corn peppers pumpkins squash tomato potato and sweet potato. It also lists 24 Old World crops and asserts the native crops have greater value overall.
The Harmony a 200 ton Moravian Mission ship once known as Gin and Bibles has been sold and is to be broken up after over fifty years in Arctic service. The vessel sailed Labrador stations since 1771 and was last seen departing Dartmouth a year ago amid Eskimo celebrations.
Leila Mae Dugger Fraser, born near Formosa Kansas December 26 1886, taught in Jewell County and studied at County Normals and Kansas State Teachers College. She married John E Fraser in 1910. their son Harold born 1915. After moves to Nevada and California she died January 2 1928 in Woodland California at age 41 leaving husband, son, and extended family. Her life as a community leader in church and clubs is celebrated in a memorial tribute praising her devotion and influence.
The article notes a growing Black population in Paris after the war gravitating to Montmartre. It describes a neighborhood nicknamed Charleston Coty where many Afro Caribbean and American migrants work as dancers musicians and staff in local venues.
It It Doesn t Pay Albany New York presumably Albion J Eckert Jr will be careful next time he boasts of his speedy automobile He advertised in the papers that he had driven 305 4 miles in 343 minutes Now his license has been revoked.
Messrs Cline Kalleg and Francis Rezek and Miss Gerte Magnusser were very delightfully entertained at the Otto Nelson home, Wednesday evening, Jan. 4.
In the Probate Court of Kansas, Oscar A. Berggren and Victor A. Berggren are named administrators with the will annexed for the estate of F. A. Berggren, deceased. Creditors must present claims within one year from November 30, 1927, or be barred. Henry H. VanNatta, Probate Judge, issued the letters.
A reader chides The Journal over a prior editorial and payment notices. The letter blames Cal for debt reduction efforts and mocks sensational methods for newspaper attention while suggesting readers question delinquent accounts.
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