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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1927
Page
2
Scandia Kansas edition notes XJ W Plotner and Son as publishers and that the paper is entered at the Scandia post office as second class mail matter.
For Sunday July 10 Sunday school starts at ten o clock with a study of the second lesson for the new quarter. Preaching follows at eleven. In the evening at City Hall park a patriotic pageant will be presented by youth from several churches. A quartet from the Lutheran church will sing. Rev Mahaffy is pastor.
The Amana Lutheran Church plans a Fourth Sunday after Trinity service in Swedish with gospel reading from es 7 1 6 and a patriotic park pageant in the evening. Confirmation is set for July 24 at 10 oclock led by Rev Chas Pehrson with morning worship and Sunday school as usual.
The Epworth Lake Park meeting includes morning worship at 11:00 and an open air patriotic program at 8:00 led by the pastor explaining the meeting. The Ladies Aid meets July 14 with refreshments from 5 to 10 PM. Committee chairing the service includes Mrs Larson Mrs Vandebeur Mrs Johnson and Mrs Lundberg. Everyone welcome.
The article discusses brick making from clay with wheat straw in a college experiment, then shifts to lightning energy and the power losses of transformers. It notes a 24 hour core loss in a hanging transformer, caused by magnetizing the iron at 60 cycles per second, representing about 1 to 2 percent of capacity.
Notes from Scandia and area include Misses Verne Rockhold Opal Nordman Lavinia Garman at Belleville institute and oat yields of hundred bushels per acre. Ed Christian shipped stock to Kansas City with Bert Curran. top cattle price 7.90 per hundred. Excursion from Scandia to Beatprice. many named residents joyfully return from Lindsborg and Las Vegas visits. Roy Riggins leaves railroading for rural telephone line work. W Gulick to move grocery to front room with new shelving. Preston Gunn returns for harvest with wife after Las Vegas stay. Mrs Gunn formerly Rena Swanson seeks recovery at sanitarium. Subscription status asked.
A two reel silent film titled Million Dollars Pockets is in production in Manhattan and vicinity under U S Department of Agriculture supervision. E Kelley and C Cramer assisted by A E Oman and Roy Moore showcase gophers and underground runs to aid cooperative extension work in Kansas and other states. Also noted are visits by Mr and Mrs Tom Booth and granddaughter to the Cuthbertson home and a baseball matchup in Concordia as Hutchison Electric of Kansas City prepares to face the Concordia Travelers with St Marys pitcher Bushey, now with Boston, having an earlier loss to the Electrics.
Fragmentary note describes a Venice California inspired effort to drain canals and pave them for easier access from gondola rides. Mentions hollow bones of flying birds and a nod to advertisers.
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