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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1919
Page
4
The Big Locals Scandia Picnic runs July 30 to August 1 featuring Pure cider vinegar and listings for Star Grocery and Scandia Merc fresh fruit on Saturdays. Personal items note Ruth Ahrens ill, a birth to Mr and Mrs Fred Ward on July 8, plus visits and travels among local families and a Studebaker purchase by FE A Berggren.
The item notes fresh fruit availability every Saturday at Mrs. Nels Nelson and mentions several weekend visits. Scandia Lumber Co reports Colorado lump coal on the track and promises hard coal soon. Mr. and Mrs. Ellingson visited Belleville, and Mr. and Mrs. Tomlinson of Corning came to visit Mrs. Tomlinson’s sister Mrs. Mapes. Stanley Schwahn joins The Swift Packing Co in Kansas City. Superintendent E. Malott shifts to harvest work with L. E. Cooper.
Pansy Bowling came back Tuesday from Colorado Springs after a six week visit with her sister Mrs. Harry Hollenbeck.
Mrs. C. K. E. Wyman arrived Tuesday evening after visiting her parents in Collingwood Ontario and relatives in Sarnia Ontario Canada.
J. B. Beames left Lincoln Monday and headed to Concordia for eye treatment. He has become totally blind and supporters hope treatment will restore his sight.
L R Welch arrived from Kansas City last Saturday and stayed until Monday when Mrs Welch and Dorothy returned home. Mildred remained for a longer visit and stayed at the Emil Forsberg home.
Notices urge theatergoers to place grocery orders before Saturday shows to avoid post performance rushes and delays at the counter. Businesses hope to fill orders by the time patrons head home.
Mrs Lottie Cooper of Sharon Springs Kansas visited her parents Mr and Mrs T J Mahaffey last week. She has three sons in the war service. Chester Cooper arrived in New York last Tuesday with his French bride Mlle Violette Tiburens. They wed in Paris May 17 and sailed home on the same transport as President Wilson.
The Journal notes receipt of The Booster edited by Walter B. Montgomery of Troy Kansas. The publication highlights the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway with state by state descriptions and contributions from national figures. It features a photo of General Pershing and credits Republic county citizens including Elizabeth Johnson for monument efforts.
The passage mentions a family active in the sixties supporting hard surface paving over the Rock Island highway. It highlights A. Q. Miller of Belleville as a pioneer road booster and current treasurer of the Pike Peak Op into Ocean Highway. other Republic County figures named are Sheriff J. H. Griffin and Harley Pierce.
Lyla Loring, known for taking and finishing Kodak pictures, adds a photo enlarger to her gear. She can enlarge a small snapshot several times while preserving contrast and shading, inviting customers with Kodak photos to have them enlarged.
A plane flew over Scania on the Fourth en route to the Republic for a daytime exhibition. The pilot, whose home is in Colorado, had taken off from Kansas City with his machine and made stops along the way back.
S. G. Nelson visited his mother Mrs. Matilda Nelson and uncle N. P. Peterson last week. He recently received an honorable discharge after serving over five years, much of it in Honolulu.
Forty certificates were issued at the recent teachers examination. Thirty four went to women including Miss Edna Robison and Miss Dorothy Street of Scandia.
Miss Edna Robison, who earned a second grade certificate at the recent teachers examination, will teach her first term for a district six miles northwest of Republic.
A large crowd of Scandia residents attended the Republic celebration with a dandy day noted. The day featured an airplane flight as the main attraction.
Rev. J. C. Boyce will go to Belleville Sunday as moderator for the congregation there. He will also deliver a sermon that evening.
Mrs W. C. Preble and her daughter Marcell traveled to Republic on Sunday for a several days visit with Mrs. Preble's mother, Mrs E. Sims, extending a modest family reunion.
Evelyn Nesbit has returned to the screen in The Woman Who Gave at the Princess Theatre next Tuesday. The former vaudeville star turned dramatic actress studied the screen greats and, with William Fox, brings vivid magnetism to the new production.
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