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Local notes from Scandia Belleville and nearby towns
Walter Preble A L Coleman and son Harold of Scandia travel through Belleville in the Preble touring car. Rev Powell visiting from Colorado on way to Paola. Sherman Marsh and C W Jones report 20 bushel wheat per acre near Belleville. Mrs Della Flynn departs for northern Montana with husband a civil engineer. John Ingebretson of Norway visits county seat. Postmaster Chas Wilson and Chas Elliot family visit Belleville Scandia. Wm C Nichol from Lincoln on business and visiting. Cuba delegation witnesses in the Broncilius case. Hugh Etter from western India visits with sister-in-law Mary Gile. Mayor Nelson Tom West Regina Maxell Bertha Wilson from Scandia attend band concert. County records show county graduates rise to 1,867 in twenty years. 1892 class 15, 1894 class 114, last year 113. Supt Slopansky predicts county’s largest class next year. Rev Lynn Canfield of Belleville preaches at Rydal Schoolhouse with Epworth Leaguers. Co Atty Vance Sheriff Huntington and Nelson Ward transact business in Cuba. Normaite localsJulia Larson Anna Edith Anderson Kate McGlashan Ruth Blackburn visit home folks. Railroads told by commission houses to stop accepting stock cattle due to inferior quality from ongoing drought. L D Mosher of Lincoln Nebraska visits parents Jonathan Taylor and relatives.