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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1928
Page
5
School officials plan immediate changes to the building to relieve crowding in the high school. A new 20 by 30 foot temporary building will house manual training and agricultural classes. Seventh and eighth grades move to the general assembly hall with two new classrooms created. a former gymnasium becomes a classroom with elevated floor.
This week the marriage of Georgene Preble daughter of M A Preble to George M Harris of Kansas City took place at Liberty Co on April 7 Relatives in Scandia report Mr and Mrs Harris will visit this weekend Georgene a high school graduate Delta Zeta alumna and ex Pathe Film Exchange staffer is praised for charm and independence Harris owns ties to Stone Supply Co Kansas City The couple will reside in a snug apartment at 8751 Washington support from Journal family adds warm reflections on both families
Dr. E Porter Ahrens announces his entry for county commissioner from the district. On the Democratic ballot he will appear, but he seeks Republican support as well and states he will campaign for votes. Ahrens is a dentist, farmer, and stock raiser with study in municipal and county economics.
The Bank of Scandia displays a corn stalk reaching eleven feet three inches from root to tassel and six feet to the ear. The telephone manager jokes stalks might become poles if growth continues. Esther Larson, formerly employed in the Ninnock home, was operated on for appendicitis in Concordia last Friday. Is your subscription paid up.
Chas F Scott of Iola Kansas famed citizen and Republican governor candidate will address the Union Church at Scandia on Sunday evening July 29 The church committee plans emphasize the talk will not be a political meeting and invite all locals to attend this Sunday service for a travel talk and lecture by the speaker.
A letter from Mr and Mrs H S Cooper residents of a turban farm near Kansas City asks that their paper be parcelled to Liberty Missouri due to rural route changes. They praise open country and local conveniences, note Mr Cooper serves as school district clerk, keep a garden, chickens and sheep, and recently sold 25 lambs at 17 50 per hundred while remaining stockholders in Farmers Merchants Bank.
T. G. Hobbs of Concordia tours town with cards for his brother Chas. F. Hobbs Republican candidate for state insurance commissioner ALI. Hobbs Sr. is a former Concordia resident with long ties to the state and claims active involvement with Taneka’s insurance department across three administrations.
The regular quarterly conference at the Methodist church Wednesday evening, presided by district superintendent C. B. Kolmgren, heard the congregation urge keeping Rev. O. J. Lundberg as pastor for another year. Lundberg completes seven years of service in Scandia and has many friends beyond the church who support his continuation.
The Methodist Church announces a Friday evening Sunday School party with the Rac es entertaining the Chasers. The Chasers won a recent attendance contest. Services are set for next Sunday at 11 o clock for the Lord's Supper, with Epworth League activities and a Lincoln conference trip mentioned. An open air union service is planned for July 29 with no evening preaching.
Amana Lutheran Church will hold Sunday School at ten o'clock with no morning service on July 22. A Swedish service will be conducted by Rev. Grenere. Mildred Foreman, visiting from Lebanon, and her sister Dorothy recently traveled to Niagara Falls and major eastern sights. Dorothy returns to Topeka to work at the Topeka Capital. Rebecca Lodge No. 679 hosted visitors from Norway Lodge for an officer installation with ice cream and cake. Ruth Albro secured a job as an operator at Concordia telephone exchange beginning Friday. Mrs. E C Kallman returned to Concordia hospital for treatment Friday.
County officials return from a western trip and resume duties. County clerk and deputy busy copying personal property tax statements. Marriage licenses peak then ease with two weddings noted. North Central Kansas Free Fair grounds inspection underway as new cattle barns and grandstands rise. Road work on Meridian project opens sections to traffic. Local social visits include Bertha Fogelberg and Lucretia Keys. Prohibition raid nets a still and liquor. Demeter kept in jail awaiting July 20 prelim. Families from Copeland and Pueblo visit. births noted: Roy Holmes’s daughter.
Misses Ella and Jennie Nylund depart for Colorado Springs on Wednesday evening. Mrs. J. P. Porter leaves last week with Miss Grace Morris for Kansas City for hospital treatment where Miss Morris is nurse. About 50 people from here went to Beatrice Sunday.
The Nimocks and Cullers agency paid hail losses from a storm that damaged fields in the Scan- Dia area. Adjustor Watkins of Searcy Ark assessed losses from 6 to 100 percent with the Rasmussen 29 acre wheat field taking the worst hit.
The Kansas City Kansas parish will host Rev. James C. Boyce from St. Paul’s Clay Center for August while the rector is away. Boyce, a former Presbyterian minister, has worked with Indian missions in Western Oklahoma and at Clay Center and Wakefield. He is accompanied by his wife and three sons and any visit is expected to draw support from his many friends.
Gordon Stobart Scrivner born July 9 1806 in Norway Kansas died July 5 1928 in Dolo res Colorado at age 32. He lived mainly in Norway before moving to Ladysmith Wisconsin and married Minia Bowman November 24 1915 in Duluth Minnesota. He was killed while unloading logs in a lumber camp near Little Beaver Colorado. He leaves a wife one son deceased and several relatives including George Scrivner and Mrs Bates in America and siblings in Albuquerque New Mexico. Burial followed at Fairview cemetery after services in Norway conducted by Rev Torgensen.
Rev and Mrs E N Nelson plan a west to east journey to prepare for their return to East Africa where they serve with the Swedish Baptist church. They will visit A B Johnson family in Manhattan on route to Chicago and New York. Nelson plans to ship their car to Mombasa for use in reaching their inland station.
Halbert Thompson has been appointed to the office of Blaine County superintendent in Nebraska. He fills the vacancy caused by the resignation of the former superintendent. Thompson, a Scan dia high school graduate, has farmed cattle near Dunning and taught school in recent years.
The Royal Neighbors lodge met in regular session Wednesday evening with 27 in attendance. Visitors included Mrs. Lloyd Tedrow and Mrs. Walter Tedrow of Pueblo. Serving committee members were Mrs. Chas Oth berg Mrs. Adella Tingstrom and Miss Jennie Thompson.
The Kansas Power Company agreed to refund Scandia $761.94 for eight and a half years of overcharges on street lighting. City officials approved a new rate schedule effective after August 1, tracing back to a 1948 rate ambiguity that charged by candle power rather than watts. The settlement includes adjustments to past bills and a revised rate structure for residential and commercial lighting, with street lamps on Main Street to be updated.
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