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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1919
Page
1
State Attorney General R J Hopkins says I W W canvassers entering wheat regions to recruit workers can be prosecuted under vagrancy and conspiracy laws even without overt acts or violence. He cites open threats to harvest workers and says such conduct interferes with farming and may lead to legal action.
County Attorney Frank Balwin and Sheriff Connie Collins found a 150 quart capacity copper still and four quarts of home made corn whisky buried on Frank Hatke's farm two miles north of Hanover in Washington County. Hatke confessed to whisky production and was moved to Washington with the apparatus charged with manufacturing and possession of intoxicating liquors.
Despite wheat cutting, farmers stop to sign a petition for a hard surface road that would raise their taxes slightly. In a few hours the committee collecting signatures for a road from seven miles south of Salina to the McPherson County line obtained twenty signatures, the best effort in the county since the hard roads agitation began.
A Santa Fe freight train collided with a motor car at a deep cut crossing five miles west of McPherson. Harold Kinsinger was killed while Walter Mubray and Luke Mubray of Conway were in critical condition at the hospital. The crash happened on a notorious county crossing as harvest work drew workers to fields.
Paul Ward formerly of the 139th Infantry, after campaigns in the Vosges and Argonne and seven weeks in a German prisoner camp without serious health effects, lies in a Concordia hospital with a broken leg sustained while performing his first civilian job.
John Madden a 24 year old man drowns after cramps while swimming with friends in the Republican River near Clyde. His body is recovered about thirty minutes later. Two farmers James Gugins and Elya Owens arrested for wholesale hog theft across four counties and hogs in their possession. Fort Leavenworth extends plan for a new post office building and a Daniel H Boughton memorial to house the ¢, with costs projected.
Kansas Adjutant General Charles I. Martin announces authority to organize a new peace basis National Guard with one infantry regiment one artillery battalion one cavalry squadron one outpost signal company one field hospital company and one ambulance company. Government plans to grow to eight then sixteen divisions, with gradual unit increases. Kansas I W W suppressed harvest period. a letter from Chicago warns further activity after harvest. Also notes garden diseases from wet spring including mosaic on tomatoes, spread by insects, with advice to destroy affected plants and avoid spreading disease.
In Wellington an exhibition flight aircraft raked an automobile carrying four people. Three were seriously hurt, including Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Livingston and Leona Jones of Freeport. The Livingston couple are expected to recover while Leona Jones, age nine, has a fractured skull and is in critical condition.
In the Smoky Hill River near Junction City, volunteers dynamited large ice and snow drifts to recover the body of Rev. B. Williams, a 77 year old colored preacher missing for weeks. A hat believed to be his was found nearby.
The first of the new wheat marketed in Emporia was graded below last year’s standards. Four wagon loads of new grain were sold at an Emporia mill. One road test met No. 2 while the rest graded No. 3. Much of last year’s wheat graded No. 1.
Mrs. Robert Peet, 22, killed herself with a revolver on the porch after despair over ill health. Her husband, a returned soldier, and her stepmother were present at the scene. The death is attributed to self-inflicted wounds.
The Kansas Telephone Company and its exchanges at Lawrence and Cherryvale applied to the Public Utilities Commission for a rate increase of about 25 cents per class of service. The Garnett and Ottawa operations are included in the request.
A movement to establish a country club near Cottonwood Falls seeks shares as membership fees for the first year. Plans include a club house, a golf course, and outdoor sports fields.
Rebecca Shellinger Haines 89, a former Indiana resident who settled in Kansas in 1870, died in Manhattan. Had she lived two more months she would have turned 90.
Charles Dewitt brought half a load of new wheat to Jamestown where Gifford Bros paid a premium of 20 cents a bushel for the first new harvest in Cloud County. The grain tested fifty seven pounds with unusually good color and brought 2.10 dollars including the premium.
While swimming in the Kaw River seven miles west of Linwood W H B Smith age 29 from Des Moines Iowa drowned. The body was carried away by the swift current and was not recovered.
The article details up to date housing for dairy herds emphasizing concrete floors, gutter drains, overhead feed carriers, indoor water, and ventilation. A 86 by 60 foot standard plank barn for 20 cows with a gambrel roof and silo is outlined, highlighting labor savings and milk production gains.
A Washington woman named West traveled to her brother to visit a dying relative. She learned the man survived after writing home that he was out of danger. A neighbor and the husband noted the wife’s trip, and she replied with dry sympathy about the long journey for nothing.
Popular Mechanics Magazine notes a musician directing music for a pantomime in a New York theater who could not see the stage from his seat below the footlights. He solved the problem by using a periscope with an eye piece at his stand, enabling him to follow the action without difficulty.
A Rochester man credits Peruna with ending decades of stomach and bowel issues after faithful use. The advertisement urges readers with catarrh and related ailments to try Dr. Hartman’s World-Famous Peruna Tonic, available in liquid or tablet form, and to request the free Dr. Hartman health book from The Peruna Company.
A court exchange centers on pay with the applicant proposing about $10,000 yearly and the judge noting the employer can offer only a living wage. The dialogue frames a limit on compensation and applicant interest in starting at that level.
An ad promises painless corn and callus removal with Freezone. A tiny bottle costs little at drug stores and only a few drops are needed to stop pain and lift the corn or callus, even between the toes, without soreness.
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