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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1900
Page
4
A local sale offers standard prints and ginghams in multiple qualities. Prices range from 4c to 80c with bright line Ginghams and fancy prints on sale. Ladies shirt waists are discounted with several price points from 35c to 1.10.
A run of skirt prices listed with numerous wholesale style notes. Denim skirts priced from 1.00 to 1.50 with various quantity discounts and unit prices. Shoppers are guided to choose from several sale tags including 25c 60c 75c and 1.09 to 1.35 ranges.
Local store advertises remaining wash goods nearly sold out with discounts at cost. Dimities priced 12c and 15c, others at 10c 12c 15c 17c and 20c, with percentage note of 15c. Sale emphasizes low prices and limited stock.
Seasonal clearance offers ladies vests at deep discounts. Seven cent style set at five cents, sixteen cent pieces at seven cents, five cent items at ten cents, twenty six cent items at fifteen cents, twenty five cent pieces at twenty cents, and thirty cent items at twenty five cents.
A full line of skirts drawers corset covers and gowns offered at greatly reduced prices.
Retail notice highlights a sales offer featuring Hine goods with notable quality. Emphasizes attractive discounts on lace and embroidery items in the county market.
The Millinery Department offers remaining hats and bonnets at below cost. Now is the time for ladies to buy a new hat and mothers to dress babies in fresh bonnets.
Shoes at various prices from $1.00 to $3.50 for men and women. Shirts and overalls offered at low prices. Multiple items listed including dresses, works shirts, and overalls with discounts such as 60c shirts and 50c work shirts.
A local sale advertises straw hats at 25 and 50 cents. It urges readers that if a new hat is needed now is the time to buy.
A readers shopping rundown notes items including Lyon Coffee 2 pack isibs sugar 1 pkg Corn Starch 16c pkg Soda 6 cans Lye to tbs Oatmeal 13c bottle Pickles 4lbs Soda Crackers with rough pricing and quantities.
Announcement of rapid outflow of Harness stock as they are closed out for less than potential value today. Limited quantities remain and items are offered at aggressively reduced prices to clear stock.
Whitsney's Department Store at Lone Tree sees visitors and locals report daily activities. Community events include Sunday School organized by L. S. Maynard of Topeka, new officer slate, home visits, farming updates, political chatter in Belleville, and local curiosities from grain and horses to threshing and mail routes.
District 48 F B Ames plans plastering for a new home. Will Adams hired to repair 48 schoolhouse. John Siebenborn sells fat hogs in Concordia Monday. Mrs Charles Fritzinger leaves for Okla Monday. R H Gile and daughter Edna visit from Scandia Saturday. Miss Bertha Murphy accompanies cousin to Concordia Sunday. Mrs Murphy’s nephew from Jewell County visits. David Smith, ill last week, reported better. Miss Lora Cowle hosting a concert at Talmo Friday night Aug 10. Mrs Wm Kelly learns son Chas Bartlett in a San Francisco hospital. Will Young visits uncle Lewis Young and sister Mrs O Griffith at Munden. Neighbors attend temperance lecture at U P church Sunday. Grandpa Shines ill with incurable disease but holding his own. Monday showers followed by six weeks without rain until Tuesday.
Alfalfa looks nice after rains and plowing for wheat will begin. Porter plowed kafir corn. L Rasmussin harvested 20 bushels from 30 acres. Vandeveer reports 30 bushels per acre wheat. Ward built wire netting for Belgian hares. Hancock and wife left for Rexford. Local fishing thrives in low water. Nelson walls a cistern. Sherrard erects a business house in Republic on Gulick lot. Vandiveer family to Osborn Co for wheat work. Ruth Bowersox hosted a picnic for about thirty friends. M B Sheeks a candidate for rural mail carrier from Belleville. Amelia Rasmussen views forthright public opinion, mentions Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin sold by A J White.
A promotion urging readers to brighten walls with nature themed designs. The Palace Drug Store touts beauty of its design colors and compares them to a celebrated Vale of Cash, inviting shoppers to visit for striking wall decor.
Courtland clips report threshing is the day’s order as rain finally arrives. Geo Frees travels to Topeka for insurance on a hand injury from Esbon. Mrs Wilkins returns south after grandson’s death. A Mr Johnson near Fromoso dies by lightning while his team escapes unharmed. Mull’s Lightning Pain Killer advertised at 25c by A J White.
Druggist Charles Holzhater of Newark touts Chamberlain’s cough remedy as safe and reliable for coughs colds and hoarseness. Mull’s Lightning Specific is advertised for summer complaints and diarrhoea with no opiates or poisons and is offered by A J White and Happer the druggist.
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