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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1903
Page
3
Officials announce Memorial Day programs postponed due to bad weather and poor roads. The event will be held Wednesday June 10 at 2 p.m. at the city hall to honor the heroic dead, with graves at the cemetery to be decorated afterward. attendees are asked to bring flowers.
The notice lists a price of 16 cents per bushel for grain offered by Gnickens-Frys with contact through phone 64, signed by Guy LooIfro"w"row.
Rural Carrier Caldwell reported May totals: 7 071 items including 1 423 letters 395 postal cards 4 323 newspapers 969 circulars 160 packages. Net money orders 530 list, 5 postal cards 3 newspapers. Carrier Gatehel delivered 467 letters 169 postal cards 10 newspapers 293 eirenhars 6S posas ages 177. Smokey Orders 884 letters 389 postal cards 4 newspapers 13 pustawes total 4 086. May gains vs last year and two years ago noted.
A brief item notes a promotional offer and pricing phrasing with unclear names. The readable text mentions a product or brand, a percent-off angle, and a location styled as Tyee pound two Prooders with a buyer named Guy Loornoveeow.
Mr Charles Sandell and Miss Ova Otte were married Wednesday with a wedding snapper at L M Johnson home. Both known in Scandia and nearby, Sandell runs a barber shop and poultry business. The Journal wishes them a long happy life.
For sale a full blood short horn ball coming three offered by THos Maharring.
Forecast notes generalJune heat and favorable crop conditions but warns of scattered rain and storms. Mentions a front over the Mississippi Valley bringing heavy rains and thunderstorms, with drier conditions east of the Ohio Valley and hot spells in the Western States.
Rainfall for May over the past eighteen years shows an unprecedented spell of weather, breaking previous records. The remark notes that such a pattern has not occurred at this time of year before.
Advertised Letters list names including ANAY JUNE LAL LIV Graft and Florence Erickson Karl Goss Langford W. It warns letters uncalled for within 30 days go to the Dead Letter Office. A separate notice expects considerable June corn planting and a potential 30 bushels per acre yield if the season delays persist.
Local notice offers entire stock of woods for sale for cash at a low price. Seller identified as Mrs L M Wheeler invites buyers to arrange purchase immediately.
Kansas City faces severe flooding with martial law declared and militia and police patrolling streets. Three hundred Metropolitan Street Railway workers sworn in as special policemen. Key bridges and pumping stations flooded, streetcars halted, and communications crippled as water rises and supplies dry up.
A German monograph argues that gutta percha trees, sources of an essential material for submarine cables and golf balls, can be cultivated in the Philippines. Exhaustion of Sumatra and Borneo forests drives interest in Philippine cultivation, seen as a potential new wealth source for American industry.
A Brooklyn cat climbed high into a tree and was saved when the branch broke. The cat landed on its feet and ran off unharmed, proof that a sixty foot fall may not hurt a Brooklyn feline.
A Berlin report describes a solidified alcohol product for pocket lamp and stove use. It is said to contain about 62 percent alcohol, 20 percent soap, and 18 percent water. A similar item can be made by dissolving scraped tallow soap in warm alcohol.
The notice lists weekly credits for subscribers with marks for new (star) and quitter (T) statuses. Names include Jd Christersen, Cooper, Mrs. N.ele Livatt, Levi Bygren, W. R. Cheadwin, Bh. O. Uarlow, Dickason Goodman Lum, Roy Higgins, Johnson, Oxcar RB. Anderson, Wan Day and others with various small amounts. The text also oddly references theatres and conditions for more ranges of pages.
Prospective settlers are urged to contact Clement L Wilson attorney in Colby Kansas for information on a homestead plan. After 44 months of residence the buyer can pay 200 dollars and receive a deed. Soldiers widows should note husband’s discharge unit and service details.
The article notes Chas. Nordman as a Belleville visitor on Monday. It mentions that all eastern mail arrives through Denver or Hashings and is dispatched by those routes.
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