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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1900
Page
6
A brisk note of progress fills the page with items about fresh market potatoes in season nationwide. Kansas appears bright and fair as new Formosa bank opens and local civic measures push sidewalk improvements ahead of the Fourth of July. Mrs. Weaver of Belleville visits Dr. and Mrs. K A Trainor while Odd Fellows report a big Tuesday game.
Gasoline sold for five gallons at Whitney’s for one dollar. Children’s Day exercises planned at the Presbyterian church next Sunday. Tax second-half payment deadline approaches. Homer Clark rumored as county superintendent candidate. Miss Georgia Sheldon, former local teacher, to graduate from State Normal Latin course. City Council allowed only the marshal’s salary and surveying fees. Do not feed tramps. work is available for each if wanted. Raqualization board reports lively sessions this week. A river picnic near Larson’s enjoyed by youths with many fish caught. Journal commends Scandia for handling the recent patent medicine fakir visit. Peter Miller fined ten dollars after quarrel with Ed Nondorf. Beaver township elder Olof Bergstrom dies. funeral Monday. Concordia wedding: Clinton Emmet Rose and Minnie Agnetta Lawrence on May 31, 1900. Mrs Rose known for visiting Williams family last summer.
Hats advertised from 5oc to 25¢ at Whitney's. Edwin Caldwell of New York, son of Judge Caldwell, arrived for a short visit. A birth: June 2 a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. N. E. Haines of Scandia. Cutworms damage corn in some areas. farmers replant parts of fields. Local moral notice urges confinement of girls on streets. calls for better conduct at church and on sidewalks.
A vivid portrait of a Kansas landscape near Scandia depicts a treeless prairie seen as a classic western beauty spot. The note invites readers to share the image with friends.
Charless Sallman was kicked by a horse and diagnosed with probable traumatic peritonitis. Surgeons Haning Trainor Stewart and Snider performed an operation, but Sallman died at six o clock Wednesday morning. He had lived near here and was brother to John and Frank Sallman.
Mrs C G Bulkley entertained about thirty Scandia ladies at her home on Wednesday afternoon honoring her daughters Mrs F C Bulkley of Salina and Mrs F C Lutz of Clyde. A light social hour followed with refreshments served on lawn tables and floral decorations. Attendees included Mesdames Conner Robb Seabolt Wheeler Trainor Blair Schofield Hopper Cullers Brotchie Weaver Gulick Kimball R L Whitney A L Whitney Charles McGlashan A R Morey Charles Goold H S Cooper Geo B Smith A D Wilson and Misses Conner Harley Smith Cooper and Happer. Miss Lou Conner won a booby prize.
The article notes global sugar consumption reaching about 8 million tons yearly, with over half from beets. It cites Germany as a top beet sugar producer and traces U S beet sugar output from 2,800 tons in 1889 to 43,000 tons in recent years, linking sugar intake to mental and physical traits while noting rapid U S growth after 1890.
A Scotch minister recounts funny wedding moments in Scotland. Couples join hands around the ring as if singing Auld Lang Syne. One groom answers I do with okay. A midlife bride jokes she has signed her maiden name long enough, ending with a witty exchange.
The London Telegraph notes rapid German shipbuilding gains. In five years Hamburg’s port and fleet expand, with Friederich der Grosse holding Atlantic speed records. Vulcan at Stettin ranks third in 1899 tonnage output at 65 862 tons.
A roundup of community items includes Miss Laura Lykins, a half blood Indian and Oklahoma City lawyer who studied at Carlisle in 1898. Mrs Amund Larson enjoys a birthday surprise party with a steel range gift. Mr Clark transfers to Cuba Kansas as Rock Island agent after leaving Jansen Nebraska. Charles Segerhammar returns from college in Lindsborg. Ellen Hallgren shows illness then improvement. Mrs F O Lutz returns to Clyde.
Mayor C. G. Bulkley announces a one hundred dollar reward for evidence leading to arrests and convictions under the prohibitory liquor law or gambling laws in Scandia Kansas. The proclamation, dated May 29, 1900, calls for action against illegal sales, gambling houses, perjury, and arson threats related to such traffic.
Advertises Krause's Headache Capsules as safer than powders wafers elixirs or salts and warns against trace amounts of injurious substances like altipurine morphine or chioral. Mentions price 25 cents and seller A J White.
May 1 1900 notices list Emma Anderson Tom Carbaugh Jack Cragall Edwin Wingate Mrs M A B Winter P M Kimpatt Omaha Nebraska. A letter to Emma Anderson complains of headaches and promotes Krause Headache Capsules sold by A J White. The Journal offers a subscription deal with Semi Weekly Capital through January 1st 1900 for 75 cents.
An Idaho woman obtained a divorce claiming her husband refused to take her to the Paris Exposition. He testified he feared water and baths, becoming seasick. The note ends with a plug for Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin at A. J. White's.
Perpetual Motion touts constant action and promises kept by the seller. Customers are assured furniture offered is latest style and solidly made with the seller’s name as a quality guarantee. On hand are Willow and Rattan Furniture Bamboo Couches Piazza Chairs Hammocks etc.
Christian and Weislogel, lessees, warn that no trespassing is allowed on the Holmstrom farm in Scandia township Republic County Kansas, specifically lots in section 17 and 18. Violators will be prosecuted.
May brought less cloudiness and warmer days with 4.06 inches of rainfall across ten days. Winds varied from north to southeast with the 12th marking the windiest day. Local graduates include Tina Creager Ella Dale and Led R Yale from Republic County at State University. Mrs Emma Gunter visited Barnes, Mrs A B Kimball returned from Manhattan and a Swedish M E coffee social gathered at the Johnsons.
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