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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1900
Page
4
Local column chronicles visitors to Belleville and Ottawa, school and church news, a new storeroom planned near the city park, and various residents traveling or returning. Reports include Miss Ivy Thompson’s Ottawa trip, Stella Baxter's quiet wedding to PF L. Cox, and the Cox brothers.
A Burgettstown liveryman recalls severe stomach pains and says Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy worked like magic after one dose. He declares it the finest stomach remedy and vows to keep it at home, noting it is sold by Happer the Druggist.
An advertisement urges readers to decorate homes with palace style designs and colors, promising a striking contrast that rivals the Vale of Cashmere and roses as bright as ever seen.
A dense Norfolk style list notes residents and visitors in Norway township including Theressa Nelson, Ida Tiller handing mail, Miss May Dickerhoof visiting Concordia, Harvey Lux biking from Kackley, Miss Ruby Jacobsen visiting relatives, and many small happenings. Widespread mentions include Dan Dickerhoof at Concordia, barber shop sale to F. Davis, and Ed Jacobsen ice cream invites. Weather mentions wind damage to trees and a windmill.
Declaration of the Banc of Secunda at Scandia showing assets including cash and real estate, liabilities and capital. Signed by President G G Bulkley with notary certification dated June 1, 1000, listing directors and commission expiration.
Hilbert Lee cultivates for Mr. Bovey. Cowle leaves for Salina. Will Gilé loses a cow to blood poisoning. Charles Walter markets hay in Concordia. Mrs. Sarah Gile visits with children Mabel and Hazel Burk. Norway Beaver joint Sunday school convention planned for July 8. Farmers note alfalfa worms vanish with rain. Fred Brown ships a carload of fat cattle to Kansas City. Rain Saturday brings strong wind and hail. two miles north damage to vegetation. Beames buys bees in Scandia and returns home by moonlight. Children Day postponed due to whooping cough affecting about two thirds of children. Gile family visits Scandia for R H Gile’s 65th birthday. Geo Walter’s bee swarm incident ends safely after an accidental gun discharge near his wife.
B O Peterson expected home from Salina this week. Miss Lillie Nichol staying with her aunt. Mrs Hillery reports Whooping cough prevalent among children. Mrs Henry Bradley to be visited by sister Stella. Bertha and Virgie Williams visiting in Nebraska. Mrs Jas McGowan and daughters visiting relatives in Nebraska. Born to Mr and Mrs Bruce Elliott of Belleville on Monday June 4. Children's day exercises at the Chapel on Sunday evening June 24. Rev Fulcomer, Henry Fulcomer’s brother, preached at the Chapel. Peter Doctor Jr returned from Salina after months at college. Mrs Newcomer and daughter of Belleville visited D H Riddlesbarger’s early this week. Refreshing showers brighten farmers’ spirits as corn and crops look fine. Haying weather allowed alfalfa to be stacked well. Messrs Hall and Nelson shipped fat cattle to Kansas City. Hall sent three head, Nelson twenty-three head. This is Nelson’s second shipment this season. Rev Carroll from southern Oregon preached at the Dunkard church Sunday evening. He traveled home from Annual meeting with wife, stopping here briefly at Rev Eshelman’s invitation.
Miss Anna Johnson visits Formosa and J. T. Fitzgerald from Jamestown seen nearby. Echo Cornet Band to play in Jamestown on June 16. D. C. Bowersox of Belleville Twp dies after long illness. F. A. Babcock of Eric Pa praises Chamberlains Pain Balm for rheumatic hip pain.
H Baird of Cuba visited Courland on Thursday. The ice cream festival Saturday drew a large crowd and Mrs Babcock spent Sunday in Mankato with her daughter. W S Lower bought C W Elliott's cottage in the Santa Fe division. A brick bank will be built beside A J Sanders' store. Frank Chadwick was surprised on his birthday by friends. A bountiful dinner followed. Mrs W H Conaway hosted Lonnie’s ninth birthday party with four children.
Subscriptions note that H.8. Cooper attended a Beeville Masonic Lodge gathering Wednesday evening. An advertisement touts Chamberlain's Pain Balm as cost free if it fails, claims rapid relief from rheumatism sprains bruises and other pains with quick cures for cuts burns and swellings, with bottles priced at 26 and 50 fts by Hopper the druggist.
A fine rain on Saturday night and Sunday morning followed by cornstalks and alfalfa care. James Persinger grows corn for a third time while Ed Starks reports a new boy at his house. J P Porter hires bees for a sweet harvest and a Fourth of July celebration is sought. Prices and activity: 80 acres of wheat by J L Price should yield at least 25 cents per acre. H E Ayers about 50 acres similar. A pedling wagon owner from J P Porter’s arrives with a new tent, county Normal preparations loom large, and Jake Wieslogle buys two carloads of good hogs shipped from Sherdah. Willie Swofford suffers a broken leg from a horse mishap. A horse buyer checks local pastures for saleable stock. Sherdahl elevator progresses and will aid grain handling. John Cardwell, formerly of Sherdahl, visits and plans to occupy the old AL Mahan farm house near Lincoln.
Miss Freda Johnson traveled to Shickley Nebraska on Tuesday to visit the family of Reverend A G Milton and spend time there.
article argues China's railroad expansion will bring hundreds of millions within reach of U S cotton goods and other products. It envisions cheap American heaters and brickmaking machines transforming Chinese housing, plus needs for petroleum, medicines, water works, telegraphs, electric lights, and farm machinery to modernize logistics and farming.
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