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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1931
Page
4
Fort Dearborn replica at the 1933 Chicago World Fair presents frontier life from 1803 to 1812. The exhibit contrasts early settlement with skyscrapers and includes muskets pistols and brass cannon. Guests and local residents are noted in a community roundup.
Prospective drivers in Republic County face licenses issued after July 1 with no exams until October 1. Applicants must disclose alcohol or drug use and past collisions. Chauffeurs receive a brass badge, and 1.2 to 1.8 million licenses are planned. After October 1 physical exams may be required and suspensions occur for listed offenses.
Continued from page one, Lois Hiatt recounts settlement life in Mont County Iowa where ancestors homesteaded two miles north of Sidney. The family built from forests to a two story house, expanded their land during a era of $1.25 per acre, lived forty years, and raised seventeen children. They joined the Baptist church in Sidney and aided the needy.
Martha Hiatt died December 20, 1908 and Joseph Hiatt died February 15, 1912. They rest side by side in Sidney Cemetery, a quiet note in local obituary records.
Sunday visits to Wilt Weislogel home near Concordia included Miss Caroline Freed and sister Mrs Buster Moe and family. Several others stopped by or visited on weekdays with families such as Gabriels, Sallman, Standley, and Swanson, including Frank Sallman Lawrence Darrel Standley visits and multiple Friday to Sunday social rounds.
No trespassing on the southeast quarter of section 32 known as the Wat Klein place as posted by Fred Moe. 82, Mrs. John Brandstrom and Mrs. C. A. Isaacson were in Belleville Tuesday. Mrs. Brandstrom and Mrs. Isaacson spent Wednesday in Concordia. Mrs. A. G. Allnutt spent the latter part of last week visiting relatives at Downs. Miss Montana Stevenson of the Republic spent a few days last week with Miss Josie Fullen.
City property and farms for sale listed by J. R. Stofer of Scandia Kansas. Miss Vada Forsberg of Concordia spent the week end with her parents. Mr and Mrs Albin Forsberg. Gail Henry Peterson Phonie for ice. Mr and Mrs Dale Ainsworth and family of Wichita visit relatives here. Miss Elsa Johnson spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs El Reno Sederlin. Cream heavy cream for sale at the Midest Lunch.
Local items report cherries for sale at two dollars per quart and eight ten cents per quart price points. Notices announce a sale at Jetty Back Shoppe and various rental and sale offerings. Individuals Carl Brownlee, G. Van Horn, Geneva York, and Cecil Moller are mentioned along with locations in Kansas Nebraska towns Scandia Stockham and Lincoln.
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