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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1977
Page
2
Community notes and reflections appear including subscription details for The Scandia Journal and public notices rates. The piece mixes local color with reminiscences about tomato harvests and Fourth of July memories, plus commentary on charity and prayer practices.
Community notes from Scandia detail hospitality to visitors and family updates. Larry and Gayla Berger thank Scandia residents. Raymond Cooper returns from New Jersey. doxanne and Sandra Johnson visit Lake Tahoe grandparents. various local families share activities, engagements, baby shower, Father’s Day gatherings, and travels including to Benton Arkansas and Houston Texas.
In Las Vegas Nevada Virgil Poage and Ona hosted a large reunion honoring Alex and Elizabeth Standley. Attendees included J Darrell Standley and many relatives from Riverside Buena Park Orange Courtland Belleville Salina and Santa Ana among others. The gathering featured basket dinner and several generations of Standleys and related families.
The article recounts the Grand Union flag as the first Stars and Stripes likeness, flown in December 1775, and details a sequence of social visits and gatherings in the Courland and Scandia communities including residents from Lincoln Kansas and Topeka. It includes a long list of visiting families, a Golden Wedding celebration, and notes on recent graduations and BBQ safety tips.
The Sherdahl Boosters H Club held a June 6 197 meeting at the American Legion Hall. They plan a potluck with Willowdale IH Club at Jelleville City Park on July 3 and will host a pool swim after with 50 cent swim fee.
Leonard Schruben notes Kansas City wheat prices slide against Minneapolis as a Congress bill to ban identifying hard red winter wheat by dark vitreous kernel content unsettles buyers. Prices fall 22 cents at Minneapolis and 36 cents at Kansas City, with foreign bids dwindling and some countries not accepting bids without color certification.
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