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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1939
Page
3
Local residents share weekend gatherings and visits with kin and friends across towns. Numerous dinners and Sunday calls occur among Bergstrom, Hugos, Perry, Christy, Norgard, and McMurray households, noting travel from Boise, Denver, Belleville, Courtland, and Mankato.
A roundup of visits across families including Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lervold, Mr. and Mrs. Lars Hammer, Rev and Mrs Mark Smith, and others plus political shifts in Topeka. Legislators discuss economy cuts, department reorganization, and driver license cost saving measures while the Senate and House review liquor law enforcement and flood control bills.
Local social notes list visits by the Nystroms Cox-Davis and families to various homes in Scottsville Miltonvale and Jamestown. Calls include A H Cox Coffee Shop Jamestown and the Hedstroms Axel Hedstrom home. A baby girl was born to the Burt Burns of Hutchinson on February 22.
The county option beer bill, once killed in committee, is reintroduced along with others curbing beer to under 3.2 per cent. A resolution would let voters decide on a constitutional amendment to legalize hard liquor sales in Kansas. A sit down strike ban with penalties has been introduced in the House. The Senate passed a tax moratorium extension on real estate to March 1, 1940, and the House may push the date to 1941 or 1942 if taxes are current.
The piece argues the Republican Party benefits from a council of diverse views and notes Herbert Hoover stressing policy continuity and party unity in major questions.
A muted figure stands as a foil to the more iconoclastic forces energized by the new era, with observers noting mixed reactions to the evolving challenges and shifts in style and authority.
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