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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1902
Page
2
The Fifth Congressional District Republican Committee in Manhattan ordered a Congressional Convention to nominate a candidate for Congress. The meeting fixed the Jay Center for 5 p.m. March 24, 1902 with delegate and alternate apportionment among counties announced.
The article notes the Blind Boone Concert Company will perform at the opera house in April. It mentions printing at the JOURNAL office, subscription options for daily papers, and a special offer combining The Topeka Daily Herald and the JOURNAL through January 1903 for $3.00. It also advertises 100 envelopes printed with the subscriber name and Rural Route address for 50 cents at the JOURNAL office.
House and three lots offered for sale by J J R Shotzman. Potential buyers may call for details and inquiries about the property and pricing.
About 300 hedge posts and 13 cards of hedge wood cut to stove length were prepared at the X. E. Riddlesbarger farm by J. T. Snivert.
Notice lists names including Mr. O A Hstelle Miss Lorettaansell and Mrs Josephine A B with March 1 1902 deadline for unclaimed mail. If not collected within 30 days mail to Dead Letter Office per postmaster in charge.
President Cardwell will sell at public sale the farm located 334 miles north and 1 mile west of Scandia on Thursday March 6. Livestock farming implements feed and household goods included. Auctioneer John O. Anderson. Sale starts at 11 A M. Lunch on the grounds.
The week’s credit roster names subscribers entitled to credit, highlighting new members with a star and quitters with a dagger. Names include C. Segerhammar John Boman and several others such as Peter Kollman Levi Bygren Emma Poage Mark Talbot Gust I Vanonon and more, with marks indicating new or former status.
A Saturday night blaze in Courtland damaged Dr. Snider's office around the chimney. Strong winds saved the north buildings but ruined the Boyd building to the south. Losses under 1,500 with insurance on the Snider and Tucker properties. A fire pump aided Courtland’s response.
About sixty neighbors and friends gathered at Mrs. A P Swanson's home on Monday March 3 to celebrate her sixtieth birthday by filling the house and grounds with merriment. She received a dozen silver knives and forks along with many smaller gifts. A grand feast was shared as everyone carried a full basket and she hopes to return the favor in the future.
No 2 mixed corn offered for sale at 700 a bushel by 21 W H Brarry of Norway Kansas.
The February 1902 district report from No. 87 shows enrollment 13 girls 12 boys total 23. Attendance averages are 95.4 percent with 34 for boys and 21 for both groups noting neither absent nor tardy. Teachers named Opal Nordman Phiebe Albia Isaacson Arthur Ellingson Frank Jensen Vila Bullen.
The Old Maids Club hosted a Wednesday evening event at Miss Carrie Wohl’s home. Members were initiated into the order’s secret work and installed as full-fledged members. A social hour followed with an Inneh and many attendees listed among Misses Ella Asbjornson Emma Conner Iva Nelson Ethyl Trainor Lotta Stover Anna Soderberg Emma Sandell Bertha Wilson Ora Otto Marie Larson Oberia Bailey Carrie Wohlford and Messrs J J Smith Albert Swanson John Erickson Dr Eagleson H J Hollenbeck J M Weisfogel S F Tucker J W Pinney J H Sandell A Sandell Rev H P Cooter Adolph Nelson W D Vance and W C Preble.
Dr H G Palmer, the only registered optical specialist west of Topeka, will be at Dr Ekblad's office over Farmers and Merchant Bank for one day only on Friday March 14 1902. Regular visits planned thereafter.
Walter Rothschild MP has- private zoological garden in London with eighty four tortoises of various ages and sizes. The animals weighing 400 to 450 pounds each are about 250 years old and were shipped from Albemarle Islands in the South Sea. They received a whole cabbage daily en route.
Hewitt of New York argues the world is built and rebuilt about three times per century. He notes sky scrapers today will not be supplanted soon but that broad advances in civilization drive ongoing growth.
A Detroit man holds a street car pass that lets him carry his Boston terrier on any street car. The pass is a photo of the dog with an order on the back from the superintendent directing conductors to admit the dog. The dog is well known to conductors and the owner rarely shows the order.
The Ohio iron industry starts in 1808 with the Hopewell furnace begun by Daniel Eaton and finished in 1804. It stood on the west side of Yellowcreek about one and a quarter miles from its junction with the Mahoning River in Poland township Mahoning County.
A London correspondent from Betra in Portuguese East Africa warns that the Umbali Railroad district is being stripped of animal life. He says prompt action is needed to prevent complete denudation of the wildlife that once thrived in the area.
France’s annual mushroom crop valued at $2,000,000. Sixty wholesale firms in Paris deal exclusively in mushrooms. In Seine department about 3,000 caves are used for cultivation. Around 300 people work in caves, rarely leaving.
A Montreal Herald and Weekly Star correspondent reports Angus MacAskill of Cape Breton Nova Scotia stood 7 feet 9 inches tall and was noted for great strength. He once shouldered an anchor weighing 22 cwt. He toured with Tom Thumb in a circus performing tricks and dances, with MacAskill sometimes concealing the dwarf in his coat pocket or under his beaver hat.
Chicago Record reports the Madrid congress failed to excite as Spain pursues a Zollverein style union with Latin American republics. Delegates praised shared history but could not sever relations with the United States, Germany, and Britain for Spain. Spain aims to boost trade despite limited exports and reliance on imports from the colonies.
Announce a nationwide recruitment for several persons of character and good reputation in each state including one in this county to represent and advertise a long standing finance house. Offer $18 weekly plus expenses, paid in cash every Wednesday from head offices. Housing and carriages furnished when needed. Enclose references and a self addressed stamped envelope to Manager 816 Caxton Building Chicago.
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