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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1902
Page
7
A busy community roundup notes the council convening Friday night. The rural mail carriers will receive 600 dollars. Wheat is reported in fine condition, and multiple residents return from travels, with events planned including dances and revival meetings at the Presbyterian church.
Friends gathered Friday night at Miss Mary Almquist’s country home for a birthday surprise. A bonbon dish was presented as a keepsake. Present were Misses Hilma Josie Mary Johnson Josie Nelson Edith Regina Maxell and Messrs. Aaron Larson John Freeburg Adolph Nelson and Oscar Johnson.
Miss Gertrude Swaney will start in April for Castle Rock Washington where she will live with her father. Oliver Johnson concluded the railroad route to Belleville is smoother than the wagon road and selected that path Saturday. Mrs Ella Rockhold moved into the mill property north of town and her son will farm the place this season.
J. H. Kinzie returned Monday from Osborne county where he assisted G. C. Daggett in settling into a new home. Levi Bygren departed Tuesday evening for Stockholm Kansas, where he has a place. The JOURNAL will keep him posted on Republic county events.
Herman Wayt returns to Kensington Tuesday evening after running the skimming station there for months. The facility is now closed.
Quarterly meeting of the Old Soldiers' Home Mutual Aid Society of Scandia set for Monday evening March 10 at 7 30 p m in City Hall. All veterans their families and the public are invited to attend.
Capt E L Glasgow of Salina has been offered a lieutenancy in the regular army by the President. Born Thursday March 6 to Mr and Mrs Albert Moe, afson.
A collection of fragmented statements notes vast timber loss from last year forest fires exceeding fifty million dollars. Boston reportedly carries a municipal debt of fifty million. A London church retains endowment once used to buy faggots for burning heretics. Increasing number of boy brides in London and about sixteen under twenty one brides per hundred marry.
A fragment contrasts life stages with objects: cradle for one year, hobby horse for four, hammock at sixteen, and tombstone at seventy, conveying a meditation on time and mortality.
The Republican county central committee met in Belleville to call a county convention for March 22 at 11 a.m. to elect delegates to Congressional and State conventions. Primaries set for March 19 with 123 delegates apportioned among townships. The committee unanimously supported D. Y. Wilson for State Auditor and H. E. Clark replaced D. L. Patterson as committee member in Big Bend south precinct.
February ranked among the coldest on record with a mean 24 degrees, four below normal, balancing January to yield near normal yearly temperature. Precipitation at .19 inch, .63 below normal, yearly deficit .57 inch. Snow on seven days, below zero temps on four days, only two days above freezing in first half. Winds predominantly north, total movement 4438 miles. Seven clear days, eleven partly cloudy, ten cloudy.
Friends gathered at his home Thursday evening to celebrate a birthday with music games and refreshments of oranges and candy. Supper was served at midnight and many presents were received. Attendees included Mr and Mrs M O Lervold Mr and Mrs A Swanson and numerous Swanson and Ler vold relatives.
February mail volume for Route No 1 shows deliveries of 917 letters 155 postal cards 3310 newspapers 450 circulars 173 packages totaling 5005 with 10 money orders 620 letters 93 postal cards 4 newspapers and 5 packages totaling 732 grand total 5787 a gain of 1277 over February last year Route No 2 delivered 2 registered packages 516 letters 114 postal cards 2442 newspapers 176 circulars 90 packages total 3340 collected 8 money orders 387 letters 25 postal cards 11 newspapers 10 packages total 441 grand total 3781 a gain of 571 over last year
The Rock Island will again offer one way second class colonist rates to Utah Montana Idaho Oregon Washington and British Columbia during March and April 1902. Ticket prices range from 20.00 to 25.00. From Scandia SS B D Scuorreip Agent.
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