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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1939
Page
4
Oldsmobile sales rise 54 percent since January 1 with 22 681 cars sold versus 14 677 last year. For the first 10 day period of March 3 923 units were moved a 68 percent rise from 2335 last year in the same span. D E Ralston, general sales manager, released the figures.
Community members spent weekends visiting relatives and friends across Concordia Belleville and Smith Center. Guests included the Freed sisters Topeka and Manhattan, the Loring and Bettis families, the Downing and Johnson households, and many others sharing dinners and Sunday visits. The district held school for a funeral, and numerous locals attended.
Scotch Plains residents and families visited neighbors including the Persinger Williams Ball Dooley and Gish households over the weekend. A hospital visit followed when S F Dooley returned from Blue Valley hospital in Hebron Nebraska after an appendectomy. A Belleville Center Schoolhouse meeting and a Readal Ry dal schoolhouse literary program drew turnout Friday night.
District 96 residents and families visited Center school on Friday afternoon. Mission Church Junior Choir met at the M A Larson home. Various neighbors, including the Hedin, Larson, Nelson, Peterson, Olson, Nondorf, Englund, Lindberg, Jensen families, shared visits and Sunday dinners. Ladies Aid gathers at Mission church in Courtland today.
Community notes list visits and gatherings at multiple homes including the Cardwell, Rasmussen, Berggren, Kathrineberg, Green Slade and Noble households. Persons named include Alma Strom Laura Rasmussen Homer Cardwell Cline Larsen and various families with dates of Monday to Sunday gatherings.
Rasmussen Abe Thompson Martin Jensen and families gathered Sunday at the Kathrineberg home to honor Margaret Jensen on her birthday. Mr Scarlett and family moved to the N D Cardwell farm last week. Ralph Rasmussen and family spent Sunday at the Carl Cuthbertson home.
The passage lists numerous visits and Sunday gatherings among residents including the Engwalls Nelsons Tornquists Johnsons and Carlsons. It notes school trips by Aileen Nelson and weekend stays with various local households across the community.
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