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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1957
Page
4
Sunary School every Sunday at 10 00 and Divine Worship at 26 am with Communion on the first Sunday each month The Ladies Aid meets the first Thursday of each month at the church All members and friends are urged to attend the Sunday School services and Ladies Aid at the church
Amana Lutheran Church announces Sunday School and Bible classes at 3400 on Sunday morning led by student Pastor John Frykman with worship at 11:00. Choir practice is tonight at 7:30, junior choir Saturday at 6:30, and Amana Group meets tomorrow afternoon. Hostesses are Mrs. George Cardwell, Mrs. Ben Denoyer and Mrs. Ralph W. Larson.
The local church outlines Sunday services and afternoon MYF rally at James town, with potluck Family Night tonight and WSCS meeting on May 2. Sunshine Circle shifts to Friday May 4, choir rehearsal Thursday evening, and several social visits by area residents are noted.
Ollie Alice Long Norris born April 27 1872 near Slater Missouri died April 24 1957 at the James town home of daughter Mrs Martin Blosser aged 84 years 11 months 27 days. She married Arthur D Norris January 11 1894 and had six children four sons and two daughters. one daughter Vivian and son Grayon predeceased her. She was active in Malta Bend EUR church and Norway Rebekah lodge and helped organize local Ladies Aid. She leaves four children Ruby Blosser Jamestown Clarence Council Grove Lloyd Scandia Clyde Belleville 11 grandchildren 20 great grandchildren a sister Myrt Cros on Geary Oklahoma a brother Tom Long Chanute and many relatives and friends.
This note thanks relatives neighbors and friends for cards gifts and visits while in the veterans hospital. Grateful for kind deeds and support from those listed. Also mentions social visits by Rex Sandell and family and Bob Lemkau family with Leon Ulmer family in Hebron and Glenn Scrivner homes.
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The Institute of Life Insurance reports life policy benefit payments rising faster in the South and West than elsewhere. 1955 benefits were 6 percent higher than 1950 in those regions, versus 38 percent for the rest of the country. Death benefits from 1940 rose nearly 175 percent in the South and West, compared with 107 percent elsewhere.
Minneapolis reports a record 1956 turkey crop of over 6 million birds, equating to about three or four birds per U.S. family. Factors include new marketing varieties, reduced labor, lower mortality, year round marketing, improved packaging, favorable feed, and prior profits from the 1955 65 million bird crop.
Chicago reports a great new Golden Age of musical activity across the nation. Music integrates into schools industry community life and homes with new teaching methods and tech advances making learning easier and cheaper. The American Music Conference cites 27.65 million instrument players in the United States up from 14.3 million in 1936.
New York report notes safety improvements in U S manufacturing. From 1926 to the second quarter of 1956 lost time injuries per million man hours fell from 24.2 to 11.9, despite the workforce expanding from under 10 million to nearly 10 million employees.
Chicago box makers develop colorful cartons for seafood lines with product pictures to aid identification and appeal. The new cartons serve as an attractive menu item, helping consumers select their seafood choice at a glance.
A young man Charles M Norwood prompts a marriage proposal to his secretary Lillian Collins after a staged business letter becomes a real love letter. The scene unfolds on a sixth floor office as their playful flirtation turns into a joint future plan.
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