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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1908
Page
7
Scandia residents report telegraphy practice by several local business men. Nora Garman visits Miss Peterson this week. Ellen Loring advertises millinery from home. A Vandeveer buys a new runabout Ford. Mrs H B Swanson of Belleville visits Scandia. Prof W C Rickel travels to Cuba for business. Heavy snow Tuesday morning at Phillipsburg and west. Rain fell Sunday night and drizzled Monday. SWP paints advertised at NYWALLS.
Mrs Mary Swafford travels to Concordia Friday to spend a week visiting relatives. Ellen Loring advertises new millinery goods and invites calls. A Democratic meeting was held in Belleville on Saturday May 2. Liveryman A B Frasier of Belleville drove a party to Scandia Saturday. Post Cards offered with a shower event. Up-To-Date Restaurant note. Farmers welcome the rain that fell Sunday night.
A. J. Bloom of the southeast Scandia area visited town Saturday for dental care. The Journal notes a reference to old papers and a bundle in the office.
Dr and Mrs J W Ekblad left Saturday morning for Duluth Minnesota where they go on business. They will be gone a week or ten days.
C A Newell, a Fairbury position holder, is in town for a few days with friends. George Stromberg came back Friday after eight months on the Pacific coast and in the western states.
Belleville native G. Ko Hansen, a Rock Island lineman, traveled to Scandia on Saturday to attend to his duties.
Nywall promotes Alabassine as a savitary wall coating and unveils a new color ecard for the product.
Kuitt Swenson and his wife near town welcomed a baby girl born Friday May 1. GC A Cline spent 60 cents on JOURNAL advertising leading to 80 dollars worth of seed corn. New millinery goods arrived at the house. Ellen Loring and Mr and Mrs L M Brigham with baby visited relatives in Gelleville over the weekend. Ray Wheeler took a quick trip to Council Bluffs to visit friends and returned Sunday night.
Martin and Bettis, skilled carpenters, are spotlighted in this issue with details of their craft, projects, and local work. The article highlights their collaboration on current neighborhood builds and the carpentry trade in the community.
Mrs Joseph Blosser died in Winchester Oregon last Tuesday. She formerly resided in Norway Kansas.
Scandia post office reported receipts for April this year totaling $14 more than April of last year. Officials remark a brisk trend with continued demand.
Monday the 4th saw many veterans in Scandia receive their pension payments marking Old Soldiers Pension Day with a steady turnout and cash disbursements to former service members.
Japane will restore antique furniture and woodwork with refinishing and polishing. NYwaAtt distributes the product for sale.
Chief Vrain Dispatcher Rain of Fairbury died at his home last Friday morning due to heart trouble.
A. B. Kimball and family move this week to Belleville as Mr. Kimball assumes leadership of the Belleville Freeman newspaper.
Headquarters proclaims the ice cream here is the very best. Details mention a restaurant context and a bold quality claim for patrons seeking premium frozen desserts.
Mrs A F Nordiman leaves Tuesday evening for Oakland California after a two week visit with relatives and friends in the area.
A Ellingson spent Monday in Scandia conducting business and made a pleasant call at the office. He departed Tuesday morning for Belleville.
A boy was born on Thursday April 30 to Will Johnson and his wife living east of Scandia. Both mother and baby are reported doing nicely.
Wees er Mrs Hue of Holdenville Oklahoma arrived Friday for an extended visit with relatives and friends in the area.
William Goold, long engaged in the meat market business in Edgar Nebraska, has returned from a visit to Iowa in the latter part of last week.
Rev James Hughes of the U. Bo church departed Monday for Mt Vernon Town to visit his family and expects to be away about a week.
E P Wilson of Salina and J T Randolph of Clyde, United States Revenue collectors, were in the city on Wednesday, meeting local officials and inspecting records.
A countryman in London encounters a rough sharper who boasts of his tricks. The visitor offers a half crown to prove his skill, but the countryman outwits him by returning the coin and leaving with the tale of sharpers fooled.
Horace Goldin recalls a Waterbury stage incident where a blackout prompted a clever misdirection. He claims a Yemen lemon trick vanished an elephant, drawing audience astonishment as the stage manager shuffled unseen. The next day a spectator hailed the stunt as the most marvelous ever seen.
Mrs Lillie Devereaux Blake told the New York City Mothers club that men’s dress is as injurious and uncomfortable as women’s and that men, as lords of creation, should lead in changing fashions. She criticized winter clothes and urged adapting attire to climate.
A young man narrates his family tragedy in a restaurant tale of divorce, custody, and wealth. He laments that since his father kept him while his sister went with their mother, now the mother’s new husband allegedly made a fortune in the Klondike, leaving him poor.
Rev Samuel Unsworth of Trinity Episcopal Church walked fourteen miles to Reno after a wreck at Calvada that blocked his rail trip home He arrived dusty and in time to deliver a strong sermon to his congregation, who learned of his journey after the service.
Scandia has seen a surge of new homes in the past year suggesting a local boom. The town’s growth appears evident as more houses go up and development continues.
Miss Della Booze departed Saturday at noon for her homestead in Washington County Colorado. Miss Bertha Wilson will serve as telephone central in her absence.
Rev. Zimmerman of the Presbyterian church left Tuesday morning for Wichita to attend the State Sunday School convention to be held there May 5th 6th and 7th.
A 25 acre pasture with windbreaks and ample shade trees along with watered guved water is offered 1/2 mile west of Scandia Kansas. Henry Lirnacr is listed as the contact.
The automobile fever has reached Scandia with several new cars in town and reports that farmers nearby are considering purchasing autos.
Editor Grafton Nutter of the Republic City News, enroute home from Cuba where he visited relatives, made a pleasant call on the newspaper office in Scandia Tuesday.
Martin Lervold, long in Wyoming where he has taken land, returns to his folks near town one and a half miles north. He plans to resume his Wyoming trip in about a week.
Jake Lowe, longtime Republic County resident and former proprietor of the Bruns wick Hotel in Scandia over twenty years ago, was back in Bellville last week on business and visiting friends.
C T Erickson in the east part of the city recently had a fine cement wall laid in front of his home, improving its appearance. Mr Peterson from Courtland laid the walk.
H. H. Cooper left Monday evening for Winfield Kansas to attend the Woodmen convention to be held May 6. He was the sole Republic county delegate chosen from over 700 members and feels a bit elated.
The Forty-third Annual Convention of the Kansas Sunday Association comes to Wichita this week with a packed program. Officials note time constraints prevent publishing the full agenda.
A brief hometown note reports Charley Goold traveling with a companion last week and visiting in Belvidere Nebraska to see his brother John, who had been very ill but is now somewhat better.
Mr and Mrs Ed W H Ahrens and daughter Mrs Lucile Ahrens Ward of Belleville plus a Minnesota sister drove from Belleville on Saturday to see Dr E Porter Ahrens. The doctor returned home with them to spend Sunday.
In February our daughter had the whooping cough. Mr. Lane of Hartland recommended Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and said it gave his customers the best satisfaction. We found it as he said and can recommend it to anyone with children troubled by whooping cough. For sale by D A Nywall.
An old saying from Old St Chestnut of Sedgwick Pantograph contrasts a grandfather clock’s steady ticking with modern fast moving clocks that urge haste. He notes the shift in time urgency and values the slow steady progress of those who persevere to achieve.
Rev. Zimmerman will present the report on the recent State Sunday School convention held in Wichita during the Sunday School hour at the Presbyterian church this coming Sunday.
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