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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
2
Union township news from Scandia and neighboring towns highlights social visits and illnesses. Activities include Red Cross sales, baptisms, farm work, and schooling events with numerous families named such as Thomas, Sederlin, Dougherty, Bowen, Anderson, Odell, and Marshall. Several residents recover from la grippe and pneumonia while others welcome new births.
Counts of Belleville visitors include C. W. Marley from near Wayne and Elijah Goodwin from Scandia on separate days. Norway’s Quincy Blosser and Scandia attorney Lewis Hendrix also appear in Belleville for business and court. Local social notes mention box suppers with Sandell girls, extended visits with families in Belleville, and several trips to Concordia Topeka and other nearby towns.
Attorney Clyde Short of Concordia visited Belleville on Saturday morning. Alex Scott from Norway attended to business on Tuesday. John Douglas and family of Belleville township and Chas W Elliott and family of Scandia spent Sunday with the F S Goodwin family in Freedom township. Rev L W McKeever attended a trustees meeting in Salina. A successful Red Cross Box Supper at Center School District 9 near Rydal raised about 75 dollars. The first quarterly Belleville Mr E church conference will be held Wednesday evening May Templin from Mankato will preach that evening.
Local timetable lists westbound and eastbound trains with numbers and arrival times. Jersey service noted as not running on Sunday and specific flag stops at Manhattan and Samaag. schedule includes local freight times and exceptions.
The scene shows a portable shower bath in use as doctors and a nurse provide heated water for a half hour of cleansing. The piece praises American charity and the Red Cross for transforming misery into comfort for children amid wartime hardship.
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