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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1901
Page
7
Local items recap social visits, dances, and small events around households and farms. Names like Stromberg Ambrose Wrickles and Stofer appear with brief trips, school term ends, quilting, a baking drive, and a charity dinner. Also adds medicinal ads and a testimonial on Grove’s tonic and Rocky Mountain Tea.
Advertises a one day cold cure using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Promises refund if it fails to cure and features E. W. Grove's signature on each box.
Grandpa Randall remains ill as Albert Haskett family visited White Rock on Sunday. Decoration Day exercises promise extra effort. Pinkerton supplies wagons and implements. Quarterly meeting set for May 25 and 26. J L Shelton family and Gertrude Nutter spent Sunday in the country. A E Gummings and wife moved into the MecCrossen house. Methodists plan a new parsonage west of the M E church. Some disappointment over admission charges at graduation. A liquor seller roaming the neighborhood is accused of hog theft, punishment deemed fitting. Mrs J D Lynn and two children visit from Mankato to see C L Babcock and wife. Pawnee Republic Historical Society met at Pawnee park to plan celebration. Annual Commencement at Christian church showcased solid music and well-prepared orations. Courtland proud of top class grades with Edith Mae Parmley achieving highest marks.
An OCR fragment notes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic with a claim that the formula lists iron and quinine. It mentions No Cure No Pay and a price of 50 cents, presenting the advertisement as a straightforward remedy disclaimer.
Mr Gilmore finishes planting corn while Homer Bushby nears completion. Gregg shelled corn last Friday. Miss Mary Rérick visited Mrs Alick Lash last week. Sam Christie moved the house he bought from Dave Hedrick to his farm.
Arthur Crabtree works at Thos West's while Joseph McGowan’s favorite horse dies suddenly. Local residents travel from Liberty township and Topeka visitors arrive for Mrs Hay’s 59th birthday celebrated with gifts, food, games, and laughter. Common school graduation exercises at the Chapel attract a crowded audience with eight graduates.
A Kansas school program featured Burandt’s oration America One Hundred Years Ago And To Day and Miss Ella Olson on self-reliance. Students Kate McGlashan Kate Lowden and Elmer Gui presented essays on resilience history and the flag. Choir performances accompanied the ceremony ending with diplomas and a final song.
City Council minutes from May 3 1901 show attendance, adjournment sine die, and claims approved. Mayor C G Bulkley presided establishing clerk and street appointments. committees on Streets Public Buildings Grounds and Claims named.
The Ways and Means Poor Licences and Ordinances committees were listed with members J W Pinney W B Gulick A B Kimball L M Johnson and A S Mahan. On motion the council adjourned. J U W Sannenn City Clerk.
The item records crops ahead of cultivation, recent rain that settled dust, and mentions residents such as Charlie Larson, Bruce and Claud Cuthbertson, Frank Cuthbertson, Maggie Cooper, Oliver Johnson, Mrs J O Cooper, M B Sheeks, J T Johnson, and observations about the U V school course of study and rhetoric requirements.
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