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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1900
Page
7
Reported delegates and alternates elected for the Belleville convention with initial vote tallies. J C Gurnea and LL Campbell among selections. Dillon leads 72 to 44, Farmington awaiting results and considered doubtful.
Farmers report some have finished planting while early corn shows a healthy stand. F M Brown sold his driving horse to Will Currie. A cyclone southeast of Belleville caused damage. Mrs Pusdy memorial tombstone at Poplar Grove Cemetry. conventions week sparks political chatter. Mrs G E Fulcomer teaches music with Miss Myers. Laura West among students. Several locals visit from Oregon. lodging changes noted. Prof Coon’s entertainment at Dist 84 schoolhouse draws small crowd due to stormy night.
Local notes report rain Sunday and community updates from Lone Tree. Mentions include Marvin Kelly improving, Margie Hubbard visiting Geo Logan, Miss Ella Oliver visiting with sister Mrs Blanchard, music lessons by Mrs Churchill, and various neighbors' activities. An ad praises Chamberlains Pain Balm for rheumatic pain relief.
Miss Olga Hugos is ill. Sunday visits by Karl Kelly near 48. Jamestown show drew young folks. G Gee Thompson and Al Carmichael drove to Concordia. R Nelson closed a term in Dist 19 Cloud Co. Miss Shirley Shivvers visited Jamestown. Miss Mary Tate returns from Beatty home. Nell Bradley visiting Ada Stanton in Jamestown. Woodmen initiated Monday night. 17 Scandia and 4 Courtland members. A southeast township tornado caused roof loss at O Dodge store and damaged Roberts house. Dance at Dunlap home with cake coffee oysters. Attendees listed. A I Whitney sold 8,000 bushels of corn to J W Pinney.
Robert S Mantell debuted as a sergeant in Arrab-na-Pogue in England with derisive cheers. Syracuse Herald notes Aida Louise Johnson in Lord Byron with James Young as leading woman. Robert Taber to manage Adelphi, London, March 10. Laurence Irving involved. Gloverhouse figure in Irving’s play. Martin Harvey to produce Don Juan at Prince of Wales mid February. Frohman offers 50000 to critic for best farce. Bernhardt vs Rostand over L Algion leading role with Guitry favored. Norah O'Brien plays Anne of Austria in The Musketeers. Dave Warfield expands dialect through Riley poetry alignment.
Lt. Gov J H Fletcher of Santa Clara South Dakota writes praising headache capsules as splendid and reliable. He reports druggists in Aberdeen Hecla and Britton Marshall county will stock them and plans to promote the remedy among miners in Colorado in June. Sold by A J White.
A cyclone two miles south of district 48 Sunday at 7 PM unroofed a stone room and damaged the Dodge farmhouse and a new wagon and cultivator. The Roberts farm suffered total loss while Dodges faced complete ruin. No injuries reported as nine people sheltered in a cave nearby. A social May 3rd honored Miss Nora Bartlett with a gold watch amid music and games.
The London Spectator notes how drunkenness was viewed at century’s start in the Married Life of Maria Josepha Lady Stanley. A christening brought twins and neighborly rejoicing with guests hailed as drunk as ever, yet laborers spared excessive swinish intoxication. Lady Sheffield laments missing such revels and reflects on social balls pleasing few, making many drunk, and personal misery.
A society girl in a Pittsburg Dispatch note wore an engagement ring made from the first elephant tusk? Actually leg bone of the first game animal. The lover proposed a year ago before a hunting expedition and, after his return, placed the ring on her finger as a symbol of prowess and affection.
A Creek Indian from Indian Territory who served with the Rough Riders reenlisted after the Spanish American War and went to the Philippines. While with his regiment he encountered a Malay tribe whose dialect resembled Creek, enabling him to understand and translate for officers as interpreter with the native group.
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