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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1919
Page
5
A seventy foot flag pole arrives for erection in city hall park to honor soldiers. The base is to be finished early next week and Decoration Day exercises will proceed. Memorial Day services will be held next Sunday at 11 am in city hall with Otto B. Githens giving the address. Everyone is invited.
Charlie Reed misplaced a family heirloom gold pocket watch on Commercial Street last Saturday. Edwin Sahlen of Scandia found the watch and left it at Pierce Jewelry Store. Reed, grateful, calls the heirloom a keepsake with deep family ties and appreciates the finder’s honesty.
Theo Granstedt, after eleven years in Scandia's grocery trade, has sold his stock and plans to move to Oakland to join his daughter Ethel. He began his mercantile career as a clerk for Gulick and will wind up affairs locally.
The article recalls Tedgly’s 22 years behind the counter and plans to take a break after 1897 ventures with Whitney and Nelson. It covers Granstedt’s health driven move, Decoration Day plans, a cattle sale ad, cabbage and tomato mentions, Good Roads meeting at Belleville, and Norways high school graduation with Rev. Boop delivering the keynote on Conquering Thought.
School board hires for next year Superintendent Edgar Mualott Principal Ite Arrasmith plus several teachers for grades 7 and 8. Alma Hammer’s infant daughter dies after pneumonia. funeral held at Norman T. Chapel. Senior play Standing By featured at Norway Church. lightning injures Leslie Beekman and Homer Beekman in Republic County. Obituaries, local society notes, and Beekman family plans to move to California.
Homer Bushby of Rve Co endures a run of misfortune after March 24th when his second eldest son Tolliver dies of sober pneumonia, compounding a string of personal trials.
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