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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1905
Page
5
Our mammoth stock is arranged for easy viewing and to prove we have the largest and most complete stock in Scandia. Call to get prices, as we quote only a few bargains available for cash or produce.
An old newspaper listing shows a sale at Whitney's Old Stand with items including 16 lbs granulated sugar 7 bars White Russian Soap 7 bars Silver Leaf Soap 4 pkgs Breakfast food tea size 4 pkgs Best Mince Meat 3 lb can Good Apricots 2.3 lb cans Muscat grapes 3 cans Good Corn Calico best made per yard IOC Ginghams per yard 12 1 2 per yard Hope Maslin per yard L L Sheeting Ladies mercerized underskirts extra value.
Items from Union clippings note Miller Emmert staying with sister in Hardy Nebraska Maude Bowen traveling with homeseeker excursionists to Rexford Kansas and Hale Gosset and Arthur Cooper heading to California by wagon route. Various local visits and casual incidents listed.
Community gatherings mark a busy period with multiple visits. Household events include August Freemans furnishing completion and Ester Chrysong visiting at Horace Osborne's home. O. A. Larson hosts a well attended dance with 125 invited and many walk ins, featuring a Concordia string band and refreshments. Judge Geo S Green, brother of ex governor Green, dies in Guthrie Oklahoma.
Mrs Kina Owen returns to lerfore at al umet in Oklahoma after a visit in Union. J H Rost promotes Dodd and Struthers rods last week. Mr and Mrs D A Haney and daughter Bessie visited at Republic Sunday. Buck Stradley and family visited Emery Johnson and wife. Farmers report corn planted and hope for rain. Commencement exercises drawn by many Union youths at Scandia Friday. Grant Bowersox back from Kirksville Missouri Sunday. I G Householder travels to Rice County for a brother in law Mr Fair reported dead. D A Bowen seen in Republic last week. Mike Cuthberson and Sam Stradley helped move Emery Johnsons barn. Charlie Larson’s chicken house overturned by wind. several chickens died. Hale Goscet visiting H G Cooper this week. Union youths attend church at Kil Grove. Hinil Rauschenbaugh visits Godfrey McDowell’s Sunday. Verl Bowersox buys new buggy at Belleville. Chas Johnson markets his farm products Monday. Mrs Dan Householder and Miss Lena Householder visit Miss Mary Moe Thursday.
D Davis wife and daughter travel to Riverton Nebraska for summer. Minnie and Charles Peterson attend Bar day afternoon at Lars Wallin's. Miss Stella Honehton stays with Herria mn Anderson. Mission church Sunday meetings were well attended.
D J Burton drove to James town on Monday. Mrs Fr McGregor and her sons visited relatives at Scandia and Simpson. Morton Lathorn of Delphos visited J BR Shivvers from Friday to Monday. Roy Scott drove to Concordia on Friday. A B Thompson was in Kackley. Dr Scott was in Concordia late week. Agnes and Hilder Nelson were down from Kackley a few days this week.
Courtland gains one new mail route, Belleville receives one, Rydal one, and Jamestown one. All routes start June 1. Scan dia has not been assigned any route yet.
Roy Poage Ben Clark and Arthur Kackley visited Concordia on Thursday. Local residents attended dances and visits, with Mr and Mrs Levi Olsen welcoming a ten pound boy. Dr Scott appeared on Saturday streets and recovered, while Clara Nelson from Lovewell visited Kackley over the weekend.
Notice is given that on May 8 1905 the petitioner filed with the Probate Judge of Republic County Kansas for a prohibition permit. The petition will be heard Monday June 19 at the Probate Judge's office in Belleville Kansas. Dated May 8 1905 P HAPPER.
A partial catalog of rural properties from 5 miles to market includes a 400 acre farm, 148 acres 14 miles from market, 80 acre plots with low prices, and 320 acres in Russell County near the county seat. Prices range from 3 to 90 dollars per acre with improvements noted on some tracts. Also offered are Western Land parcels, stock and alfalfa farm prospects, and Main Street lots in Scandia. Call the office for trading or selling opportunities at reasonable prices.
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