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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
4
Quite a number attended the commencement exercises at Scandia Friday evening. Mrs. Rosa Porter visited the county seat Saturday. Arthur Larson came out from Scandia to join the event and return home.
Sunday visits by Miss Agnes Peterson and Minnie and Lillie Anderson are noted along with Monday gatherings at C A Peterson and a trip by Mr and Mrs David Anderson to Scandia. A funeral for Mrs Johnson drew many relatives, while Arthur Larson attended Courtland commencement. Two residents, Lewis Squire and Lewis Olund, own new cars. Rev A H Jacobson resigned from the Swedish Mission church and may become a state evangelist. Miss Jennie Gustafson hosted at Andrew Peterson's. Rev J H Hedstrom preaches Friday. Sophie Peterson attended the coffee social, which raised $20.
A Tuesday rainstorm greeted a well attended social at the Mission church. Miss Shackleford of Broken Bow Nebraska is visiting her uncle A C Thompson.
Mrs. E C Kallman and baby visited Poage s on Tuesday Annie Loofbourrow from Manhattan met Lavinia Garman on Wednesday Mrs Fred Leweke and children return from Gawker visiting at Bettis home The Swede Methodists plan a social at Paul Erickson s Friday afternoon and evening incubator hatched about 140 chickens This week visitors included Mrs Switzer Norvill Lillie Minnie Merry Myers Lovell Mr and Mrs Sloniker Burr Oak A J Riley lists Delaval Separator Co offer prices for rebuilt machines Humming Bird 300 Ibs cap 42 Daisy 400 Ibs 47 Baby No 1 500 Ibs 52 Baby No 2 700 Ibs 60 New 410 Ibs capacity 70
Cattle market steadies after a weak close with 7000 head on the yard and 5000 head yesterday. Demand remains dull with cooler stocks and scarce high grade beef. Top steers $6.95 yesterday $6.85 today. cows $2.50–5.60. heifers $3.275–6.25. bulls $3–5.25. stockers $3.25–5.00. hogs rebound with top $5.45 and most sales $5.20–5.40 as packs push for orders.
A fragmented poultry price notice from RILBY warns that prices for old cocks hens ducks and young birds are subject to change without notice and that cash is paid for poultry.
In Republic County Kansas probate court notices the estate of William R Goodwin deceased. Franklin Goodwin is named administrator with letters dated May 20 1908. Creditors must present claims within one year or be barred. three years after letters for the final bar.
O. W. Carlson of Jamestown visited on Wednesday and, as a longtime Scan dia resident, said the countryside around Jamestown looks well and the area appears prosperous.
The piece traces why 13 and 14 are considered unlucky in Christian, Norse, and French history. It links 13 to the Last Supper and Loki’s banquet, and 14 to a string of French royal events tied to May 14 including assassinations and monarchs' deaths spanning 1654 to 1715.
Egbert T. Butler, 90, of Norfolk Connecticut, recalls swallowing a needle as a child. Doctors traced a needle traveling inside his flesh for 75 years, moving alternately like a railway train and finally lodged in his foot. He reports no serious illness, though pains in limbs and stomach were later explained by the needle’s path.
Bob McGregor of Brooklyn was jailed at Bellevue for writing obsessive love letters to Mary Stroker a Broadway typist. After sending over one hundred increasingly fervent notes he returned each evening seeking replies prompting Mrs Stroker to seek police protection.
A compilation notes renowned figures who remained lifelong bachelors. Names include Isaac Newton Hobbes Adam Smith Bayle Leibnitz Hume Gibbon Macaulay Buckle Pitt Fox Leonardo da Vinci Raphael Michelangelo Reynolds Turner Handel Beethoven Rossini Mendelssohn Meyerbeer and others.
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