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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
6
A mother recalls her son who fell in battle near the blessed land. She laments his loss and memory as she recalls his words to her and the sprigs of myrtle and rosemary in her heart. The poem evokes sacrifice and reverence for fallen soldiers.
In a memory play set on Decoration Day 1860s era, Grandmother Adamson arrives at a cemetery to honor Jeremiah with flowers but refuses to decorate Comrade Adamson's grave. She argues Memorial Day honors soldiers, not civilians, and declares the day now a general Decoration Day for all graves. The scene contrasts family grief with public ritual as the somber procession approaches.
E O G Kelly of Kansas State Agricultural College is sent to Wellington to test Pennsylvania parasites against Hessian flies infesting wheat. Parasites lay eggs in the fly and larvae kill the host. they produce 200 to 500 insects daily and are viewed as nature’s remedy in warm weather.
The Kansas state board of agriculture has acquired a complete 17 volume Wallace American Trotting Register set and a Wallace Year Book. The books, detailing pedigrees of standard bred horses in the United States, were purchased and obtained with copies from horsemen. They are stored in the board’s library and used by horsemen statewide.
The house approved federal buildings and sites funding for ten Kansas towns totaling 487 500 dollars. Items include Manhattan post office 20 000 dollars and Emporia extension 30 000, Clay Center 65 000, Coffeyville 75 000, Kansas City extension 150 000, Ottawa site 7 500, Wellington 65 000, and Concordia site 7 500.
Chief Engineer Vernon Pierce of the good roads office will visit western Kansas to inspect potential construction through the sand hills. He will visit major towns from Hutchinson west and spend a month or more examining conditions and methods. Congressman Madison hopes to join for the last two weeks.
The town of Sterling takes interest as M. Westenhaver earns a patent for his ditch digging machine after a year of work. A contracting firm reportedly offered him $20,000 for the patent, indicating strong potential value.
Earl Cooke captured a full grown badger and exhibited it in Haviland. The animal gave a merry show before Cooke finally lassoed it with his hitch rein, proving the badger to be good after the stunt.
A new gas well was brought in on the William Quiett farm near Colony. It is the farthest north drilled to date in the Colony field.
President Roosevelt signs a proclamation adding 205 107 acres to the Garden City forest, forming the Kansas National forest. The expanded area reaches 302 387 acres in total and renames the original forest with its additions.
The first case under the felony liquor sales law to veterans targets four keepers in Klondyke near the National Military Home in Leavenworth County. The sheriff arrested them amid a state crackdown on liquor sales to members of state and national homes for disabled volunteer soldiers.
The Telegram reports Garden City holds a strong lead in beauty and charm. New editor Ralph Faxon energizes locals who call for more refined language and stylistic polish in city life.
Highlights from daily sessions on anti injunction legislation censure of Representative Lilley military and navy spending records motto gold standard restoration ship subsidy defeat of post office subsidy house approves sundry civil appropriation bill totaling about 120 million dollars.
A major railroad disaster near Antwerp at Contich station six miles southeast of the city left about 60 killed and 100 wounded, with toll rising as workers cleared debris on Thursday morning.
After an all day session the Oklahoma and Indian Territory G. A. R. departments merged by electing officers Captain H. Veatch from Pawnee as department commander William Higgins of Bartlesville as senior vice commander W H Harper of Muskogee as junior vice commander and E N Phillips of Oklahoma City as patriotic instructor Next year's encampment is slated for Muskogee.
The natural gas men's convention elected officers Thursday with J. C. McDowell of Kansas City as president W H McKenzie Kansas City Kan as vice president J F Owens Waggoner Ok as secretary W M Welch Independence Kan as chief engineer of the Kansas Natural Gas company and James Strickler Columbus O as director.
During a severe storm on Friday the spire of the historic Christ Church on Second Street above Market was struck by lightning and damaged by fire. The loss is estimated at $15,000. The church, erected under a provisional charter granted by King Charles II to William Penn in 1695.
Miss Sophia Kittleson of Evanston Illinois describes a long time catarrh cure with Peruna. She says her throat was sore and cough severe before using Peruna and now her health is much improved with the chronic condition gone. She recommends it to friends. Peruna Tablets are offered as a tablet form of the medicine. Manalin the Ideal Laxative is also advertised from Columbus Ohio.
In a terse exchange from a sensibly ghap style, First Girl asks what he did after being told not to see her anymore. Second Girl replies he turned the lights out.
Mrs. Louis McKey of Oakland writes that rheumatic paralysis struck her in the back and leg, leaving her bedridden. After using Sloan's Liniment twice she could stand, walk in three days, and felt entirely free from pain with rapid recovery.
Two cyclists boast a ruse where a puncture kit is hidden inside a box containing a lady's skirt and picture hat. The plan allows quickly mending a puncture while posing as a rescue, prompting a positive reaction from the other rider.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from an inflamed Eustachian tube and cannot be fixed by local applications. It offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh related deafness cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation with claims of cures and free circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co.
A fragmented dialogue shows Mr Eckton debating home decor with rugs versus pets. The text hints at contrasting preferences and a light dispute over interior choices, reflecting domestic life.
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