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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1900
Page
4
District notes list tax rates for Republic County Kansas for the year 1900 and mention various local people. Entries include Mrs Quincy Blosser returning home, Miss Mertie Murphy visiting, and plans for Axel Larson and family to travel to Oklahoma for the winter. Local real estate transfers and school matters are recorded alongside social notes and small anecdotes.
Garber sale spring costs bring 45 dollars and up. Albert Ratledge offered 100 dollars for a mare. J.B. Bowersox sold fine hornless cattle at good figures. August Rasmussen lost a valuable horse last week. Hurrah for Scandia electric light plant and flouring mill. J. T. Swofford sold 80 acres for 2500 and bought the T. S. Waggraham place for 4000. Mrs Z A Williams rents a farm to T Swofford and will try life again. The Democratic party loses in election. Republican officers may be left out next election without brotherly confidence shown. The Best Prescription for Malaria Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. No Cures No Pay. Price 50c.
Quincey Blosser and Harry Crossen spent two days in Nebraska last week. Mrs Swenson near town is very ill. Dr Scott reports population rise in District 48. Axel Tarson drove to Concordia Saturday. May Dickerhoof returned from Clifton. Moorehead visited Scandia for business. Hungry Hollow school opens with Owen Brewer as principal.
Advertising copy promises a one day cure for a cold using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It notes refunds if failure and includes KH. W. Grove's signature on each box.
Chas and Elmer Nelson haul corn to Jamestown. Henry Nelson hosts a turkey shoot on Saturday the 24th. Munson Bros finish threshing and report satisfaction with their undertakings. Beames from Sandia plans to open a general store in the Joe Rackley building. An attached coin from Arvid Lax sold for $100 to Carl Anderson. Mrs Carlson hosts visitors from Union Valley after a stop in Mitchell County, with ongoing personally conducted tourist excursions announced weekly.
District 48 reports visitors and family movements including Will Fritsinger and kin from the west for the winter, Mrs Gile tending grandchildren, Etta Burke visiting, and Jessie O Neal and Hattie Murphy on illness and travel. A daughter arrived Nov 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gile. another son born to Will and Etta Gile on Nov 16. Masters Guy Kelly at school due to Job’s Comforter. Chester Loofbourrow returned from Scandia. Bertha Murphy to Miltonvale for relatives.
The town reads of a Red Top box supper this evening and the first snows of the season. Miss Lottie West works for Mrs. C. A. Ball while Bert Fulecomer builds a new barn. Will Currie stays at Maxon’s during corn husking. Geo Bushby and wife attended a Friday box supper. Amos Pierce of Belleville visited on business. Chas Kallman clerks for M Hancock in Mr Seifert’s absence. Willie West returns to school. Brady Bowling and Thos Hay have been ailing. George Bushby promotes a US history lecture titled The Greater Republic. F M Brown rents Charley Ball farm for next year. M Voorhies visits farmers buying hogs for Mr Hancock. Minnie Bowling, now in Concordiatora, plans to move to Oklahoma with her family after three years on the Armstrong place. Thanksgiving wishes note thankfulness for blessings. Mrs Ed Bashby surprised on her birthday with oysters and tokens. Bertha Fogelberg’s belated birthday party includes a gold watch and an elegant supper. Guests include many local youths and families with Grace Cooper, Hulda Almquist, Ida Hugos, Anna Aspgren, Stella Hay, Gerda Aberg, Helga Herrman, Millie Herrman, Aaron Larson, Carl Hugos, Bert Cooper, and others.
A vintage ad promises a cold cure with the line stops the cough and works off the cold. The product, Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, offers no cure no pay and is priced at 25 cents.
An ad promotes Mull's Lightning Cough Cure with claims of stopping throat and lung coughs. It lists a 50 cent price and a child’s dose of 25 cents, referencing Athens and a general remedy format without medical certainty.
The JOURNAL announces it will again forward subscriptions for newspapers and magazines at a reduced rate when money is available. Subscriptions to all daily papers may be paid at the office. Most Swedish and Norwegian papers are on the list, saving letters and postage. Combinations with other papers will be announced through the season. Currently offers include the following.
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