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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1925
Page
4
Local item notes fall and winter hats priced one to five dollars at the Concordia Gift Shop upstairs over the Concordia Cash Store. Several social visits list residents and visitors in the area, with Thanksgiving and family gatherings mentioned among locals.
Items for sale include a wrought iron bridge lamp and a $4.95 gift shop complete. Local residents mention trips to Concordia for Thanksgiving and visits to family in Republic and Hardy. Frequent social notes reference Mrs Henry Nystrom, Miss Glada Etter studying in Concordia, and several families attending a Presbyterian bazaar.
Mr Ridge of Mankato visited J E Nondorf in town. A baby boy was born to Mr and Mrs Henry Johnson on Wednesday November 18. Lloyd Hammar returns from the Dakotas and Minnesota. Many Thanksgiving guests listed. Presbyterian ladies' bazaar nets about 160. Scandia Cement Works nears completion on five bridges south of Narka under Ed Nondorf.
Miss Mildred Penniston of Bell Air Kansas visited Bettis girls Friday to Sunday. The Journal office published the first issue of Rep City Wildcat, a Republic high school sponsored student edited publication. Mr and Mrs E C Norman of Smith Center visited Mrs Chas Hubbard family Sunday.
The Lutheran Church parlor served a Thanksgiving menu including rye and white bread, chicken with gravy, dressing, cranberries, baked beans, potato puffs, Astoria salad, pickles, celery, pumpkin pie, apple pie and coffee. Mrs. Guy Ward and Mrs. Geo Jean Debeur hosted a small gathering last Friday with guests listed including Nels Nelson, Henry Nystrom, Roy Nondorf, S J Summer, Ray Chilcott, H E Coleman, Geo Jeandebeur, and others.
L. J. Larsen, Erick Thompson and Eri. H. Bartlett left last week for Florida. They travel by auto, outfitting the vehicle as living quarters during their stay in the land of boom prices.
Mrs Dallas Mathis and children of Superior visited over Thanksgiving with her mother Mrs 4 Maxell. Miss Ella had been visiting and returned home with her. Helmer and Bennie Hoel of Randall visited sisters Mrs T Larson and Mrs John Larson and families while helping Sven Larson husk corn. An indoor picnic at Hilton Waite’s near Rydal included Chas Freed Ed Larson Concordia and many others with dinners and a good time noted.
A Sunday gathering at the new east of town home of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Freed. Relatives arrived with well filled baskets and shared a pleasant day. Present were Grandma Sederlin, Grandma Hallgren, Conrad Sederlin and family, Gust Hallgren and family, Chas Tedrow and family, Alfred Freed and family, Mrs. Mamie Freed and children. All departed wishing the Freeds joy in their new home.
Mrs J W Webster of Kansas City has been here this week visiting Mrs Oberia Ryan and other friends. The Websters formerly lived in Scandia, left in 1896 for Kansas City, and Mr Webster once clerked for Gulick Mercantile Co. Mrs Webster had been visiting in Denver and stopped over on her way home.
In Osceola Record report Fledy Coop husked 670 bushels in six days at Pete Lindholm farm averaging 111 daily. Charles Seibeborn of Scandia Kansas husked 696 bushels in six days averaging 116 daily, with a 132 bushel haul on Saturday. Pol county corn yields praised as best yet with strenuous crib work noted.
A fragment from Janet Catherine Symonds describes a quiet garden scene at Concordia with animals in a verandah border of roses. The piece notes George Nimocks visiting Belleville for probate business and recalls a rescue attempt when a squirrel risked harm to a woman, ending with reflections on garden happiness and peaceful living.
Betty pleads for a cat while her father dislikes them. He offers a dog if a well behaved one is found. Betty spots a stray kitten and asks her mother to let them take it home, proposing to use it as a dog.
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