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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1918
Page
3
A humorous historic tale recounts the ascent of Mant Blanc by explorers and the later suggestion it be renamed Wilson Peak. It notes a legal case involving a lawyer and witnesses who misstate facts in court, concluding with a sigh of relief at a witness’s simple truthful color answer.
Kansas bankers push for a state reserve bank to serve state banks, not as a commercial lender. A special committee will draft the law for a Kansas system akin to the federal reserve, aiding over 700 small banks and easing access to funds for local business.
The thirty first annual Kansas Firemen’s Association gathering in Lawrence elected George Obenland of Clay Center as president the youngest in the body's history T E Skinner Osborne became vice president J J Wammett St John elected second vice president and K D Foyle Wamego chosen secretary George Mohrbacker was reelected treasurer A fatal crash near Council Grove killed Mrs S O Coblentz and injured her daughter while Lieut Lloyd O Beaton Baldwin died in Lorraine after leaving the Associated Press in Kansas City and Baker University graduate Beaton had served as a reporter elsewhere.
Two French orphans adopted by Leon O. Becker of Newton arrived to live with the Beckers. Each child bears the marks of German repression in northern France, including the loss of both hands, underscoring the brutalities witnessed during the invasion.
Major Alvarado M Fuller receives telegraphic orders to become a colonel in the regular army after a career starting as a private in 1870 with Troop 3, 2d Cavalry. Lieut Martin Bowles, Neodesha native, killed in action in France on September 3. France sends 130 girls to the U.S. for education, with four allocated to Kansas schools including Baker University and Washburn. Lebo Light and Power Plant burns. Beloit High School building destroyed by fire with losses over 100000 and insurance 25000. Miss Lillian Silver of Salina dies after being pinned under a car that ran off a culvert.
Following the resignation of the assistant weather observer at Topeka S D Flora state meteorologist announced two young women Miss Helen Claypool and Miss Alta Puett had been employed to take charge of the work This is the first time women have been employed as weather observers in Kansas it is said.
The $40 000 community house funded by Rotary clubs of Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma was accepted by the local committee with a formal opening planned for early October. Ike Saunders a Louisburg Township trustee and Democratic district clerk candidate at Independence shot himself, dying at 45, after despondency over domestic issues.
In Abi lene a special election approved a 20 year extension in the franchise for the Riverside Light Power and Gas Company by a 469 to 68 vote. The company provides electric current to thirty two towns.
Theodore Roosevelt to be in Wichita on October 20 as guest of the International Wheat Show. E F McIntyre, exposition general manager, said a message from Colonel Roosevelt accepted an invitation to speak on the Liberty Loan.
A. F. Miller of Greeley learns his son William Miller is missing in action in France. This marks a second wartime loss for the family as his other son Charles P. Miller was killed in action on July 15.
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