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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1918
Page
7
A garbled financial notice names Farmers and Merchants Bank and lists several individuals including Rose Walker and Miss Frenees O'Neal or Belte ville. The text references community members and unspecified roles amid confusing punctuation and misspellings.
Doctor Bobo fits glasses. Oatmeal flour sold at Star Grocery. J A Freepurg made a business trip to Lindsborg Saturday. D A Slaney of the 48 neighborhood visited at the George Haney home Sunday. Mr and Mrs F Lieweke and Mrs A M Bettis were in Concordia. Monday Mrs Cullers spent weekend in Manhattan with her husband who trains at Camp Funston. Mrs Eva Morley Murphy of Goodland visited her parents until Monday. Mr and Mrs J W Obear of Kansas City visited Mrs Obear's parents. Mr and Mrs C Simms and Ed Simms and families of Republic were guests of the W C Preble home. Oscar Johnson visited from Camp Funston. Apple butter 35¢ per can at Kreitzer.
Fréq Moe reports Miss Mary West has returned from Rye Colorado after a summer with her sister Mrs TI A Bush and family. Ed Bowman and mother moved to the west farm. Greenslade family gone to Frank Swanson property on Grant street.
White oilcloth at Kreitzers. Robison and Rugolph Moe visited Concordia on business. Rey Tucks went to Sajina for a Scottish Rite meeting. Kreitzers promotes pea berry coffee to bring customers back. Dorcas Society meets at Lutheran church parlors next Friday afternoon. Scandia Mercantile advertises a children’s shoe line. Kreitzer and family and J P Owsley with family visited Concordia. G M Jones and Nellie Jones visited Will Johnson’s. Outin flannel sale noted at 29e per yard per bolt. Crullck's advertises 40e per yard.
Edw. McCaul and Mr and Mrs G Anderson with children from North Dakota visit relatives Carl T Teayson and family. Clarence Griffeth called to Camp Funston for his son Ajay van surgery for appendicitis. Kreitzers advertises dried apricots at 20c per pound.
Mr. J Le Gaul of Burdick Kansas is visiting the Alfred Olson home and renewing old acquaintances. He was formerly engaged in the furniture business in Scandia, Kansas.
The Wills Brothers of Foromoso have taken over the hardware stock of Hohr as of the first of the week. The sale will continue through this week.
Mr and Mrs Tom Vandeveer have been visiting at the A Vandeveer home for several weeks and left Tuesday morning for a trip to the eastern part of the state before proceeding to Alabama for the winter. Election of officers of the S�dnia branch of the American Red Cross to be held at City Hall on a November meeting date. any subscriber of $1 or more is a member and should be present.
Belleville residents Mr and Mrs Oscar Shaw received a gablegram from France reporting their son William Shaw once in charge of recruiting in Concordia and other locations was severely wounded on duty in France on September 12. The Shaw family is well known and William had risen to captain after rapid prewar promotions.
Work has been resumed on the district drainage dike west of town with Chas. Hohman as foreman and the project is being pushed to completion. The men are paid five dollars per day and are earning their wages.
Local notes report visits among families in Freedom, Belleville, Republic County and nearby towns. Farm work, cattle trading, road improvements and a new baby are among the topics. several social visits and family news are listed with names and places. A weather aside notes grasshoppers and a request for rain.
A brief notice indicates customers may leave cabbage orders at The Scandia Mercantile. It notes the shop as the collection point and invites shipments or drop offs for produce requests.
Public health notice explains influenza spreads through contact and airborne droplets from sneezing and coughing. Citizens are urged to avoid crowds and crowded venues such as moving picture theaters and other assembly halls when feasible.
A brief notice directs buyers to Scandia Aer Cantile for apples and potatoes. The text emphasizes quality and envaranteed service.
County chairman J A Sandell accompanied Pvt by A Dorsey to Belleville where the speaker addressed the crowd at the court house. Scandia residents Lemuel J Poper and family visited the county seat to observe milling work and collect apples. Belleville brief includes visits from Yor in Belleville and Leonard Thohr along with Lewis Hendrix. County commissioners met for October term.
Archie Bates of Lig Bend town visited the mutinitv seat AMomlas and urged favors for the Geiober feria of coupl Mestriet. The sale offers 24 double desks in good condition at low prices. inquiries directed to A. B Jolngon or A. Smith.
Listing offers SO acres one mile from town with 0 acres pasture and balance cultivated. A new oak interior house, well improved, modern in every respect. Also 171 acres first bottom and 70 acres pasture with fair improvements. Asking $100 per acre, possession March 1. Water abundant. cash terms. See this farm.
Probate Court of Republic County Kansas will hear a final settlement of the estate of Carl Monson on Tuesday October 22 1918 at 2 PM at the Belleville courthouse. Creditors and interested parties may appear for allowance of administrator fees and attorney’s fees and release of sureties. Jo A Freebure administrator Belleville Kansas September 21 1918 first published in Scandia Journal September 26 1918.
The Grand Island Business College in Nebraska partners with the US Bureau to offer stenography and typewriting programs. The school advertises year round classes, free catalogs, and long experience in placing graduates in civil service and banking jobs. Eye services by Doctor Bobo are also offered with guaranteed satisfaction.
Frank J. Cheney sworn as senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. to pay one hundred dollars for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Notarized December 6, 1886 in Toledo Ohio. Hall's Medicine touted as systemic via blood. testimonials available. price 75 cents. pills for constipation also advertised.
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