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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1930
Page
2
Local classified notes advertise for sale including two spotted pony colts six months old a 1929 Model A Ford Roadster and a 1929 Ford pickup plus a piano and a Model T Ford Touring car. Also reports weekend visits from Atchison Concordia and Holdredge Nebraska and travels to Concordia Kansas City and Estancia New Mexico with various residents named.
Skelgas IT am authorized to sell Skelgas stores and products in Scandia and surrounding territory. If you are interested let me talk to you and meet the money at home. We sell Skelgas on the installment plan. Fred Ward. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Cooper and daughter Patricia Lynne and Mrs. M. M. Sandborn and Miss Ruby Myer drove to Mankato last Friday afternoon. Myer remained at her home after being employed at the Goover home for four weeks.
Walter Boman thanks friends and neighbors for prompt aid when their barn burned last Friday evening and says the ready response will be remembered.
A large cast of Paramount stars headlines the Paramount on Parade event at the Princess theater on Friday and Saturday. More than thirty five big names including Richard Arlen Gary Cooper and Mae Wray perform in Technicolor interludes with music, comedy and dance in a festive party atmosphere.
The HI V Conference for Kansas north central section will meet in Concordia November 21 to 23. The sectional committee, led by Bruce W Tallman, set final plans after October 7 meeting with members from Concordia Glasco Belleville Jewell and other towns. Local and sectional committees will be formed and arrangements finalized.
Over sixty league members from four teams gathered at the Methodist church to honor the Presbyterian team as 1938 season winners. The Scandian Journal presented the trophy a statute of a baseball player with two years’ defense required for permanent possession. Speeches by Harry Moller Carl Larson Phil Cahill and Joyce Johnson accompanied music by A Rydwall and refreshments from sponsoring church committees. Mr and Mrs Fred Everts traveled to Hastings Neb Sunday on business and returned Monday.
Real estate transfers feature numerous parcels sold in 1930 across Republic County including Belleville Scandia and Concordia. Transfers list buyers, sellers, lots blocks and prices with occasional notes on partial interests and sums. Local items report residents visiting, traveling, and social events plus a church ladies aid sale and a Luther League gathering.
Topeka October 15 1930 105 counties reported September fires to the State Fire Marshal. 180 fires caused a loss of 352 050 dollars compared with 425 630 for Sept 1929 and below the nine month average. Largest losses were a 60000 dollar silica plant in Meade county and a 33000 dollar Hutchinson lumber yard.
Mrs. Anna Gunter traveled to Topeka on Thursday to visit her brother John Henry Miller who is ill at the S. B. A. Hospital. She returned home Friday evening.
Mrs Leon Foxley of Platte 8 D Ed and Liyle Gregg of Wisconsin and Everett Miner of Hoxie Kansas called on Miss Josie Fullen Saturday.
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