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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1929
Page
6
Scattered Scandia Kansas column notes include a Belleville reader on religion and a bashful humor piece about the Whiz Bang, plus carrot and potato reports from farmers. The letter from John Thorning asks support for Mrs Wilder’s Fire Fund and subscription renewal. A note on a court case dismissal and a fashion shift to longer skirts closes the update.
A speeding car overturned one mile north of Courtland on Highway No 86 killing Miss Freda Walker of Courtland. She died from a broken neck after being taken to St Joseph’s hospital in Concordia. Four others injured, three minor.
Work on the Al Mahan building at Grant and Main is nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy within two weeks. Finishing touches include petitions and fixtures. The Night Hawk Cafe will occupy the new building.
Henry Peterson takes ownership of the Royal Cafe from Frank Peterson and becomes proprietor. He will continue the high class restaurant business and also operate the family ice route. The Royal Cafe was run by the Peterson brothers for over two years before the partnership split.
Due to the pastor's absence there will be no services this Sunday at Amana Lutheran Church Gospel Matthew 16 1 4. The Dorcas group holds its monthly social this Thursday afternoon in the church parlors. Sunday School and services resume the following Sunday. An offering for the janitor will be lifted at that time.
This week’s church activities include an Every Member Canvass on Friday. Sunday morning church school meets at 10.00, with a sermon on Foundations. Epworth League at 7 P M discusses college education benefits. Evening service at 7 30 features Paul a preacher. A confirmation class may form and those 12 or older should notify Pastor Bert W Selin.
The Presbyterian Church lists Sunday School at 10 A. M and worship at 11 A. M with theme The Law of Prayer. A 2:30 P. M Congregational meeting will feature Dr. Andrews of Concordia. Evening services at 6:45 and 7:30 with Abraham Lincoln's Text. Ladies circle collects cans for Mercy Hospital with quart donations due Wednesday Oct 23 led by Pattie M. Eakins.
Sunday School at ten followed by morning worship. Sermon by the pastor using Exodus 15:18 as the basis for the discourse.
Mrs Ellen Loring completed and sent a barrel of 79 quarts of home canned foods to Mercy Hospital Kansas City Missouri without assistance. Donations from multiple supporters funded the express charges and included varied fruits vegetables and a sack of sugar.
More than 400 bankers and their families attended the Republic County Bankers Association event in Belleville. Group Four of the Kansas Bankers Association met with sessions in the morning and afternoon and a banquet at the Hotel Elliot in the evening. The program featured M A Limbecker W B Harrison and H W Hoencke and focused on the branch and chain bank proposition.
Morrowville High hosts the Flying Swedes coached by Hahn next Friday after a win over Mankato. Gunter moves to back field boosting offense while the line defense restricts foes, and Morrowville, a light squad, is seen as a credible challenge.
The schedule shows Christian Endeavor at the Presbyterian Church in the evening. The pastor will fill the pulpit at Norway in the evening. V. Glen Megill serves as pastor.
Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Norway Kansas holds Sunday School with Bible Class at 10 o'clock. A Missionary club dinner bazaar and supper are planned for Wednesday October 28. The Luther League will present a Reformation program Sunday evening at 8. Pastor T Orlin Torgeson invites all to attend and learn about Martin Luther.
Chick Boyes and his company bring the comedy Applesauce by Barry Conners to the Princess Theatre in Scandia next Monday night. Reserved seats at Hageman and Wires Drug Store, 25 and 40 cents. Curtain at 8 15. The troupe performs biweekly with vaudeville acts and a musical prelude.
Clare C Baldwin county superintendent of public instruction spoke at the Scandia PTA meeting. She urged a child centered curriculum replacing the traditional school model. The program featured eighth grade chorus, a playlet by eighth grade girls, a violin solo by Frank Jehlik, and a high school girls’ octette. Girl Reserve served lunch.
Miss Cherry Erickson daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Erickson and resident of Kansas City has been chosen to serve as goddess of the Masons for eleven nights at the Kansas City convention. She won the position from over 100 candidates. The item notes other social visits including Dr and Mrs E Porter Ahrens Mrs M C Chambers and families dinner guests of Roy Scott at Norway and Miss Elma Peterson of Chicago visiting Mrs Paul Erickson. Mrs Harold Hansen has been ill this week.
George Stromberg brings in a gigantic garden beet weighing 17 pounds with a 8 inch diameter and 41 inch leaf span. The Journal probes its authenticity while noting it may be the town’s largest yet.
Stay Ware a former editor and owner of The Journal spent Wednesday in Scandia as the guest of friends. Ware came to Scandia in the 1880s and left in 1894. He then moved to Clifton to operate a newspaper for nine years before entering the drug business in Sylvan Grove for the last 25 years.
Somers intercepted a pass and ran it in for a touchdown safety as the Flying Swedes beat Jewell County lads 4 to 0 on slippery field. It was Scandia’s second win this year and the third straight loss for Mankato in three years. The Swedes showed improvement and appear a capable winner this season despite earlier defeats to Concordia and Jewell City.
Hagensen and Wires order new plate glass fronts for Roya Cafe and The Scandia Produce. John Anderson will begin in about three weeks and push to early completion. Frames use copper casings with a new brick base, improving appearance of Main Street.
Harold Sjoholm of northwest of town accepts a book keeper post at a Burling ton lumber yard and leaves Courtland yard where he had worked. Mrs. Cecil Sargent and Emojean visit Riley parents for a week. Mrs. Guy Ward works at central office replacing Mrs. Oberia Ryan. Frank Mahan drove to Omaha on business.
Mrs. A B Wilder recalls the death and burial of The Scandia Journal founder Mr. Wilder. He was ill a year before dying in 1892 at a Bonner Springs sanitarium after July 27 travel. His family gathered. a monument was erected in 1893. The piece ties his death to the State Odd Fellows convention of 1892.
Bern L Ewing a 55 year old Scandia broom maker, was found dead by hanging sometime Friday night. Despondency due to ill health finances and domestic trouble was cited as the cause. A note from his mother and other effects were found, with funeral held Tuesday at United Brethren Church and burial in Riverview cemetery. He is survived by his mother two sons and two daughters.
The Variety Store will close after selling its complete stock during a one week sale that began last Saturday and ends this coming Saturday. Manager Olga Dutton has run the millinery business with the store for three months as it liquidates. Local residents Walter Brand and Wallace Jacobson visited after returning from Maddock North Dakota. Mrs R J Sanger from Concordia arrived to spend a week with her daughter Mrs R A Doctor and family.
Mrs. Al Somers staying in Republic to manage her brother’s house in the area visited her son Raymond in Scandia on Monday. Mrs. Roy Tedrow and Mrs. Chase Martin were in Belleville on Wednesday.
Donations continue to arrive for the Wilder Fire Fund with subscriptions remaining welcome and credited promptly. Contributors listed include Pete Kallman one dollar Mrs. F A Cullers two thousand seven Gust Bentson fifty John Thorning Chicago one thousand Ray Tingstrom two dollars Conrad Sederlin one dollar.
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