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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1920
Page
6
Local residents attended social visits and trips to Belleville Formosa Rexford and Kansas City. A Mack Sennett comedy Roping Her Romeo plays at the Princess next Tuesday. A big sale planned for Nov 23 announced by auctioneer B F Carson. Navy enlistment of Rex Reece reported from Denver. Numerous gatherings and visits at Sanborn, Nywall, and Leonard homes across the week.
Milk cows for sale include one Jersey one Holstein and several grade Shorthorns with some already fresh or soon to freshen aged 3 and 4. Hog butcher offer. Juarson family visit reports from Chicago to Roches ter Minn. Eric Juarson accompanied by Carl Wennersten Joh Larson and Marcella Mathis to Concordia for throat operation during stay with mother Mrs J A Larson.
Star Grocery adds herring and white fish items. Belleville trip noted for Mrs Adolphelson and Miss Ella Maxell. Kreitzers ad offers 6 Crown Brand pork and beans for 85 cents. Dortas society plans annual bazaar and dinner for Thanksgiving. Election reminders urge voting for Mrs Howard for register of deeds. Teachers from Scandia attend state teachers association in Topeka. Charles McGregor buys Cuthbertson property. Ward's sales job ad in Republic county. Norway Scandia United Brethren church hosts pastor Rev R C Conn reception. Fire prevention statistic cites 75 to 97 percent of fires linked to carelessness.
Princess theatre announces J Stuart Blackton's photo drama The Moonshine Trail starring Sylvia Breamer and Robert Gordon. It opens next Tuesday as the first in a new series of dramatic high human heart interest subjects produced for distribution by Pathe.
Citizens discuss candidates for county and district offices including regis ter of deeds and senate seats. Social notes mention Dorcas society gathering at Adolph Nelson’s home and various visits among residents, with updates on Alice Johnson’s medical condition and travels of George Mahaffey visiting T. J. Mahaffey and Morley in Illinois.
Independent candidate T. J. Charles seeks the Senate seat for the 32nd District. A farmed raised Republic County man and former House member Mr Charles emphasizes fair play and a square deal while outlining his wartime service and community work from Sunday School to the county fair. He vows to represent rural and farming interests with a clean, just record.
A note from this office says an auto taillight and bracket are lost on Wagon Road north of Scandia. Please claim at the office.
An advertisement from 1920 offers hauling and plowing services by Albert Snyder with prompt, reasonably priced work and a contact phone 95. The note appears alongside a Kansas constitutional amendment text and official certification by L. J. Pettijohn.
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