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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1936
Page
1
The North Central Kansas Free Fair opened Monday in Belleville with active exhibits in livestock poultry farm products and 4 H. Motorcycles drew crowds as 35 drivers qualified Monday for races over a 3/4 mile track treated daily with calcium chloride to cut dust. The event features vaudeville and circus acts each afternoon and evening.
The Princess Theatre plans a September 12 reopening with high quality shows. Manager Raymond Cooper announces Captain January starring Shirley Temple will open the program and promises future attractions will match the prior standard.
Maria Kajsa Fogelberg 78 longtime Scandia area resident died last Sunday morning She came to America with husband Olaf in 1880 and settled on a farm southeast of Scandia Funeral services were held Monday at the home with Rev Lucertia Keys officiating burial in Lutheran Cemetery
A wooden model locomotive crafted by Richard Othberg, a former Scandia boy now in Fort Collins, Colorado, is exhibited at Haggman and Wires Drug Store. The model, built to cast the metal engine, is described as complete and the result of extensive work.
A total of 300 men are now at work on WPA payroll in Republic county on various projects in recent weeks. Workers include those in the sewing room and on county and township projects, with more farm families added daily.
Will G West Republican candidate for governor opens the 1936 state campaign at McPherson on Tuesday September 8. The rally begins at 8:00 PM with West’s address broadcast from 9 to 9:30 PM on WIBW Topeka WREN Lawrence KFH Wichita KGGF Coffeyville and KGNO Dodge City.
Next Sunday the church school meets at 10 A M. At 11 the morning worship will be led by local preacher Anton Nelson. There will be no evening service. Thursday Sept 10 the Ladies Aid Society will meet at the church hosted by Mrs R Rasmusser Mrs Lloyd Lindberg Mrs John Sothers Mrs C Cuthbertson and Mrs R Fredrickson led by B W Selin minister.
The church schedules Sunday school at 10 o'clock. With cooler weather ahead, leaders call for steadier attendance. The Dorcas Society will meet in the church parlors on Sept 11, with all members serving.
Ada Lutheran Church announces Sunday school and Bible classes at 10 o clock morning worship at 11 o clock. Evening services dismissed. Mrs Harold Vincent will entertain the Lutheran Wheel at her Concordia home on Wednesday afternoon September 10. Lutheran Wheel to lead program Sunday at 11 with Rev Danielson and family attending 65th Swedesberg anniversary at Clay Center. Welcome to our services.
The sermon and Bible class schedule for Qur Savior's Lutheran in Norway: Sunday school at 10 o'clock with Bible study, League devotionals at 8 PM Sunday, and a Thursday evening study of Mark chapter 14. Delegates will report at the League Convention. district meeting prayers requested for October 2 to 4. Pastor T. O. Torgeson invites all to attend.
John D. Larson, aged 63, died at his home last Wednesday evening August 26 after a years long illness. He was born near Scandia on May 8, 1873 and lived here most of his life except nine years in Eagle Butte South Dakota with his family.
Beatrice Nebraska resident J. H. Knoche a retired blacksmith was killed Friday afternoon when his car emerged from a blind street onto a highway and struck a Ford truck owned by Pease Grain and Seed Co driven by Emil Isaacson of Scandia Isaacson was uninjured and not blamed for the crash Funeral services for Knoche 75 were held Monday.
Two Belleville youths Glenn Griffin and Robert Collins join U S Engineers surveying the Republican River dam proposal near Scandia. Griffin assists the rock driller and Collins works with the surveying crew, both placed through the resettlement service.
Ed Olson oversaw redecorations at Behrens Cafe last week, giving the storefront a refreshed look and inviting patrons to visit the updated space.
A Kansas reader lauds state officials led by Mr. A. J. Murray for compassionate handling of home dispossessions for a new bridge. It recalls a Lane County pine tree case where Governor Landon ordered no destruction, allowing a widow to keep her tree and memories intact.
Fire destroyed the A B Montgomery farm home and its contents north of Jamestown on Thursday morning. Housekeeper Mrs Wood woke to smoke and found a closet in flames. Firemen arrived as the house was engulfed. Cause unknown. Building insured for 1000 dollars, contents 500, 40 dollars in currency and several legal documents lost.
Mrs Ora T Bleson returned last week from Colorado where she had been vacationing for three weeks. She was abroad on a holiday trip and arrived home to resume daily routines.
The Concordia Creamery Company paid its workforce with three thousand silver dollars last week to show how much of the payroll circulates in the local economy. The coins were shipped from a Kansas City bank to a Concordia bank and then handed to the creamery’s paymasters. The firm employs 160 to 180 people year round and is one of the city’s largest businesses.
Has Tenails removed Tlene Norgard had her tonsils and adenoids removed in Belleville last Thursday.
Scandia's school faculty is complete and classes start next Monday September 7. New English and journalism teacher Miss Margaret Swanson fills Christina Hays's vacated post while Cornelia Furry takes over vocal and instrumental music instruction. Clifford Cummings from St. Joseph Missouri joins as commercial coach after studies at KST College and work in Topeka and St. Joseph.
County Commissioner Frank Beck says the annual Pawnee Picnic will not be held this year due to financial conditions and lack of interest among those most directly involved.
County agent H. J. Adams announces that crickets have become a menace in many homes and may be controlled with grasshopper poison. Small quantities of the poison are available at the Farm Bureau office.
The Biological Survey, part of the Department of Agriculture, announced a 30 day duck hunting season. Restrictions from last year will largely continue. The season opens November 4 and closes November 30.
Merchants in Scandia planned to close at noon today as part of a longtime Fair week custom. Many stores and employees will attend the North Central Kansas Free Fair, with downtown activity reduced for the remainder of the day.
The Kansas State Highway Commission will condemn property in Scandia city limits for a new US 36 route north of town. Appraisers Tom George George Munger and Frank Staver will assess property owned by Reynolds Peterson Olson Anderson Webber Farley Marshall and others. They meet Monday September 14 for appraisals as Dane Hansen Construction moves into Scandia next week to begin piers for the bridge while river stage is low.
The board of commissioners postponed the Republic River bridge letting due to legal technicalities and a state budget requirement that the entire fund be on hand before work begins. Plans to split the project across years were halted and bids were not filed after the delay was announced, disappointing local citizens.
Mrs Frances Guthrie Harris of Lawrence is recovering at home after a critical illness following the birth of a son Allen on August 8 in a Lawrence hospital. Harris taught in Scandia schools for several years and has many friends in the community.
A fragment describes Will Rogers remarks about women not minding making their husbands feel at home. The text mentions a Dow’s house and Jim Dour with a lemonade article, suggesting a humorous vignette about hosting and guest dynamics.
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