Belleville Social and Business Roundup Features Local Visits
J S Woolf and daughters from north of Cuba on business. numerous Belleville residents visit, teach, or travel between Scandia, Cuba, and nearby towns. Typhoid fears affect school start at Poplar Grove and several residents attend church, weddings, or auctions. Notables include Emma Adamson, Miss Lillie Johnson ill with typhoid threat, and W A McHenry welcoming a new baby.
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J. S. Woolf
Eliza
Metta
Cuba
Poplar Grove
Scandia
Lillie Johnson
The
Republic Co. Teachers’ Association
Belleville
Jewel
Cloud Counties
May Ide
Elm Grove Dist
Local visitors and travels noted in county events
Munden a business visitor at the county seat Saturday. Geo Nichols of Belleville returned from Wyoming and other parts of the west. Hugh McGowan and family of Scandia attended the White Rock Settlers reunion and visited Scrioners from Thursday until Sunday. An editor jokes about pressing pants due to work.
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Enoch Larson
West of
Norway
Zeck
Howard Barber
White Rock
Munden
Geo. Nichols
Belleville
Wyoming
West
Hugh McGowan
Scandia
Kansas Horse Stock Valued At Seven Million Dollars
The Marquette Tribune notes Kansas holds about seven million dollars in horses and suggests the pace of automobile growth may lag behind horse ownership for some time. Anna Carlson advocates that peace like charity should begin at home.
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Kansas
Marquette Tribune
Anna Carlson
Quotes and quips echo in a rural column vignette
A jumble of gags and sayings includes Abe Martin humor on touring ears and snoring myths, a cheeky pledge about printing favors, quizzical phrases about Sedgwick and St Chestnut, and a rustic musing on mowing a Svath from roasting ears.
Inside and outside knocks shape a town’s fate
A saying from the Gove Record notes sharp external shocks leave a town damaged, while a fragile inner effort from within can crack open the shell. The metaphor links external pressures to local resilience and change.
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Gove
Teacher accused as pupil buys grammar in quirky note
A Georgia school teacher asked a pupil to buy a grammar and received a note from the mother humorously arguing against heavy grammar study. The mother jokes about preferring Lulu to engage in German drawing and vocal music instead.
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Louisville Post
Georgia
Lulu
Scarce articles revised by vital statistics editor
A Jamestown Optimist item lists varied profiles and items revised by the editor including a conductor hiring an auditor a boy with a clean neck a delinquent subscriber who says he ordered it a quiet barber a popular girl a tramp seeking work a reformer refusing engagements a rich fan unhappy with taxes and more concise notes such as a mince pie without sand a girl who does not flirt a painless dentist a safe razor a graft free circus and a Sunday School picnic free of chiggers.
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Jamestown
Valley feud over tobacco juice sparks county gossip
A Cherryvale woman sues for divorce claiming her husband spits tobacco juice in her eyes. The Neodesha Sun notes a related complaint about a man who spits tobacco juice at his wife during drives, a habit seen as provoking irritation among locals.
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A. Ellingson
O. C. McIntosh
Lynn
Shalmer Devore
R. H. Galloway
Courtland
Emma Adamson
B. M. Bailey
Lillian
Clyce
Graham Co
Viola Ramsey
Bertha Baker
Narka
Canxer City
Lillie Olson
Ottawa County
Vesterberg
Emma K. Olson
Talmo
Owen Thorpe
Wm Moore
Emery
Walter Berry
W. F. Berry
Rydal
Jos. Stenger
Wayne
Dr. Radabaugh
North Dakota
Iowa
Anna Anderson
Mary Daggett
W. A. Sterba
Wellington
Wm. Slopansky
Wm . Leeding
Liberty
Wayne Swanson
Kansas City
W. A McHenry
Lillie
Esther Johnson
Lizzie Glenn
Seattle Wash
Henry Nichol
Mr. Barber
Whie Rock
Albyta
Canada
Meritt Sigsbee
Thomas Hay
John ‘Bainbridge
Near
Bank OF Scandia
G. W. Nimocks
J. H. Sandell
Hope Dispatch
Abe Martin
John A. Freeburg
Fred Anderson
Kans
Lebanon
Brethen
J.B. Henry
W. M. J. A. Merrill
See
Baldwin & Lash
Monuments
Belleville, Kans
E. Porter Ahrens
Newall’s
Fp.l. Warren D. D. Ss
Doctor Bros
S City Drag Line
W. E. Godfrey
River Bridge
Chas
Peterson
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