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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1903
Page
5
Local items report movements at Jamestown Clyde Courtland and Rackley plus visits, church picnics and a Klondike gold claim. Hospitalized William O Brian ill with erysipelas. a new son born to Frank and Mrs Goodwin. Community dance and school opening mark a busy period with many travels and social events.
District 48 reports G W Cole ill with typhoid fever under Dr Coffey. Concordia visitors Julia Stanley visits Will and Chas Lewis. The 48 school starts Monday with Walter Fickel as teacher. Frances Loofbourrow ill and absent. Eva Ainsworth and children visited locally. Will Cowle returned from Severance due to his father’s illness. Ethel Thorp visited Clyde over Sunday. Rev Shaffer conducts meetings at Day school this week. Ralph Nichol plans to attend Concordia Business College again. New phones installed for E H Bartlett, Mrs Garbry and Harry Walters. Orrin Kelly’s surprise party after returning from Washington. Rev Marshall and Mrs Patterson guests of Mrs Gallery. G W Walter slowly improving and walking with crutches.
Local notes report school openings on Sept 14 and teachers at nearby districts. Families from Scandia and Concordia return from Oklahoma while Otto Johnson buys a mare for 90 dollars and Ollie John purchases harness. A rainstorm dampens haying and threshing but aids late corn and wheat seeding as schools resume.
South Courtland residents Mr and Mrs Hultman Mrs Hanson of Scandia and other families visited Aaron Anderson's Sunday. Clergymen Rev Scanson and Rev Wederberg arrived from the east Tuesday night and stayed until Thursday morning. Miss Letra Brown of Belleville began teaching Center School, Dist 96, last Monday. A public sale is planned at John D Peterson's next Saturday.
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