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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1966
Page
2
The editor notes a six inch dahlia from Evart's garden in Scandia illustrating gardening as a rewarding yet demanding hobby. He recalls Swedish sayings and cites a line about bearing the tail with the dog when paying for small items to complete a larger purchase.
E. H. Lewis and Walter H. Berger presented detective titles to the city library. The gifts include three Gardner Case books plus The Case of the Phantom Fortune, The Case of the Troubled Trustee, and The Case of the Horrified Heirs. Rhonda Hall contributed Trixie Belden by Julie Campbell.
The Methodist Church led by Rev. Lee A. Dickey welcomes all with Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. and Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m. MYF service at 6:30 p.m. Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Norway Kansas lists John Jones as pastor with worship at 11:00 a.m. No Sunday school during August. September schedule begins with 10:00 a.m. services. Mrs. Harold Melhus is superintendent. ALCW meets the first Thursday after noon. Luther League meets on the first and third Sunday nights.
Amana Lutheran Church lists events with Pastor George Nielson. Friday 2:00 Circle Day. Saturday 11:00 Confirmation eight. Sunday 9:45 Church School and 11:00 Worship for the 16th Sunday after Trinity. Open house at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Cub Scouts Pack 232 met at the Legion Hall with James Garst as cub master presiding. New Den III members Wade Berry Mark Bennett Lonnie Swanson and Joe Melhus joined. Den II adds Mike Johnson. Lunch hosted by the Garst Moravek families and den mothers named for the year.
On opening day visitors crowded two connected ponds at Four Pine Fish Farm between Scandia and Norway. Ben Lervold called the method lazy but praised the steady feeding and good catches as Lars Norgard celebrated a birthday feast. LaVerne and LaVern Melhus explain regular feeding and odor differences in farm stocked fish. The Melhus brothers planted fingerlings in larger ponds for eventual commercial markets aided by irrigation wells.
The article notes appreciation for parents and children who brought flowers and apples. It covers Social Studies on apple harvesting and twisted trees, Science on forces inertia and gravity, a visit from an English family en route to Connecticut, and references to kings and queens. It mentions number books demonstrating the commutative law of addition.
The list of students achieving a perfect score in spelling last Friday includes Mark Bennett Cathy Farrell Carla Garst Richard Hobson and Gary Housholder.
Paula Gile visited the State Fair at Hutchinson Sunday. Bryan Johnson and Carol Hall had 100 in spelling Friday. We have received our reading books last week but are awaiting writing geography work books and a few new spellers.
Teachers report progress as students prepare for fall football games. Several fifth graders earned perfect scores on spelling tests, and the class is building an insect collection for a science unit with several specimens ready.
Mrs John Sankey hosted a Friday coffee honoring Mrs Don Sankey's birthday with many attendees from Superior Wichita Scandia Concordia and Colorado. Sunday guests included the Hobson and Shaffer families along with multiple Larson, Erickson, and Hammer households visiting Scandia Belleville and surrounding areas.
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