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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1938
Page
1
The Scandia Swedes were defeated by the Republic Wildcats 20 to 0 on the Scandia field in the season opener. Republic back Conzelman scored two touchdowns and opened the game with a kickoff return. Both teams showed early struggles with tackling and passing as the Wildcats secured their first win.
John A. Swanson father of Mrs. J. E. Englund, died Friday afternoon at the Englund home after a stroke earlier in the week. Funeral services were held in Scandia Sunday at 3:00 p.m. from Hampton-Danielson Funeral Home. He was interred in Warren Pennsylvania. Mrs. Chris Nelson returned Monday after two weeks in Topeka. Myrtle Grubb visits Lawrence this week with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Schwan.
Old Doc Sawbones in New York State is a trusted community friend. Hiram Jones visits and asks the doctor to drop by next week to examine his wife who reportedly broke her jaw.
The Journal begins Elizabeth Jordan's new serial The Life of the Party with the first installment. Readers are invited to start the chapter in this issue as the long running narrative unfolds with social intrigue and debutante circles.
Faster Eat your Birthday Supper with us tonight at 6 30. all welcome. Confirmation Saturday at Bergstrom's. Junior Missionary Society meets Saturday afternoon. Sunday School at ten. Church at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Young people meet at seven. Trustees meet during Birthday Supper evening.
The Methodist Episcopal Church invites all members and friends to a 10 a.m. Sunday School, 10:30 a.m. Annual Rally Day with guest speaker Prof. H. D. Karns, principal of Concordia High School. Evening events include 7 p.m. Epworth League devotional and 7:30 p.m. vesper service with a brief pastor message. Choir rehearsal Thursday at 8 p.m. with Miss Jean Hartman directing.
Our Savior's Lutheran Norway and Scandia churches announce Sunday School at 10 with Bible study and invite families to attend. Rev T O Torgeson signs farewell thanks for kindnesses as he departs with Mrs Torgeson.
Ada Lutheran Church announces Sunday School and Bible classes at 10 and morning worship at 11 with an evening study at 7 30. Ladies Aid meets Thursday afternoon September 29 with Mrs Engwall hosting. Luther League Bible study and Swedish services planned for September 29 and Rally Sunday October 2. A nursery class for ages two to four will be organized led by Mrs Desmond Almauist. Church members welcome non affiliated children to join Sunday School next Sunday. Church Paper Week runs October 9 to 16 including Augustana The Companion and Kansas Conference Lutheran. Subscriptions arranged with the pastor. Mrs Oliver Johnson to entertain Lutheran Wheel October 6 at her Courtland home.
Kansas State AAA official E. H. Leker announces farmers with volunteer wheat exceeding their 1939 allotments must till out the excess by May 1 next spring or face a 50 cent per bushel penalty on excess yield. Excess seedings this fall incur the same penalty. pasture or cover crops may be used to meet the deadline.
State highway department employees were drafted into the war on marijuana last week. Highway Director Griffith instructed maintenance staff to cut down all marijuana growing along highways and report patches found near private property. Local citizens have also destroyed patches in the community.
Three Scandia residences including Mrs C F Erickson and Eve Sandborn properties on east Main are being painted to improve appearance and durability. Community dining guests included Mrs James Popplewell Kansas City and Stella Downing among others. Nearby visits featured Mr and Mrs Mahon and travel between Scandia and Salina.
The Federal Surplus Commodities corporation reports shipments to Kansas from August 1, 1938 to May 31, 1938 totaling thousands of dollars. Read lists include white potatoes dried beans rice eggs skimmed milk dried apples fresh apples dried apricots cabbage grapefruit onions oranges pears prunes potato flour and cotton seed oil shortening.
A single ounce of radium requires processing 14000 tons of ore with the product valued at about 700000 dollars per ounce after refinement. This fact highlights the extraordinary effort and value behind early radium production.
Courtland voters approve a $57,000 shop building at the bond election last Friday by 162 to 73. A 45 percent grant from PWA funds is approved. Plans will be issued for bids and letting is slated for October for the construction bids.
The Princess Theatre will add two more show nights Tuesday and Wednesday next week and continue throughout the winter. The Saint in New York, an RKO Radio picture starring Louis Haywood Kay Sutton Sig Rumann and Jonathan Hale, will play next week. Mother Carey’s Chickens opens this Saturday and Sunday with interesting short subjects nightly. Local residents hosted dinners and attended events including visits to Belleville and a Democratic rally in Ballaville, with several couples named in the notices.
Boyd Burge picked four watermelons weighing 225 pounds total on Saturday. He gave one melon to Senator Payne Ratner, the Republican candidate for governor, favored J. T. Davis and the Journal with one each, and kept one to take to his daughter in Salina.
Senator Ratner Republican nominee for governor spoke in Scandia outlining key platforms on social security taxes oil industry water conservation and industrial development. He pledged to destroy homestead lien after election and to oppose sales taxes on food while promising constructive legislation after taking office.
County crop insurance supervisors report 25 828 applications for wheat insurance on two million acres during the winter sign-up. National sign-up totals 181 082. Most policies cover 75 percent of average yields and premiums are calculated after data are checked in Manhattan and Kansas City. Insurance protects against grasshoppers, jackrabbits, blowing soil, drought, and other losses.
County Commissioners Clerk and Engineer went to Concordia to join the Association of North Central Kansas Highway Officials with officers from 16 counties. Topics included the Secondary Road System County Liability and changing the annual assessment date. A round table covered the state accountant system requiring a daily balance of unincumbered county funds, a plan unpopular with clerks and officers. Rev T O Torgeson delivered a farewell sermon at Norway Lutheran Church after ten years there and prior service in Buffalo Center Iowa. He departs to attend regional circuits and visits family before fall Bible Institute in Minneapolis. Mr and Mrs Charles Hohman and Warry Hohman attended a funeral in Deilourals for Jake Lacy of Clay Center.
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