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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1930
Page
3
The younger Bristow allegedly carried most of a $20,000 gold haul into Mexico, planning to use the funds to finance ransom. The action centers on a suspected scheme involving the Bristows and the missing ransom money.
Ozark Ripley spoke in Elks Hall to a Huron audience on wild life conservation backed by the Izaak Walton league. The event featured film showings and a post address display at the Congregational church. Local officials from Madison and Sioux Falls attended and praised river cleanups and a new sewage disposal plant as essential for health and fishing. A third grade house project showcased by Dr. Hubert Ketelle highlighted city children’s work with 40 houses received by the county office. A closing parade April 19 will award prizes to house winners.
State data show Standard Oil raises local gasoline price by one cent per gallon effective today in Huron. Most large independent dealers followed, setting service station price at 613 cents and tank wagon at 22.3 cents. Cities Service did not raise at 10 a.m. due to yesterday's crude price surge and market firmness.
South Dakota Farm Bureau endorses better farm to market roads as essential tools for farmers. Secretary W Tompkins notes millions of U S farms lack reliable year round surfaced or improved roads and urges action to improve rural transportation nationwide.
April 12 Vermillion reports Erling Cornell of the University of South Dakota RB. OG. T. C. and Scabbard and Blade president, and Lloyd Moses of Colome cadet second lieutenant, will attend the Scabbard and Blade convention at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on April 24 25 26. Cornell is the South Dakota chapter representative and Moses the alternate.
Ashton public school faculty presented the three act comedy Her Step Husband on Tuesday night to raise money for library books. Cast included Mr and Mrs Rhoades Fuller Mrs Smith and Mr Codington with music by Boyer’s orchestra. Master Geo Boyer and the Dunn sisters performed between acts.
Weather notes include temperature highs and lows from a year ago and records, with forecasts for Huron vicinity and surrounding states. Local items mention Dr Sherman L Johnson attending a Mitchell optical convention, rental ads, a birth announcement, and a hospital update on Lillian Wheeler after surgery.
Mitchell reports a 45 degree start with a high around four and a low near 45, precip none and cloudy conditions. Huron shows 45/63/43 with trace precip and good roads as rain continues. Yankton records 45/64/44 with fog and good roads amid light precipitation. Watertown at 44/72/42 notes no precip, foggy, roads good. Brookings 52/72/41 with no precip and cloudy skies. Rapid City 53/71/40 with 0.03 inches precip, roads good and partly cloudy.
County commissioners designate R A Cave county agent to dispense poison oats for prairie dog extermination in Beadle County. Poison sourced from the Bureau of Biological Survey at Pierre. A revolving fund of 30 dollars will cover transactions. Details pending. agent to receive oats and distribute to farmers opting to fight prairie dogs. Cooperation required with the Biological Survey under law.
Farmers Elevator company stockholders in Clear Lake have awarded the contract to rebuild the grain elevator destroyed by fire. The new 36 000 bushel capacity plant will include the latest machinery for prompt grain handling and aims to be completed in ample time to assist the harvest. J Lockhart is president of the board of directors. The site at Reedy has been cleared and construction will begin at once.
The Sinclair bill to authorize a survey of the Mouse river in North Dakota at a cost of 15000 dollars was passed by the house and sent to the senate for consideration.
A Virginia Hills farm show marks the 100th anniversary of the McCormick reaper, the invention that transformed farming and bread production. The first model, built by Cyrus McCormick in Rockbridge County, started with a crude cradle and evolved into the modern machine, now preserved in the state museum at Richmond. The Shenandoah Valley, called the granary of the Confederacy, hosts national and personal observances highlighting the device’s impact on agriculture.
Vermillion April 12 an investigation into the efficiency and plans to improve the water softener and filtration plant at the University of South Dakota is the thesis of Ralph Olander Yankton a senior in the college of engineering. A retaining wall for the bluff over the filtration plant is the thesis of Ardis Van Tassel Holabird also a senior in the college of engineering. Olander seeks a new filtration bed overflow handling and a plan to switch backwash to filtered water. Van Tassel designs the wall and studies soil angle repose to prevent slides. Van Tassel is student president and both are members of Sigma Phi Delta engineering fraternity.
J B E Bristow San Angelo oil operator is reported free after bandits in western Mexico destroyed two railway bridges and seized his train. His son Gordon Obie Bristow arranged a $1500 ransom, leading to his father’s release near Mazatlan. Escort of Mexican troops accompanied the group out of danger.
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