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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1939
Page
10
Brig. Gen. M. McGough, unit commander at the Veterans CCC camp, announces recruitment for the regular army reserve at the State Fair Grounds. The drive targets war veterans and flying cadets, highlighting benefits for ex service personnel who enlist today.
The article notes reserves will get a $24 allowance, be issued clothing during training, and sign up at their chosen branch. An examining board at Brookings will rate applicants May 21 to 24, with reserves called only if war is declared. Flying cadets seek college graduates with two years’ education or more, starting next August.
Violet Ann Waldner of Huron won the weekly sweepstakes prize for best coloring in the Saturday comic section of the Evening Huronite. Other winners include Phyllis Bjerkeset, Lila Johnson, Bonnie Sutter, Calvin Schmidt, Viola Evans, Gladys Neuharth, Richard Hein, Beverly Boesel, Teresa Hammon, Sophie Maras and more from Huron and Wolsey. Entries must reach the newspaper office by 3 PM Wednesday.
Tulare High School seniors will be guests of the juniors at the annual junior senior banquet Saturday April 29 in the Masonic Temple Tulare hosts have chosen a Hawaiian theme for decorations and entertainment Chairmen Decorations Dorothy Walker prophecy Eugene Holm refreshments Ruth Blume program Gail Ames sponsor Oscar Goehring will assist the students
Superintendent M. A. Kinley, Coach Alvin Fellers and Russell Olmstad joined Dr. Ruben T. Shaw president of the National Education Association as speaker at a Madison Hickory Stick meeting Monday evening.
Edward J Noble, who built Life Savers from a one room shop to a multi million dollar corporation, was named second in command at the Commerce Department. Secretary Hopkins aims to use Noble to boost industry recovery. Roosevelt urged Congress to create under secretary of commerce and Noble would take that post when authorized. Noble resigned as chair of the Civil Aeronautics Authority to serve at one dollar a year as executive assistant to Hopkins.
Tulare high school senior class presents Betty, the Girl of My Heart in the school auditorium tonight and Friday. Cast includes Doris Price Kenneth Harms John Price Ardene Roeber Arlene Roeber William Brechvogel Hazel Schmidt and Treva Boyd. Superintendent Henry Tschetter directs.
The Rev and Mrs Amos Keller along with Henry Claassen Anne Claassen and Lily Fuerstenau traveled to Watertown Sunday to hear a concert by the St Olate College choir.
The Eilers Greenhouses and The Evening Huronite announced a 1929 Chinese elm street offer would expire Saturday with no postdeadline orders. William Eilers said schools judges and organizations needing trees for Arbor Day plantings should order by Friday for out of town shipments. Despite 5000 elms in the 1938 offer heavy orders have reduced supply. Orders may be placed in person at Elers Greenhouses 1902 Ohio Avenue Southwest.
Customers may order Chinese elms from 5 to 7 feet high at 15 cents each plus 3 percent state sales tax. Out of town orders require a minimum of four trees due to shipment costs. orders shipped collect by express. Arbor Day orders should be placed at least two days in advance with pickup at the Eilers Green House in Dusntown.
Redfield board of education reelected all city teachers after a successful term under Supt. R. W. Gibson in his sixth year. Gibson had been offered a three year contract. High school principal A. B. Campbell leads the high school staff with listed teachers including Jean Allison and others. Junior high principal N. Tabery heads the junior high staff with Rosamond Baird and Robert Grove among the teachers. Additional grade teachers named include Mabel Herington Beulah Cosgrove Katherine Dirksen Frances Collins and others.
Multiple brief notes from April 13 describe visits and returns: Mrs. Dan Chilstrom and Wallace Iverson of Brooten returned home after visiting Mrs. Chilstrom's sister in town and Mrs. Peter Anderson. Earl Crecelius and sons visited Hitchcock with family. Mrs. Orrin Starr and Bonnie of Deadwood visited Tulare to see Minnie Tasche and Don Ames before leaving. Maxine Mayer of Northern State Teachers College returned to Aberdeen after Easter with her parents.
We thank friends neighbors Rev and Mrs Smith for sympathy songs and the Kinyon Funeral Home for their words and floral offerings at the time of our bereavement of our husband and father Carrie Schulz Mr and Mrs Frank Schulz Neola Schulz Fern Nelsen.
Funeral services were held in the Catholic Church for W. H. Hughes 52 who died after a stroke and injuries from a fall in a Rochester Minnesota hospital. Burial followed in the Catholic cemetery. He operated a farm near Frankfort and had been visiting the area.
A Skonk County man and longtime public servant died after a stroke. He served on the Spink County board and the South Dakota Game and Fish Commission. He is survived by his wife, two sons Lee of California and Clark of Winona Minnesota, and two daughters Beth and Esther.
Bancroft report says Delbert Schlueter returned to Notre Dame Academy Mitchell for art studies on Monday after spending Easter holidays with his father Herman Schlueter in Mitchell.
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