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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1931
Page
2
South Dakota's new school code, effective July 1, tightens teacher certification rules. Mrs. Mabel Trocen explains changes including single annual examinations, raised primary certificate requirements, and new expiration and eligibility provisions for grades one through three.
Contest numbers for vocal solos and vocal ensembles at the district music contest to be held April 30 and May 1 at Northern State Teachers College were announced. Solo selections include The Lotus Flower by Schumann sopranos, For Music by Frost contraltos, To Me Thou Art Flower by Rubinstein tenors, Be Near Me Still by Miller basses. Ensemble selections cover class A and B mixed choruses, girls and boys glee clubs with Mozart Jesu Word of God Jocarnate for class A mixed chorus, Come Hayde for class B, Purcell In These Delightful Groves for class A girls, Morley Now Is the Month of Maying for class B, Irish air Has Sorrow Thy Young Days Shaded for class A boys, and Glorious Apollo by Webbe for class B.
Philip plans a complete change to its street lighting with a new white way. Central West Public Service district manager F R Irons and team met local officials to arrange work with Bell Telephone Company. Twenty six aerial lights will be installed on nineteen new posts in the newly lighted district and the project is expected to finish by mid April.
Rev J A Reilly pastor of St Ann's Catholic Church in Frankfort for six years will leave the parish at month end and assume charge of the parish at Cavour, it was announced today.
Lake Preston area farmers cultivate the lake bottom north of the city for flax. Eight tractors plow a large field, turning soil into long black furrows. Limited cultivation last year yields to expanding acreage and greater output for nearby farms.
Dakota Wesleyan University students honored Arthur Fishbeck by electing him president of the student body. He defeated Glen Bachman of Wellington Springs, with other officers elected by the senior class selection and the student council.
Farmers near Tyndall seven miles south of Taber can swap 60 pounds of wheat for 24 pounds of flour at a local mill. The electric powered mill operates day and night, producing excellent flour from the surplus grain.
Sioux Falls on April 18 saw an unidentified motorist aim at a traffic signal and strike the device to topple the top portion and bend the base. A woman, unnamed, swerved to avoid another vehicle and hit a hydrant elsewhere, leaving her car with a twisted wheel and a damaged tire though the hydrant remained undamaged.
In Gettysburg on April Mr Mesick sold his implement and auto business to Mobridge firm Devideon Motor Company. A W Davidson and Donald Davidson assume active charge, taking over the Chevrolet contract and the stock. Mesick plans future work in Gettysburg focusing on personal interests after 35 years in hardware and implement commerce.
Residents and boarders at Glidden Hall Sioux Falls College held a banquet to celebrate the second anniversary of the hall's occupancy. The event notes the hall's construction as Theo Gainden Martin Memorial Building and its 1928 completion with occupancy beginning on April 17, 1929 by young women formerly in Meredith homes.
Bonilla high school will graduate six girls this spring led by Millie Miller Viola Russell Hazel Palmer Mary Binger Réna Walton and Helen Binger. No boys are in the 1931 class.
South Dakota voters face referendums on the rural credits act and at least three other laws from the 1931 legislature including the normal school, substitute tax and truck tax acts. Petitions require five percent of the last general election vote to trigger referenda, with trucking interests backing the truck tax challenge and auto registration fee increases.
Willow Lake April 1. At the Willow Lake Chamber of Commerce meeting the board elected X. G. Douging as secretary. Mr. Douglas works with his father and brother in the Ford agency at Willow Lake.
Watertown officials announce flood lights at the Chicago and Great Northern railroad crossing to improve safety for motorists and pedestrians. Jesse M. Olson, city light superintendent, says the Municipal Light company will install the lighting after the two railroads applied for better facilities. The new lights are now in use.
Loren Christensen of Brookings has been chosen director of music for Lake Preston schools for the coming year. The Beorkings graduate and Brookings student brings band directing and glee club experience from Brockines Volga and other posts, including Fort Snelling with younger cadets.
Watertown officials announce the gift of Bartron baseball park to Immaculate Conception Church. Dr J H Barton gifted the property which the church has long owned and will be renamed Bartron Play Field. Cavalier athletics will use the field for baseball and football with open access to local groups without charge.
In Sioux city a man named Sidney Hughes of Aberdeen was found by police near the county jail in a drunken stupor with head injuries and alcohol intoxication. Another man, Ivor Johnson, later found in a city ditch, was bloodied and bruised and could not explain his condition.
In Sioux Falls George Cangon was sentenced to ten days in county jail for animal cruelty after beating a horse with a shovel and pouring water in its ear to revive it. The judge noted the animal did not belong to him. The report also notes openings in Fort Frankfort and Wagner realignments.
Pierre April 18 Evidence from tests by Guy G Frary state chemist supports Director O H Johnson s claim that increasing mineral content in South Dakota lakes threatens fish life Seven lakes were tested Lake Andes in Charles Mix County and Lake Byron in Beadle County showed waters unfit for stock and likely harmful to fish The analyses indicated high calcium magnesium and alkaline sulphates with large amounts of sodium sulphate and overall high solids and hardness in Lake Andes and Lake Byron
Lake Kampeska records 286 and Lake Poinsett 135.0 parts per million mineral content while Lake Andes and Lake Byron show high levels. An artesian well feeding Lake Andes hatchery yielded 100.27 mineral content, with soft water defined as up to 8 or 9 grains per gallon. Ditches and water-management proposed to conserve fish life and recreation.
SPEARFISH April 18 No mayor will be elected this year in Valley City. Three aldermen Nels Brakke Charles R Cooper and L C Jimergon are up for reelection without opposition.
In Ashton vicinity, planting progresses with many residents sowing potatoes and garden crops. Pastures and alfalfa and sweet clover fields are looking fine as efforts advance.
A fragmented OCR dump lists auto and hardware firms and garages in several South Dakota towns including Ockeyedan Okaton Parkston Wessington Springs Wessington and nearby names. Towns include Ockeyedan Okaton Parkston Wessington Springs Wessington. Names and firms such as Samsland Imp Co Cassels Edwards Farmers Imp Co Webber Auto Co Gandy s Garage J Thieman relate to local commerce.
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