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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1932
Page
2
Pierre April 27 report details the Capitol heating plant with three furnaces and three boilers using exhaust steam. Governor Norbeck famously proved one furnace sufficed, shoveling coal himself to show feasibility. lignite fuel has fed the system for years despite aging equipment.
Athol High School plans a class day program at Congregational church on May 18 with Mary Fergen valedictorian and Charlotte Schwenn salutatorian. Wayne Wise delivers president’s address. Jesse Wise history. Monica Galvin motto. Evelyn Booth poet. Maurina Twiss will. Evelyn Shanty will. Leone Gates colors. Mildred Marienau farewell. Ten seniors graduate including Wayne and Jesse Wise, Evelyn Schantz, Monica Galvin, Leone Gates, Charlotte Schwenn, Maurina Twiss, Mildred Mariengu, and Evelyn Booth.
The Red Cross committee in Cavour received six carloads of farm board wheat. About 1,200 boxes were sent Saturday afternoon with the remainder dispatched later. The wheat was allocated to residents in Pearl Creek east half, Belle Prairie west half, Richtend township, Cavour south half, and the northwest quarter of Cavour township, and the southern water area of Benner township.
Eighteen members of the Sunday school class and guests gathered at the Earl Price home in Athol for a banquet. Rev Gebhart of Redfield and Miss Ruth Bovee of Redfield attended, with toasts by Gebhart and Misses Mott Kase Bovee and Price. The group sang Follow the Gleam and the table featured red and white May pole motifs.
Vermillion on April 27 Dr Carl Christel University spoke on German history during the School of the Air arguing that medieval drive in Europe prevented a single European state. He said the Papacy was irresistibly powerful with vast revenues and a universal church structure, claiming the Bible and church councils were infallible.
Vermillion April 27 battalion and company leaders of the R T and at the University of South Dakota chose Guidon national auxiliary via Scabbard and Blade to act as sponsors for the groups for the coming year. The honored girls include Barbara Breggren Lead first battalion Virginia Pier Belvidere second battalion Frances Geppert Vermillion Company A Cleo Johnson Sioux City Company B Isla Kilpatrick Sioux Paris Company C and Lucile Juirk Highmore Company D. The sponsors will appear at all formal ceremonies and drill and will wear a ribbon badge in the battalion or company colors, per Cadet Colonel James Sweet.
Vermillion area military men at the University of South Dakota pledged to Scabbard and Blade, the national honorary military organization, were initiated. The honorees include Craig Shouse Plankinton Bob Crowder Vermillion Ralph O Halloran Winner Al Koster Vermillion Dave Hawkinson Sioux Falls Bill Buck Madison and Walter Houck Gettysburg.
Dami nan O'Boyts son of Mr and Mrs D O Boyle has been offered a position in Minneapolis with Krummann Service Station Company. He left last week to begin duties and expects a transfer to a managerial post in a nearby district soon.
The regular meeting of the Cavour Young Peoples Conference scheduled for next Sunday evening has been postponed for one week due to a conflict with the Beadle County Sunday School Convention in Huron and Lutheran church music week activities starting Sunday afternoon.
Yale high school glee clubs perform The Garden of Flowers cantata by Denza and Teschemacher at the Yale community club on May 5 at 4 15 p m. The program features choral numbers solos and violin selections with performers including Marie Kuehl Lorraine O'Brien Bertha Walz Alma Masse and more. The public is invited to attend.
Conditions in the wool market remained largely unsettled with little bidding activity by buyers. When test bids were made they were often below asking prices and some near-asking bids were rejected. Sales were small and mainly to meet pressing needs, with overall demand sluggish and general inactivity among holders and manufacturers.
Yale's St William's church hosts its annual spring fete at St William's hall on April 3 following a dinner and home talent show. The young people's society presents The Absent Minded Bridegroom, a three act comedy, with a dance to follow as Mike Gibbs' orchestra of Huron provides music.
Freshman and sophomore home economics classes hosted a party in the high school home economics rooms. Each student brought a little girl guest for stories games and a lunch. The event illustrated practical child care lessons and was enjoyed by all attendees.
Members of Blunt Masons lodge were guests of Onida lodge for a regular meeting. The Master Mason degree work was exemplified as Coach Robert Davis was received as a new member. Supper ended the evening. Albert Sheffer is the lodge master.
Burdette residents rejoice after a weekend rainfall totaling about one and a quarter inches. Farmers report they have finished seeding and started plowing for corn as soil moisture improves prospects for crops.
The first Girl Scout rally in Onida was staged in the grade school gymnasium with over 30 participants. Card inal troop hosted under Mr C J Crandall, with Brownies led by Mrs Marie Fanton as guests. Treats followed songs and games. Other leaders and troops attended.
Brookings April report from A L Ford extension entomologist at State College notes no evidence of grasshopper hatching in South Dakota this spring except possibly eggs on steep south facing slopes or near building walls. Most adults are overwintered or partially grown and have not caused major crop damage so far. Weather this season will determine the peak hatch between late May and mid June, with warm spells accelerating and cool spells delaying. Predatory ground beetle larvae have reduced some eggs, but indications point to a potential outbreak depending on upcoming weather.
The Onida senior class schedule includes Baccalaureate on Sunday May 7 and commencement in the high school auditorium on May 2. Otto Linstad of Pierre will speak. Class play Tiger House to be scheduled. There are 18 seniors listed: Joan Beebe Tilden Sutton Clayton Crawford Ermal Duncan Eleanor Pierce Kenneth Johnson Helen Hull Abie Hofer Alma Glessner John Goosen Bernice Jaragoski Bernard McDeid Helen Braboc James Hilton Edith Mc Macken William Trythall Ethel Mac Phares James Brooking. Miss Darlene Bock is sponsor.
Mrs Archie Anderson suffered a nasty scare when her line broke and horses bolted while she dragged a field line. She was dragged and bruised but has no broken bones and is able to move about again. A reception for newly married Mr and Mrs George Crawford was held at the Debauche home near Cavour with many friends, gifts received, and the couple now on a farm north of Iroquois.
Mrs Claude Smith of Lake Andes visited her sister Miss Fanny B Mills who has been ill for two weeks. Mills Miss Mills, the local pastor, was absent from services Sunday as she remained ill, with Smith taking charge of the church services.
Mellette reports a beneficial rain breaking spring drought and boosting farmers optimism. Spring moisture this week follows heavy winter snowfall. crops show upstanding wheat stands and alfalfa resurging though more rain is needed to sustain moisture and feed supplies. Pastures improve as stock moves in, and fields damaged by drought are reseeded for the growing season.
Yankton college selects four delegates to the sixty second Congregational conference in Watertown from April 28 to May 1. Erc E Meyers and Dr M A Stewart named faculty and alternate. William Sadler student president and Elizabeth Daniels alternate. Dr Nash state moderator will preside. Sunday features a play The Terrible Week by Daniels and Nielsen.
Aberdeen April 21 G Vern Carlson Heela fined 269 dollars and jailed 30 days after a pint of alcohol was found on him during a call on Sheriff John Frommel. His companion G M Gardner remains in jail awaiting completion of an investigation into a raid at their Hecla residence where a large quantity of beer and mash was found. Frommel had been notified of the raid and arrested Carlson when he appeared in the office.
April 21 farmer Kell, living north of Conde, left his car in a field and found the windshield broken when a prairie chicken flew full force into it. The bird passed through the glass and lay dead in the back seat of the vehicle.
About 40 business men and locals spent Sunday planting trees along Lake Chapelle’s water line. Elms cottonwoods and cedars with some buffalo berries choke cherries and shrubs were hauled from the Missouri river for the project. Rain in the last days helps growth as the lake fills and the area becomes a game refuge. Lake Chapelle lies 16 miles southwest of Highmore. the dam was built in 1930 but dry seasons delayed filling.
An operetta directed by Miss Madelair Elwell and Aberdeen prize winners will be presented at Wolsey high school auditorium on Friday April 27 at 1 o clock. Cast includes Night Lady Beth Gordon cook Edward Hosking kitchen click Marjorie Christopherson tea kettle Iris Privett dist pan Thelma Rodman broom Rose Marie Mathews stew kettle Chester Boyle feather duster Louise Schulte frying pan Junice Whorten 2 bowl Alice Ann Seeley a pan Robert Meyer Reg Tagman Marvin McNutt choruses of story sleepy children gnomes and rag tags.
Bids opened for a new wing at the Bethesda home for the aged in Beresford reveal bids above the available funds. The board lacks about 7000 of the needed total and plans to sell trust property or obtain a loan to proceed with construction.
City sanitary officer Bert L. Patterson urges Sioux Falls to remove hundreds of abandoned automobiles that mar the city’s beauty. He calls for hauling them to garages or selling them as junk in the April 27 campaign update.
Mitchell reports an unusual hatch as a four legged chicken emerges at a local hatchery. In nearby Mobridge, state and municipal officers raid seven towns arresting fourteen and seizing beer moonshine totaling around 1000 quarts plus other alcohol. Among those arrested are Mrs Corghild Blacek and Mrs Kate Weishan in Mobridge and two noted bootleggers Reynolds Schmidt and Sam Cadotte. Gertrude Joyce suffers pneumonia in Burdet te.
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