Band concert Opens Woonsocket Celebration on Aug 12
Woonsocket officials plan a full day on August 12 with a morning band concert at 11 by the Woonsocket Band under Prof Arnold Larson, followed by the largest balloon ascension by Prof Luther Dennis. Afternoon events include a game between Huron Brewers and Woonsocket at 1:30, a circus review on Main Street, and a Gould Troupe evening program. The day ends with a dance at the auditorium and a seven-ride midway. Lake Prior pool will be open for swimming all day with picnic facilities and refreshments.
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Woonsocket
Arnold Larson
Luther Dennis
Everty
Huron Brewers
Ball Park
Alperm
Gould
Lake Prior
More Butterfat Is Brought to Groton
Groton area reports higher butterfat intake with the Groton Creamery and Produce Co handling 63 customers last Saturday, 55 after 6 PM. The creamery bought 27 cans from 65 farmers totaling 27 gallons, some processed locally into butter while the rest ships out. Three silver cream buying stations in Groton Beatrice Landstberger and Fairmont facilitate shipments from Groton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Groton
Transient Dragged By Train In Watertown Incident
A man identified as I. Knicl and two railroad workers reported he was dragged about 30 feet along the Watertown tracks in rainy conditions. He fell onto the rail but escaped with minor scratches and bruises. Believed intoxicated by railroad men who found him near the tracks.
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Watertown
Aug
Ls I. Knicl
Liquor Tax Placards Criticized by South Dakota Official
South Dakota Treasurer Hinselman says placards mislead about liquor tax proceeds. He notes the 1 percent gross tax goes to general fund for state operations, while beer tax revenues and net income allocations feed the Health Security Fund.
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Pierre
South Dakota
Hinselman
General Fund
Opera
Oselman
Uquor
Hth Security Fund
Weekend Visitors Fill Burdette Plans From Nearby Towns
Week end visitors in Burdetee were C. Quin of Letcher visiting his sister Mrs Emil Mast, Mr and Mrs Matord Nelson of Cresbard at Oscar Nelsons, Mr and Mrs Gerald Wiles of Huront at his mother W Snrah Carrs, Mr and Mrs Tom Swany with relatives in Miller, Mr and Mrs William Goudie at Nathan An futouns, and G Eriman of Vilas visiting uncle John Eriman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burdette Burdette
Aug. M
C. Quin
Letcher
Sistur
Emil Mast
Matord Nelson
Cresbard
Oscar Nelvon
Gerald Wileson
Huront
W Snrah Carr
Tom Swany
Miller
William Goudie
Nathan Anfutoun
G. Eriman of
Vilas
John Eriman
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society Attendance Contest
The Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. Church met in the church parlors for an attendance contest. Mrs. Harsid Bubois led the winning side and Mrs. Iver Anferson captained the losing side. A benefit party for the society is to be given by the losers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitchcock
Womwn
Foreign Missionary Society
M. E
Harsid Bubois
Iver Anferson
Engineers Head To Fort Ripley For Two Weeks Training
Aug. 11 special report notes Louis Hamilton Wilbur Rodman Edward Hoglins and Staff Sergeant Junior Miller of the 109th Engineers prepare to leave for a two week training period at Fort Ripley Minnesota to join their unit for armed forces drill.
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Camp Wolsey
Louis Hamilton
Wilbur Rodman
Edward Hoglins
Junior Miller
Huron
109H Engineers
Fort Ripley
Minn
Mrs Bert tmuthers Arrives in Town and Moves In
Aug 11 Special Mrs Bert tmuthers moved into town and is occupying the room behind the printing office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blunt Blunt
Bert Tmuthers
Indians Tell of Alleged Wrongs in Black Hills Talk
RAPID CITY August 11 Four bronx Indian chiefs Oscar One Bull Joseph White Bull Elk Head and Two Runs discussed plans for a Standing Rock Reservation tribal council to be held later in August at Ft. Yates N D They cited alleged wrongs against the Redskins and revived talk of offering the Black Hills to Canada All four took part in the Little Big Horn battle with Sitting Bull leading the Sioux and Cheyenne forces.
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Rapid City
Battle of
Little Big Horn
Canter
Sitting Bull
St Lawrence To Have Dormitory For School Year
St Lawrence High School will open August 30 with a dormitory in operation for three years. Rural students can stay for a weekly fee of 1.80, unchanged from last term, supported by cooks, thrift in buying, government surplus foods, and local merchants. A five acre garden will supply potatoes and vegetables. Planned improvements include boys locker wardrobes, floor refinishing, wall tinting, and plumbing repairs. Deans Mrs Anna Knapp and Harold B Atz will remain.
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ST. Lawrence
St. Lawrence High School
Anna Knapp
Harold B. Atz
Social Workers To Hold Conference in Mitchell
Dakota social workers will meet in Mitchell in September 1921 for the 15th annual state conference of social workers. Mrs. A M Eberle announces the event as several hundred attendees are expected. President Ellery E Kelley of Pierre pledges attendance by nationally known authorities who spoke at Indianapolis in May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooxings
Dakota Social Workers
Mitchell
A.M. Eberle
South Dakota
Ellery E. Kelley
Pierre
Indianapolis
Kelley
J. H. Craft
Redfield
Eberle
Ruth Deets
Clarence M. Latman
Sioux Falls
Stolen Safe Recovered After Rail Heist
Stolen 20 pound express messenger safe looted at Canton and abandoned in a box car was found in Marmarth North Dakota 436 miles away. Roy Rue 41 Sioux Falls and an accomplice carried the safe from Canton office and opened it before leaving it in a box car Rue admits burglary four year sentence in South Dakota penitentiary. Rue named Charles Delvin 41 Mason City Iowa as accomplice Delvin denied Canton robbery and was sent to Pipestone Minnesota for forgery charges
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Sioux Falls
VPHA
Canton
Marmarth
N. C
Roy Rue
Railway Express Company
Rue
South Dakota
Charles Delvin
Mason City
Delvin
Pipestone
Minn
Anthrax Victims Released From Sioux Falls Hospital
Four South Dakota men treated for anthrax at a Sioux Falls hospital were discharged Tuesday hospital superintendent Rev C M Austin announced. The victims named Fred Hanson Hartford Albert S Johnson and Jack Soeth of Hucley and Edward Millard of Canton received serum and other therapies during their stay. Meanwhile in nearby Okobojo Mr and Mrs Walter Van Schaanick attended the Van Schaaick home following the death of their father Blunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Rev
C. M. Austin
Fred Hanson
Hartford
Albert S. Johnson
Jack Soeth
Hucley
Edward Millard
Canton
Blunt
Stewart Warne
Okobojo
Walter van Schanick
North
Ville
van Schaaick
Visits Sister Wolsey Aut U Special
Mrs FE A Utley and her sons of Michigan City Ind have visited at the L M Christopherson home for the past week. Mrs Utley and Mrs Christopherson are sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolsey
Fe, A. Utley
Tennis Court Project Sponsored by August U Sperial
Frank McCabe sponsors the construction of a tennis court on the old football field site. All the boys assist in the undertaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conde
August U
Sperial
Frank McCabe
Mrs Furlow and daughters visit Miller Dristy home
Mrs Leona Furlow and daughters Fern and Yoveo visited the Clark Dristy home in Miller on Sunday. They were joined by Mrs Nels Dristy and Miss Shirley Dristy. Miss Fer remained for a teen days visit.
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Miller Blunt
Ona Furlow
Fern
Yoveo
Clark Dristy
Miller
Nels Dristy
Shirley Dristy
Fer
Turkey Improvement Plan Offered for State Adoption
A tentative turkey-improvement program patterned after the National Poultry Improvement Plan is now available for state adoption. Paul B. Zumbro, USDA poultry coordinator, notes it was developed by a national committee and outlines Approved and Certified breeding stages, inspector selection, and performance standards for hatching eggs and poults with official labeling. Copies of the plan are available from the Extension Department in Brookings, South Dakota.
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Brookings
Paul B. Zumbro
U. S. Department of Agriculture
J. H. Martin
Kentucky College of Agr Ticulture
D.H. Reid
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
Carl Frischnecht
Frank Knowlton
Frank Moore
Utah
Oregon
North Dakota
H. L. Sheader
Agricultural Extension Service
Zumbro
Jerymen
Cooperative Poultry Plan
Extension Department
South Dakota
Chamber of Commerce Organized At Wolsey
A Chamber of Commerce has been organized in Wolsey with A. C. Friese as head and officers including vice president Dr M E Cogswell secretary measurer Warren Darling and directors Mr B Broe and F H Newton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Wolsey Wolsey
Wolsey
A. C. Friese
M. E. Cogswell
Measurer
Warren Darling
B Broe
F. H. Newton
Harding Visitors Reach Ida Fisher Kin At Wayland
Mr. and Mrs. William Harding of Primghar Iowa visit Ida Fisher mother in law and Susie Butter sister in Wayland with relatives Alorzo Oscar James Delbert Fisher and Mrs Charles Olson and family. Recent guests include Fletcher Fisher and baby Jeannine from Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayland
William Harding
Primghar
Iowa
Return to Wolsey and Montana trip notes
Me and Mrs George Dirkson return to Wolsey after a month away with Mrs Dirkson visiting relatives in Columbia South Dakota and Mr Dirkson doing extra university work in Minnesota for a big Wolsey schools post. Mr and Mrs William Shannon depart for Missoula Montana to visit their daughter and son in law Henry Rosethend and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolsey Wolsey
George Dirkson
Wolsey
Dirkson
Columbia
S. D
Zome
University of Minnesote
Montana
Conde
William Shannon
Missoula
Mont
Henry Roseth End
Miller Family Vacation To Detroit And Minnesota
Mr and Mrs Russell Miller and son Buddy left Monday for a week long visit with relatives in Detroit Michigan and Minnesota An aid meeting of the Methodist Aid all divisions will be held at the church parlors Thursday August 12 Members are asked to invite guests and share duties for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trif Conde
Russell Miller
Buddy
Detroit
Mich
Minnespolia
Conde
Gue
D. Singers To Start Tuning Up For State Event
BROOKINGS Aug 11 Special Amateur songstory of rural South Dakota tunes up voices for state quartet contest during Farm and Home Week at State College November 11 to 12 Entrants may be any organization meeting rules. Preliminaries set for afternoon before finals. Chorus concert follows under Prof Kohler. Last year Wesington Astoria and Freeman won quotas in women men and mixed divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State College
Kohler
State College Music Department
Wessington
Astoria
Freeman
Sioux Falls Seeks Area Conference Invitation
Sioux Falls through the Chamber of Commerce invited the United States Agricultural Committee led by Senator Ellison D. Smith to hold a northern area conference here late this month. Invitations went to Senators Smith and Bulow as hearings on crop control and crop loans proceed, with a separate group visiting Huron August 17. Joining Smith are McGill, Pope, Moora, Bankhead, and Frazier to gather farmer input on desired legislation.
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Sioux Falls
Sioux, Falls
Chamber of Commerce
United States Agricultural Committee
Ellison D. Smith
South Carolina
Smith
William J. Bulow
South Dakota
Wallace
Huron
McGill
Kansas
Pope
Idaho
Moora
New Jersey
Bankhead
Alabama
Frazier
North Dakota
Purchase Of Lambs In Hand County Special
A large crowd of farmers and livestock men gathered in Miller auditorium on Saturday to discuss buying and using ewes or lambs to consume surplus roughage in Hand County. Extension Service agent J B Johnson outlined sheep raising, lamb feeding, and cooperative buying, but no firm action emerged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hand County
Miller
Hand
J. B. Johnson
Extension Service
Farewell party honor Mrs Gehringer at Hoy home
The Get-Together Club hosted a farewell gathering at Mrs. Hoy's home honoring Mrs. D. G. Gehringer. Twelve guests attended and she received a shower of handkerchiefs before departing for Missouri later in the week. Lunch closed the afternoon activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitchcock
Dennis Family Returns From Iowa Vacation
Mr and Mrs Doyle Dennis and their daughter have come back from a 10 day vacation spent with relatives in Iowa Surdetie Aug 11 special report notes their trip to relatives in Iowa City and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Surdetie
Doyle Dennis
Iowan
Will Test Validity Of Three Petitions
A regional court in TERRE will appoint a commissioner to take testimony starting August 30 to verify signatures for three referendum petitions challenging 1997 laws. Governor Jensen and Attorney General Clair Reddwig pursue the challenge over whether 14 696 signatures were valid to refer the acts to a vote. The case stems from a winter legislative dispute over control of three state agencies. The commissioner may travel statewide to collect evidence on the disputed signatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre
Supreme Court
D. J. O'Keeffe
Pierre
Jensen
Clair Redderwig
Goldie Wells
Justice Department
Unemployment Compensation Insurance Commission
Miss Wells
Indians Confer On Exchange Of Land In South Dakota
Representatives from five South Dakota Indian reservations met with Ben Sirool and W R Hoese to discuss trading state owned land in Indian territory for federal land outside the areas. The 1927 law enables exchanges to consolidate holdings potentially involving hundreds of thousands of acres in west river counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierre
South Dakota
Ben Sirool
W. R. Hoese
Indian Territory
Sponsor Social Brings Busy Afternoon to Erwin Event
The Clara Lutheran and East Bethany joint league sponsored an ice cream social in Corey Grove. A kitterball game pitted eastern facility players against Erwin youths, with the latter winning. The Erwin bard delivered a brief evening program. the event drew many attendees and netted a fine sum for the young people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erwin
Sperials
Clara Lutheran
East Bethany
Luther Lésgue
Corey Grove
Erwin Bard
Urge Control Of Weeds In Nation
Brookings August 11 Special chairs of county agricultural conservation associations and South Dakota county agents met at Brookings for the 1938 Farm Program Planning Conference. They urged Washington AAA officials to add noxious perennial weed control to the farm adjustment program, presenting a South Dakota expression and a resolution bearing broad county signatures. The move seeks to align weed control with program goals to maintain farm income and conservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookings
South Dakton
Washington Aaa
T. B. Walker
North Central
Agricultural Conservation Program
South Dakota
South Dakota Weed Control Committee
Fosdick in Rapid City Hospital Undergoing Surgery
Augustus Fosdick of Sioux Falls is hospitalized after an operation Monday for general peritonitis. Doctors report his condition is very serious. His wife and son arrived to be at his bedside. He was admitted Saturday. Nearby, Robert Quist Clarence Quist and wife and nephew from Laurel Nebraska visited old friends in Wayland during travel to Crosbard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fosdick
Rapid City
Augus P
Tohn Fosdick
Sioux Falls
Wayland
Robert Quist
Clarence Quist
Laurel, Neb
Crosbard
Quists
Parker Blunt Drug Store Hire Reported
Charles Hess visited from Pierre after spending the weekend with family. He accepted a position in a Parker drug store and was seen in town Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker Blunt
Charles Hess
Pierre
Mr. Hess
Parker
Weed control debated at state program planning meeting
Rex Bankert, extension agronomist and state weed committee chairman, urged integrating weed control into soil resource programs. He named creeping Jenny leafy spurge and Russian knapweed as targets and warned drought and high prices threaten farmers already strained by pests. Farm reps seek justice amid losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rex Bunkert
Assigiant Extension Agronomist
Bankert
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H. E. Lilly
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Winchester
Til
Geyerman
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SAX
Carter
Bell
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