Redistricting Aims To Equalize Rural Credit Coverage In Sd
Pierre August 13 The rural credits department completes redistricting by Walter Willy to balance workload. Thirteen districts replace twelve with lines listing counties and number of farms delinquencies and items per district across Southeast East Northeast Aberdeen Huron Pierre Belvidere Timber Lake Lemmon Belle Fourche Rapid City Chamberlain.
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Pierre
South Dakota
Walter Willy
Rural Credits Department
Willy
Gregory
Charles Milx
Douglas
Hutchinson
Turner
Lincoln
Bon Homme
Yankton
Clay
Union
Kingsbury
Brookings
Sanborn
Miner
Lake
Moody
Davison
Hanson
McCook
Minnehaha
Northeast
Marshall, Roberts
Day
Grant
Deuel
Clark, Hamlin
Codington
Aberdeen
Campbell, MacPherson, Brown
Walworth
Edmunds
Potter and Fauts
Huron—Spink
Beadle
Pierre—Sully
Hyde, Hughes and
Stanley
Belvidere
Haakon
Jones
Jackson
Washabaugh
Claims Unemployed Do Not Want Work
Rapid City August 13. Floyd Kerr a rancher north of Wasta claims laziness is a main reason for unemployment in the region. He traveled the streets seeking a hired man and was told why work when the city will support me. Kerr plans to enter a veterans hospital this winter and needs help on his ranch for a month and a half offering fifty cents a day plus board and room. He notes 100 or more Kerrsais farmers in the county would provide free board and room for light winter work.
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Rapid City
Floyd Kerr
Wasta
Kerr
Veterans Hospital
Mission Taken By Blaze Wagner Garage Construction
Aug. 43 Wark has started on a new 40 by 60 foot one story garage and industrial building at Marty Mission South of Wagner to replace the lost fire damaged structure. Fireproof materials chosen. includes industrial rooms and mission garage. expected ready for school opening.
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Blaze Wagner
Marty Mission
Wagner
Frontier story set in Black Hills film planned
Hollywood reports Howard Estabrook, adapter of Cimarron from Edna Ferber, has written a new pioneer tale titled Frontier for Richard Dix. Set largely in Deadwood South Dakota, the action features historical characters without exact names. Estabrook notes the work remains historically inspired rather than strictly factual.
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S. D
Black Hills
Hollywood
Cal
Cimarron
Howard Estabrock
Edna Ferber
Richard Dix
Derrick urges focus on methods for cooperative marketing
BROOKINGS Aug 13 Cooperation marketing has made progress but requires tighter attention to operation methods. B B Derrick head of the federal farm board in the central states told South Dakota teacher delegates that success hinges on genuine need for organization, adequate volume, management, capital, informed membership, selective policies, product standardization, market information and sound sales. He emphasized the board’s long term plan to develop a marketing system returning full market value to producers.
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Brookings
BR. B. Derrick
Central ‘States
Federal Farm Board
South Dakota
Derrick
Augustana Graduate Enters Rush School
Miss Vera Leaf, Augustana college graduate cum laude, has been admitted as a student in the Rush School of Medicine in Chicago. She majored in biology, served as college nurse, and assisted the dean of women alongside regular academics.
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Augustana
Rush School
Sioux Falls
Vera Leaf
Augustana College
Rush School of Medicine
Chicago
Lemmon plans new city hall and fire station
Lemmon city council awarded a $14 175 general construction contract to HL F Hustad for the new city hall and fire station. Plumbing and heating went to W T Anderson for 3505 dollars and electrical work to Finbell Electric of Miller for 349 dollars. Work will start when materials arrive.
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Lemmon
HL F. Hustad
W. T. .Anderson
Finbell Electric Company
Miller
General
More Than $5 000 Is Expended For Relief In Mitchell
Mitchell relief groups report 5844.24 spent from the Community Chest this year with 8197.69 cash received on pledges leaving 2223.46 for distribution. A cooperative committee was appointed to plan charity case handling in Davison county and will submit plans to the county commissioners. The Davison County Health Association was excluded since it can raise funds via Christian health seals.
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Mitchell
Davison County
Davison County Health Association
Christanag Health
Mitchell Water Plant Celebrates First Birthday
Mitchell marks its water plant one year of operation with a record 300 million gallons pumped. In eight months of 1931 the plant moved 186.455 million gallons, well above previous years while Mayor George Fredericks lauded the new system and noted no return to artesian wells. Redfield contractor A B Smith dies after long illness at 75. born in Wisconsin, he designed public buildings and homes in Redfield area and is survived by son Marion E. Smith and two daughters.
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Mitchell Water Plant
Mitchell
City Water Works
George Fredericks
Redfield
Smith
Mr. Smith
Wisconsin
Offender Returns To City Must Serve Time
In Sioux Falls judge suspends a days jail term for Richard Hall after he left town to dodge the order. He returned and was ordered to serve the remaining 50 days in municipal court. Also notes the incorporation of Major Amusement Company of Mobridge with 40000 capital to run a movie theater, founders Adams Stacy and Donahue of Mobridge.
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Sioux Falls
Richard Hall
Hall
Hull
Pierre
Aug
Mobridge
W. W Adams
Elizabeth Stacy
W. B. Donahue
Fire 18 Started Near Joe Creek Campers
A Sunday morning fire started by campers near Joe Creek spread quickly due to high wind and dry tinder. Settlers formed a large mob to fight the flames, resulting in minimal damage beyond several acres of grass and Amber being burned.
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Joe Creek
Hmber
Nebraska Woman Seeks Market For Crop Of Hoppers
Yankton, Aug 13 1931 A Nebraska woman asks the Yankton chamber of commerce for names of buyers to sell grasshoppers as fish bait at 2 cents per quart. She notes a grasshopper outbreak harming crops in South Dakota and offers to ship large quantities.
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Yankton
Nebraska
Norar
South Dakota
See
Y Chamber of Commerce
Barbers Cut Rates Plankinton In New Display
Plankinton barbers restore pre war pricing as a new display this week signals changes in shop rates. Local patrons note the return to earlier prices reflecting economic shifts.
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Plankinton
Price Card Promotes Bar Cuts and Shares Ad Rates
A vintage price card lists bar cuts at 35 cents and shares at 15 cents. The text argues for attempting to insist on restoring prices, reflecting a push to recover old rates despite the era’s market context.
Madison Grain Shipments Reflect Local Crop Conditions
In Madison on August 13 a South Dakota crop snapshot shows elevated grain inbound to terminal markets. Elevators report six carloads of oats from northwestern Iowa and a carload of wheat for feed, plus another six carloads of oats barley and wheat, while only two carloads of fish will depart.
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Madison
South Dakota
Iowa
Sioux City
Normal repair work nearly finished at Eastern Normal dormitory
Madison reports near completion of repairs at the girls dormitory of Eastern Normal. The July project by ten men covers painting and refinishing woodwork, roofing, new sashes, door and window work, and general hardware upgrades with weather stripping being installed as conditions allow.
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Madison
Eastern Normal
Mets
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C. W. Mulford
Bloomfield, Neb
Lindy
Thomas
Benj. Thomas
Robert W. Vance
Masonic Temple
Paowe
Humphrey
Geviass
Freding
Humphry
Richard
U. S
Department of Agriculture
McKesson Service
Ploggist
Turon
Gateway OF Minneapolis
V.B. Clark, Mone
Wees Srucme
Osa. F.C
Weer
Turkey
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
Georgia
Carolinas
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
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