Plans For Rehabilitating Cheyenne River Area Nearing Completion
Federal planners edge toward a 50 year program transforming 16 000 acres along the Cheyenne River with irrigation ditches and government owned land. 160 families chosen by the FSA will settle 100 acre economic units at about 425 dollars yearly rent, with purchase options after ten years, to stabilize a drought hit economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Mikkelson
Cheyenne River
Here
South Dakota
Homer M. Derr
Jackson Narrows
Wyoming
Angostura
Columbia
Oval
Francis Case
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
WPA
CCC
Cheyenne
FSA
Rehabilitating Farmland Near Oral With Irrigation Prospects
Plan details for stabilizing a ranch region southeast of Oral through a 10 year testing period and long term purchase, using Cheyenne river water to grow alfalfa corn sorghums beans potatoes and potentially sugar beets. About three miles wide irrigated zone south of the river, homes for replanted farmers, FSA case workers selecting families under 50 in good health, CCC and WPA labor aiding construction, and annual county tax adjustments to reflect improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oral
Farm Security Administration
FSA
Local Neighborhood News Highlights Travel and Weddings
Mrs George Brugger returns from Huron after visiting family as Edna Milne heads to Le Mars for a wedding where Gleva becomes Mrs Grant Hansen. Various residents report trips, hospital stays, and social visits in Tulare Blunt Alpena Bonilla and nearby communities with band performances and relatives sharing weekends and travels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lane
Helen Winters
Nora Bastel
Valparaiso
Ind
Helen
George Winters
Miss Bastel
Miss Winters
Selmer Lillehaug
Camp Claiborne
Pete Lillehang
E May
Elgin
Okla
Lloyd Miller
Wilbert Marzahn
Des Moines
Hitchcock
Fends
Will Schwabauer
Rudolph Lundborg
Forestburg
Tulare
George Brugger
Huron
Herman Binger
Milton
Edna Milne
St. Lawrence
le Mars
Warner Hubbard
Gleva
Grant Hansen
Rock Island
Henry Tschetter
Bonilla
Robert Bales
Ruby Galliger
Hilda Dahlin
Arlene Palmer
Gloria Phillips
Bonia
American Legion
Tollak Tollefson
Laverne
Theone
Tol Jefson
Doris
Ruth
Jeanine
Arlet
WCTU Holds 52nd SD Convention in Brookings Sept 16 18
The 52nd annual convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union of South Dakota will meet in Brookings September 16 to 18. State College president Dr Lyman Jackson and Miss Reena E Shaner lead notable speakers. youth council head Esther Ronshaugen presides at closing. Robert Vessey and Mas Halistrom among others to speak. banquet led by Mary Gilman with Lyda Berkelman presenting children’s work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WCTU
Brookings
Women's Christian Temperance Union of
South Dakota
Lyman Jackson
State College
Reena E. Shaner
Missouri
Mary Herrick
Benedicta Lewis
Pierre
Esther M. Ronshaugen
Homestake
Mary Gilman
Lyda Berkelman
Stickney
the Loyal Temperance
Brookings Mission Hill group officers named
President Flora A. Mitchell Brookings with vice president Mary Gilman lead a local group. Corresponding secretary Myrtle B. Wallis Brookings and recording secretary Katherine Peters Hazel serve, with treasurer Mary Lyman Mount Vernon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flora A. Mitchell Brookings
Mary Gilman
Mission Hill
Myrtle B. Wallis Brookings
Katherine Peters
Hazel
Mary Lyman
Mount Vernon
White copper origin tale tied to pack fong claim
The passage states that Nickelsilver was produced in China before Columbus and was known there as pack fong, meaning white copper. It asserts an ancient Chinese origin for the metal prior to European discovery of the Americas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
New World
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Reclamation Service of
Interior Department
The
Agriculture Department
Geneves
Aran
Huron Mills, Inc
Col. A. J. Drexel Biddle
United States Marine Corps
Philadelphia Navy Yard
H. E. James
Gann Valley
F. W. James
W.S. C
R. FE. Schamber
Edward Knodel
H. D. Meeves
A. E. Denison
Virgil Homemakers Extension Club
Christian Bader
Erwin Schmidt
Alfred Denison
Oscar Sprecker
Stokol
Neighborhood News
Blunt
Bob Marsh
Eugene
Ore
Roy Halsey
Stella Cowan
la Verne
Kenneth Stewart
St. Mary’s Hospital
Roy Schillerstrom
Minneapolis
Chicago
Quebec
Foronto
Canada
Atade
Madera
Railbons
Donn
Chas. H. Robeson Smith Jewelry Store
Dakota
Peter Mintener Lumber Co
Kansas, S.eb
Fortune
America
Osborn
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