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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1940
Page
8
The U P S Store invites customers to join their friend list and showcases weekend specials including Palisade Colorado peaches Italian prunes Bartlett pears red Malaga grapes fresh cabbage oranges and Crisco shortening. Argo corn starch and Argo glass starch are on sale, with two pound Nash's coffee cans and other staples featured.
Vermillion reports a more than 500 percent rise in college correspondence enrollments in the State University Extension division over four years. Courses number 186 across 28 departments, taught by university staff. loan service offers 2700 plays to junior and senior high groups. audio-visual aids include a visual education library with slides films and prints.
Local notices list residents visiting relatives and friends across Bancroft, Blunt, Alpena, Carpenter, Bonilla, and surrounding towns. Names include Glen Jencks family, Olaf Tollefson, Tene Huffman, Emmet Hustis, Mary Carrol Bottum, Augusta Alber, A. C. Lahren, Evelyn Maass, Lena Hammer, Clyde Roeber, George Wintle, Nels Madsen, Harvey Wicks, Kate Rice, Alice Bodal, and Grace Frye, with travel and hospital moments noted.
The second annual Faith Sheep Show will feature high quality breeding ewes and rams to improve feeder and market lambs. A Rambouillet champion from Coal Springs, bred by Montana State College, highlights the display. Thousands of feeder lambs travel to eastern markets, and 50 plus fleeces are expected for the wool exhibit. A WPA project funds a permanent expo building in Faith, able to house over 500 sheep and seat 600 people, with Meade County commissioners and local sponsors pushing completion by August 30.
Vandalia Ohio August 22 1940 top marksmen vie for a 5000 purse in the Grand American preliminary handicap 100 targets. W R Winteringham of Barrington Illinois set last year’s standard by breaking 99 pigeons from 22 yards to win. Indiana's five man team dethroned Ohio in the state championship with 981 of 1000. Minnesota finished fourth with 973.
Verla Wheeler captured the sweepstakes prize in a coloring contest with consistent superior entries. Other winners listed include Mary Jane Gilbert Beverley Marso Helen Packard Ralph Oliva Dick Buck Jimmy Maras Darlene Peterson Lucille Presho and Joyce Reinartz.
Winners may receive tickets at the Huron Theatre box office for attending the show. Ten theatre tickets are awarded weekly to children who best color a page from the Saturday Huronite comics. Entries must be in the Huronite office by 5 PM next Wednesday. Crayplay or watercolors allowed.
Ted Lyons, White Sox pitcher, has endured chronic appendicitis for four to five years and declines surgery. A railway station in Johannesburg, South Africa, houses a shrine for Moslem travelers.
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