South Dakota Plans 30 Miles of New Surfaced Roads
Pierre reports the state will add over 30 miles of hard surfaced highways this year at about 2 million dollars. Oil surfacing totaling roughly 450 thousand dollars and tar surfacing around 176 thousand dollars are also planned with costs per mile varying by method. Commissioner Broke Howell lists Beadle Dakota Clay Yankton Minnehaha Codington Brown Pennington Meade Custer Fall River Lawrence, Brown Kingsbury Moody Aurora Douglas Bon Homme Lyman Stanley Jones Jackson among counties slated for paving oil and tar work.
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Pierre
South Dakota
State Highway Commission
Broke Howell
Beadle County
Davision
Yankton
Clay
Minnehaha
Codington
Brookings
Brown
Pennington and Meade
Custer
Fall River
Lawrence
Beadle
Five Cups For 4-H Club Showmanship At State Fair
Five silver loving cups will be awarded at the South Dakota State Fair in Huron September 14 to 18 to the champion 4-H club members in sheep swine dairy and baby beef showmanship. The cups are donated by the State Fair board with a fifth cup donated by Dr. G S Weaver for the champion livestock judge.
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Brookings
Huron
State Fair Board
Richard Sawyer
Howard
Mary Olive Lewis
Clear Lake
Raphael Brandrist Waverly
Chester Guliiksén
Bath
G. S. Weaver
State College
Homemaking Thrift Urged By Miss Sly
Miss Florence Sly, state supervisor, urged home economics instructors at a South Dakota conference to teach thrift to solve mood and family issues. She said homemaking work is a constant problem solving task adapting to changing conditions and emphasized diet, budgeting, and cooperative family income efforts for students.
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Broonivus
Soun Dakota Vocational
Florence Sly
Mist Sly
Gaid
Kingsbury Women At Auxiliary Gathering
Lake Preston Aug 26. Mr Harry Cole represents Lake Preston at the American Legion Auxiliary convention in Rapid City this week accompanied by Mrs Don Neumen of Lake Preston and Nice Henry Schroeder and Mrs Harry Shultz De Smet she left Saturday for the Hills after the convention the party will tour the Black Hills and return early next week Mrs Schroeder is the official delegate for the De Smet Auxiliary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsbury
Lake Preston
Harry Cole
American Legion Auxiliary
Rapid City
Don Neumen
Nice
Henry Schroeder
Harry Shultz
de Smet
Standard Bearers stage Two Masters at local church
The Standard Bearers girl’s organization presented the three act play Two Masters at the Methodist Episcopal church in Alpena. The story follows a missionary’s daughter educated in America who is drawn to stay but returns home after a sermon to aid her parents in missionary work.
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Alpena
Methodist Episcopal Church
America
Blunt Girl Recovers After Serious Wound Incident
A girl sustained a serious blunt force wound and was transported to Pierre area hospitals in multiple visits for treatment. Medical staff reported stabilization as she receives ongoing care.
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Blunt
Weveral
Pierre
Guns on Display in South Dakota University Museum
Vermillion August 26 More than 250 guns fill glass cases in the University of South Dakota museum. The assortment includes horse pistols blunderbusses pepperboxes knuckle dusters and old Kentucky squirrel rifles. A 256 gauge flintlock pistol made in London by J Over stands out among the collection.
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Northwest
University of South Dakota
Daniel Boone
London
J. Over
W. H. Over
University Museum
Surrey County
England
Mr. Over
St. Louis
Fargo Express Company
Gettysburg
Miller Woman Reelects Leader At Hand County Meeting
Mrs. L T Jarmuth of Miller was reelected president of the Hand County Sunday School association at the annual convention in Miller Ree Heights and other officers were named including Mrs Grant Byers Wayland Carrie Price Hee Heights and Mrs J F T ONeill St Lawrence The treasury held 108 and pledges were reported The group approved ten dollars for state Sunday school work and thirty dollars for local officer and leader training and aid to communities needing Sunday school help Dr W Keck of Huron and Professor Eschliman attended and spoke Attendance was described as the best in the group's history with about 24 per session A picnic lunch followed the Saturday gathering and Rev J Andrews Miller Presbyterian spoke Sunday afternoon.
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St, Lawrence
L. T. Jarmuth
Miller
Hand County Sunday School Association
Grant Byers
Wayland
Carrie Price
Hee Heights
Jf.t. O'Neill
St. Lawrence
Keck
W. Keck
Huron
Miller and Ree Heights
Eschliman
South Dakota Council of Religious Education
Myra Cotton
Pleasant Valley
Beuleh
Sunbeam Congregational Community Church
Ree Heights
J. Andrews
Miller Presbyterian Church
Improvements At Western Normal
Spearfish normal undertakes extensive improvements ahead of the fall term. The campus is enlarged while four year courses are cut, reducing faculty by four. two resignations go unfilled. A 100 foot water tower with a 125000 gallon tank and a tubular steel fire escape are added. Heating system works and gym repairs are planned amid expected enrollment shifts due to hard times.
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Spearfish
Spearfish Normal
Normal
E. C. Woodburn
Wenona Cook Hall
Rapid City
Woodburn
Hays
Alpena W C T U Names New Officers
The Alpena Woman's Christian Temperance Union held its annual meeting at Mim Eaton's home to elect officers for the coming year. Mrs. reelected as president with a treasurer named for the group.
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W.C.T.U. At
Alpena
Mim Eaton
RiarPhy
Indian Lands To Be Sold Oct 10
Rosebud agency announces sale of 19 599 acres of Rosebud Indian land with an appraised value of 186 265 to be offered October 10. Largest block in Mellette county totals 41 285 acres across 44 tracts. other counties include Todd Tripp Gregory and Lyman with multiple tracts. Highest per acre values range from 19 to 25 dollars. deposits and payment terms laid out per interior secretary rules.
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Rosebud
Rosebuel Agency
W. O. Roberts
Mellette County
Todd County
Tripp County
Gregory County
Lyman County
McMette
Lyman
Tripp
Secretary of the Interior
Kingsbury County Band Delights Tourists With Concert
A large appreciative audience gathered at the tourist park Sunday for a Kingsbury County Band concert. Directed by Carl Christensen, head of the military band at State College, the ensemble drew musicians from across the county and numbered 23 players.
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Lare Preston
Kingsbury County Band
Carl Christensen
State College
White Black Bird Shot By Farmer In Bonilla Vicinity
Fred Daugherty of Bonilla displayed a rare white blackbird shot near Bonilla. He found it among many blackbirds and sent it to a Chicago taxidermist who confirmed it as an albino rarity and the only mounted specimen of its kind known.
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Bonilla
Wellington
Fred Daugherty
Wessington
Daugherty
Chicago
Chicago Museum
Iroquois Farmer Slips Past Angry Cow Attack
Townsley Faye Townsley a farmer from 643 files south west of Iroquois was badly bruised when his cow knocked him down while rescuing his daughter from a calf. He rolled to safety after a second fall and escaped with bruises but no broken bones.
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Faye
Townsley
Here
Girl Recovering After Auto Accident In Academy
Myrtle Gillings six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Karl Gillings of Academy was reported recovering from injuries received in an auto accident Sunday. The girl was first reported killed when a car carrying her brother Carl and grandfather John Gillings up set after a blowout.
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Chamberlain
Myrtle, Gillings
Karl Gillings
Academy
Carl
John Cillings
Paving Finished on U S 12 West of Aberdeen
Paving of the two mile stretch on U S 12 west of Aberdeen is completed and will open to traffic in three weeks. An adjacent two mile section east of the city was just laid and should be usable in a week. Work will begin on extending the Yellowstone Trail eastward to the county line.
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Aberdeen
U. S. 12
Wn County
College Advises Staying Local Over Out‑of‑State Schools
Sioux Falls college president C R Lattgast urges South Dakota and Northwest students to attend in state colleges this fall and winter to aid unemployment relief and keep funds circulating locally. He cites lower costs, access to equipment, and economic benefits of staying in state.
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Sioux Falls
Colleges of America
C. R. Lattgast
Sioux Falls College
Lattgast
South Dakota
New York City
Columbia University
Ohio urged college attendance drives statewide movement
A statewide movement in Ohio aims to guide young men and women toward attending college rather than entering the job market. The initiative emphasizes higher education as a pathway to better opportunities and long term success.
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Ohio
State College to Exhibit At State Fair In September
Brookings August 26 The exhibit features farming and homemaking with multiple departments of State college collaborating. Highlights include pork curing and by products from home slaughter, pit silo building methods, home grown dairy rations, livestock market grades, grasshopper life cycle, and seed versus egg laying mash comparisons.
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Brookings
State College
A. L. Ford
Agricultural Economics Department
Poultry Department
Agronomy Department
Extension Service
Home Economics Teachers Meet At Brookings
South Dakota home economics teachers gathered at State College in Brookings for a conference. Florence Biy, state supervisor, led sessions with guests Miss Florence Fitt Ritter from the federal board for national education and Dr. Esther McGinnis of the University of Minnesota Institute of Child Welfare. Topics included home projects home visiting teaching of art child development publicity for home economics and family relationships.
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Brookings Brookings
South Dakota
State College
Landurst
Florence Biy
Florence Fitt. Ritter
Federal Board For Quasional Education
Washington, D.C
Esther McGinnis
Institute of Child Welfare
University of Minnesota
Lake Preston Man Recovering After Bat Attack
Warren Freeman of Lake Preston was hit by a baseball bat at Lake Campbell over a week ago. He remains in a Brow City hospital with a concussion but shows improvement. Doctors expected a full recovery and release home within a month.
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Lake Preston
Warren Freeman
Lake Press
Lake Campbell
Brow
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S. D. University
8. W. Keck
Hand County
New York
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Hagman
Tor
Phillips
Brown’ S
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