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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1936
Page
6
A crowded Thursday features multiple Society events across Huron area. Ladies Aid and Parish groups plan meetings, while several farewells and parties honor departing residents and celebrate milestones at homes and churches.
Weather details show temperature and precipitation figures with normal comparisons for current period. Forecasts for Huron and vicinity predict mostly cloudy conditions with minimal temperature change across South Dakota Iowa and Minnesota sections. A Chicago youth William Webster, aged two, is noted for escaping seven times in four years from the state reformatory at St Charles.
L A Groves of Huron Construction Co says preparations begin for the post office addition while awaiting formal notification. An Associated Press dispatch from Washington reported the firm’s low bid of 120,513 for the project was accepted, with about 25 men to work this fall and winter.
Watertown hosts two members named to state offices as Mrs. Bultman is elected president and Katherine Schultz is corresponding secretary. The three day session in Huron features contests, demonstrations, and guests from Chicago and Minneapolis.
Federal meteorologist H Charles D Reed reports in the weekly crop summary that rains arrested further corn deterioration across the state. Showers covered all areas though drought lingers in central and western counties with only temporary relief in some zones. Yields vary from a few bushels per acre to eight per acre for the best corn with half the acreage dead brown or poor and only fodder value in parts.
Harold Markey to speak before Kiwanis in Redfield. Had tours of several families report deaths and visits across Flora and nearby towns. Multiple residents travel to Chicago Sioux Falls Rochester and Mitchell for family matters and hospital care.
Mrs. Moore, daughter of Mr and Mrs Rush, recently moved here from Mitchel. Eddie Rohxabaugh and Miss Maxine Morse returned Monday from a two week visit with Maxine's mother Mrs Ellen Morse and family near Elk Point, South Dakota.
In Warsaw Aug 22 American travelers faced arrests and detentions due to Poland strict money export laws. Mrs. Frederick Atkinson of Minneapolis was released and charges dropped, while Mrs Sonia Nodegg of New York was freed after five days. Several others were reported cleared or released as officials navigated the case.
A woman reported five days of detention after customs officials seized her passport and a nonnegotiable paper at the border amid a dispute over declaring a letter of credit as foreign money. The ministry of justice intervened to order her release. A man named Furmanski claimed overcrowded Gdynia jail forced him to sleep on the floor after being seized for carrying an American bank book.
Beadle County 4 H and Beadle County Fair Grounds host the Beadle 4 H Junior Fair tomorrow with exhibits in poultry livestock home furnishing and agriculture. Agnes Hansen and HL WL Jones will judge the demonstrations while Beadle County 4 H Council conducts a 1 oclock program and officers election.
Thomas J. Pendergast of Kansas City Democratic leader did not rest well after an abdominal operation yesterday at Roosevelt Hospital where he is confined.
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