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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1929
Page
6
The Ladies Altar Society will gather Thursday at 2 PM for important parish business. Colfax Rebekah Lodge No 8 meeting planned for Wednesday was cancelled.
A Sunday diary from a South Dakota farm woman recounts visits from family and neighbors in a busy day. She notes plans for a September 4 wedding date, a honeymoon drive to the Hills, and prep for home projects and canning while managing chores, laundry, and jellymaking.
A letter from Mother arrives with news of a Lake Minnetonka trip and a September visit for a family wedding. Dan hauls wood for kindling and coal, while Mary and Nancy manage poultry, brooder house chores, attic book sorting, cake baking, and new furniture deliveries.
In Saint Paul Minnesota on August 27 delegates and visitors at the 30th annual VFW encampment watched a military show at Fort Snelling. The display showcased the latest warfare methods after a brief morning business session. More than twenty drum corps performed and drilled in preparation for the national contest on Wednesday.
Heavy rain and high winds broke a long spell of drought at Argonne on Saturday evening. Crops benefited but hay cut earlier was swept away, worsening feed shortages in the area as the year progresses.
Numerous short items survey residents traveling for work and education, theater news, visiting friends, and upcoming local activities. People include Mrs. George Kennard heading to Sioux Falls, Esther Terpening starting stenography work, and Howard Barrett en route to the University of Oregon.
All weeds on the highways of Clyde township must be cut before September 1 or the township will cut the weeds and charge cost to adjoining land. Thad Oviatt, clerk. August 27, 1929.
Aberdeen August 27 Mrs Edward Y Wildebrandt wife of a Mina farmer was critically injured when grabbed by the sickle of a mowing machine near her farm home. She was rushed to an Aberdeen hospital with both legs badly cut.
Argonne, Aug 27. Lightning struck the storm torn barn on the farm home of Toma Pillard five miles northeast of here. Mrs Pillard led out one team and two calves before flames engulfed the structure. Pigs calve oats wool harness and grain were destroyed. Insurance on the building declined by lapse. total insured amount 700 dollars.
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