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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1931
Page
5
Frigid air moved across Minnesota and North Dakota overnight causing dropped temperatures and widespread cold conditions. Officials advised layering up and limiting travel as wind chills remained dangerously low.
The Washington Franklin and Lincoln schools report a four subject honor roll with 186 girls and 42 boys over six weeks. Superintendent A J Lang lists 1 86 girls and 42 boys as high achievers across multiple schools including Washington and McKinley with many named students. Public typewriters in Germany show 1 000 strokes to an operator on insertion of a coil in a special attachment.
Redfield responds generously to the unemployment fund drive on the first day. Canvassers report unanimous business district support with pledge options including a penny meal per day, a month's salary, or any monthly pledge. Northwestern Public Service employees pledge ten percent of salary for four months, matched by the company. Public schools contribute via staff and officials. About 20 men have received three weeks of work building a dam on Turtle Creek at Second Street.
Leo Cook faces a second liquor charge this year and was due to be arraigned before Municipal Judge Haney. Deputies and federal agents arrested him near his Wolsey area farm after finding two pints of alcohol and one pint of moonshine in his car. He previously pleaded guilty to possession of intoxicating liquor last summer and was fined 250 and sentenced to 30 days in jail.
Clyde R. Smith announced the Elks lodge charity committee will meet tonight with heads of Huron charities to plan the annual Christmas baskets distribution. A list of recipients is expected from the session in the Elks hall Women’s room. Authorities reported 27 calls for winter footwear and clothing at Associated Charities headquarters in City Hall.
Mitchell December 1. Lewis A. Larson and George K. Funston, both of Sioux Falls, are South Dakota's Rhodes scholarship candidates. Larson graduated from Augustana and attends South Dakota University law school. Funston studies at Trinity College in Hartford. They join 19 others from five states in Des Moines on December 9 for district examination. two will be chosen for Oxford. Huron entrants Lamb and Nelson placed well but did not win the top two.
Anoka reports a fire last night leveled the First Congregational Church, damaging the 1869 structure. Loss pegged at 20000 with partial insurance coverage. Separate note estimates if the nation divided 2831 improved pecans among all people, each would get about half a pound.
Washington dispatch reports two democratic paths for 1932: Governor Roosevelt of New York and Newton Baker of Ohio. Farley, state chairman, predicts Roosevelt will win on the first ballot after talks with congressional leaders and a stop in Warm Springs. A Baker draft campaign emerged in Ohio, but Baker indicated he would support Ohio’s delegation for Governor White.
Overnight a sharp temperature drop left Huron at 1 above zero this morning, with the fall exceeding 30 degrees from yesterday’s mild weather. The forecast calls for continued cold tonight but potential warmer conditions tomorrow as South Dakota avoids extreme cold.
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