4-H Club Trip to Chicago Exposition Highlights
Evelyn Hartnagel recounts a Central South Dakota 4-H tour to Chicago visiting Montgomery Ward and company plants. The group toured textile testing, attended a meat of events including a 4-H members banquet, opera performances, and a musical drama. City hospitality included a luncheon at Edgewater Beach hotel and thanks to sponsors including Chicago and North Western railroad.
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Dex
International Harvesters Company
Jim
Montgomery Ward and Company
Montgomery Ward's
Marine
Edgewater Beach
Stevens Hotel
Marjorie Gillom
Robert Long
Chicago
Chicago and North Western Railroad
Mildred Johnson Recalls National 4-H Congress in Chicago
Mildred Johnson from Beadle County writes about her trip to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. She describes travel from Brookings, taxi chaos, hotel arrival, church services, museum tours at the Art Institute Field Museum and Adler Planetarium, and a Wilson entertainment program with notable speakers and performers.
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Mildred Johnson
Huron
Beadle County
Chicago
Brookings
South Dakota
Minnesota
Congress
Congress Hotel
Central Church
Sears, Roebuck and Company
To Armour and Stockyards Inn
Auditorium Hotel
Field Museum
Adler Planetarium
The
Chicago Mail
Prairie Knoll students complete Red Cross portfolio
Eighth grader Tris Vogan writes that Prairie Knoll pupils finished a school portfolio with decorations for the schoolhouse maps charts and drawings included. The class hopes readers will enjoy their book and recognize their school work.
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Prairie Knoll R. C
Prairie Knoll School
Red Cross
Tris Vogan
Broadland Girl Scout Troop Meeting Recap
Broadland Girl Scout Troop 1 met at the schoolhouse Monday evening with seven members present alongside Miss Thompson and Miss Beck. They played edge ball before business, planned a December Christmas party, and noted no meeting on December 24. After more games of Dodge Ball and First Aid the girls sang taps.
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Broadland
Thompson
Beck
Jeannette Olson
Miller 4-H Club Holds Christmas Plans at Moore Home
Handy Helpers met at Hise B Grace Moore in Miller with most members present. Evelyn Campbell spoke on kitchen care and meat in the diet. Marjorie Ann Molesworth discussed meals prepared since the last meeting. Members filled records, paid dues, and planned a December 15 Christmas party at Miss Moore's home. Jean-Lewis departed for the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago, displaying a Montgomery Ward gold medal.
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Miller 4-H
Moores
Handy Helpers Club
Hise B. Grace Moore
Miller
Evelyn Campbell
Marjorie Ann Molesworth
Dorothy Godfrey
Doris Brown
Gladys Lewis
Miss Moore
Jean-Lewis
Chicago
Montgomery Ward and Company
Marjorie Anne Molesworth
Titonka Troop Christmas Program Awards at Methodist Church
Titonka Troop held a Court of Awards and Christmas program at the Methodist church. Members Maxine Richardson Elsie Disney Dorothea Dunbar earned second class badges Jean Laskowski dressmaker badge Bettie Rae Dunbar health winner. Attendance stars went to Muriel You ney Lois Gluesing Maxine Richardson Bettie Rae Dunbar. Patricia Laskowski won the best Christmas lantern.
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Titonka
Methodist Church
Maxine Richardson
Elsie Disney
Dorothea Dunbar
Jean Laskowski
Bettie Rae Dunbar
Muriel Youney
Lois Gluesing
Patricia Laskowski
Karl Horton
Ruth Wilcox
Elen Knabe
Titania Troop
Betty Phillips
Booklets On Health Topic From Local School
Seventh and eighth graders at oury jsehool, under Edison school teacher Lyla Mae Gutaler, produced booklets titled Systems of the Inner Body. Student Bila Gross notes diagrams and writings on circulation, the heart, and related topics, choosing violet and yellow for her cover.
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Oury Jsehool
Bila Gross
Edison School
Lyla Mae Gutaler
Prairia Knoll Eighth Graders Review State Departments
Iris Vogan wrote a pupil review after the eighth grade studied the legislative judicial and executive branches of state government. The piece explains legislative as law making executive as law enforcing and judicial as law interpreting.
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Prairia Knoll School
Iris Vogan
Velma Anderson Leads Christmas Program At Footy School
Eighth grader Velma Anderson of Footy School and Gunshine Young Citizens League outlines a December 20 program at 8 PM with a basket social. Students will keep young girls baskets separate from adults and sell pop candy bars and ice cream to fund the event for all age groups.
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Velma Anderson
Footy School
Gunshine Young Citizens League
School To Sell 300 Christmas Seals
Spring Valley school received 300 Christmas seals to sell and each family in the school was given fifty to sell. Raymond Ketelson of the Golden Rule League notes the seals support tuberculosis prevention and health for Beadle county youths. He praises the designs featuring a house, trees, horses and sleigh with stars. Our teacher Miss Vera Smith offers a prize for the top seller.
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Spring Valley
Raymond Ketelson
Golden Rule League
Beadle County
Vera Smith
Pupils Fix Baked Potatoes At School
Sixth grade pupil Joe Decker of Bue Bell School writes about a new hot dish baked potatoes at school. Emma Tschetter-Hofer teaches. students bring potatoes salt sample from a company and butter from home. The ash pit under the fire cooks them, filling the room with a savory smell that makes them hungry by noon.
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Joe Decker
Bue Bell School
Emma Tschetter-Hofer
Beadle Council Swells 4-H Fund
The 4-H Council of Beadle County acted as a depository for contributions to the student 4-H loan fund. Miss Beryl Becker, council treasurer, sent in 321 dollars representing five percent of the cash prizes won by Beadle County club members Ruth Fuller Valois Clermmens Mildred Johnson Alan Oviatt Ross Oviatt Glenwood Johnson Dale Barton Jerauld Hurd Marjory Kenner eer Becker Ruby Wehr and Bernice.
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Senate County
Beryl Becker
Beadle County Club
Ruth Fuller
Valois Clermmens
Mildred Johnson
Alan Oviatt
Ross Oviatt
Glenwood Johnson
Dale Barton
Jerauld Hurd
Marjory Kenner
Eer Becker
Ruby Wehr
Bernice
Club Christmas Party Held Near Frankfort
The Lo di pastime club met for its annual Christmas gathering at Mrs. B. W. Underhill’s southwest of town with twelve members and one guest. Members quilted for the hostess, exchanged gifts, and shared lunch. Mix Poul as received a birthday cake. Next month, the club will meet at Mrs. Tom Torkelson’s home.
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Frankfort
Lodi
B. W.underhill
Mix Poulas
Tom Torkelson
Berry Works On 1935 Budget Hope To Keep Costs Low
Pierre December 17 Governor Tom Berry and advisors finish the 1935 37 budget aiming to keep it at or below the present biennium level. Budget director Frank Siewert notes the document will be ready for printers and presented to the legislature when it convenes January 8. The article outlines past cuts of 30.23 percent from 1931 33, calls for further economies, and discusses agency requests and the scope of expenditures beyond direct appropriations.
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Berg
Frank D. Kriebs
State Highway Commission
Kriebs
Berry
State Fair Board
State Cement Plant and Game and Fish Commission
Bunt to Direct Wesleyan Golden Jubilee Drive
Mitchell resident Bunt has been named director of Dakota Wesleyan University's Golden Jubilee financial drive. The campaign aims to raise 100000 dollars, beginning immediately and closing at spring commencement. Dr. Earl A. Roadman announced the plan, with Dr. J. P. Jenkins representing Wesleyan in California and Laurence Wendt handling on the ground work in South Dakota.
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Bunt
Wesleyan
Mitchell
Dakota Wesleyan University
Earl A. Roadman
J. P. Jenkins
California
Laurence Wendt
Parker
South Dakota
Help Yourself And Lend A Hand To Safer Christmas Lights
The article urges using UL approved decorative Christmas lighting and weatherproof outdoor equipment. It notes electric lights reduce previous fire hazards, warns against unsafe brands, and advises proper outdoor and indoor use, battery powered options, and care to avoid shocks on damp ground.
Truck Driver William Bell Admitted After City Collision
William Bell, driver of the truck involved in a south Sioux Falls crash that killed two people and injured three, was admitted to a hospital Saturday. He was believed to be in nervous distress following the accident.
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Sioux Falls
William Bell
Bell
Extension Clis in Highmore County Clubs Grow
Highmore South Dakota December report notes extension work expanding county clubs. W Davis Jr says 40 attendees daily, new sewing and handicraft clubs forming, eight 4 H clubs last year and more active soon. Kenneth Anderson Brookings visited, conducting rope making demos at four schools. Temperature fact noted separately.
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Soosea
Wes
Highmore
Basabets Barron
Brookings
Methodist Church
W. Davis
Kenneth Anderson
Peterson
South Dewey
South Penn
East Peng
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National Committee On Boys and Girls Club
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Ynolds Tobacco Company
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Alberti
Prince
Chilsanss
Bim
K. C. Ball
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Hits
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Byron
Willam Myma Powell
Evelyn Prentice
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