Roads in South Dakota Report Good Overall in Jan 1930
The South Dakota Highway Commission reports opening of 1930 finds graveled roads generally good, except extreme north where snow hinders traffic. Earth roads rough due to thaws and freezes. most highway work closed for winter. Main routes show varied conditions from good to fair, with gravel predominance and some poor earth stretches.
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U. S
Han
Fair
Coster Battlefield
Minnesota Line
Sioux Falls
Emery
Mt. Vernon
Kimball
Chamberlain
Presho
Murdo
Kadoka
Wasta
Rapid City
Blackawk
Blackhawk
Sturgis
Wyoming
Ktavel
Xoad
Meridian
Yankton
Midway
Freeman
Salem
Winfred
Madison
Arlington
Waterstown
Sisseton
North Dakota
Tyndall
Mitchell
Forestburg
Huron
Daland
Verdon
Earch
Groton
Earthn Fair
New Stagel
South Iour
Plankinton
South
Jerauld
Wolsey
Redfield
Aberdeen
North Dakota Line
Watertown Junior High School Reopens After Fire Damages
Watertown reports the junior high school will reopen Monday January 6 after a fire damaged the building prior to the school year. Total renovation cost reaches 15727.98 with insurance adjusting 15270 Wor Mackenzie notes Brickell Construction to be paid 12630.70 for labor and rebuilding including boiler room slabs plaster and room reconstructions.
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Watertown
Harald Mackenzie
Wor. Mackenzie
Brickell Construction Company
Cave-Ins Slow Yankton Building Progress
Repeated bank cave-ins hinder Montgomery Ward and Company construction in Yankton. Over the past week slides moved tons of dirt, footings and gray work worsened by slides. Workers are adding supports as walls are dug out to prevent further damage, with foundation work on two sidewalk-bordered sides to start immediately and the rest to follow.
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Yankton
Tan
Montxromery Ward and Company
Forty-Nine Attend Fourth Automobile School in Brookings
About fifty persons attended the fourth school for automobile ramp adjusters in Brookings, ending Friday. The two day session taught mechanics to adjust lights as required by South Dakota motor vehicle law, with Dean Crothers of the state college engineering school and M. R. Bass of St. Paul Andrew Marvick supervising the instruction.
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Brookines
Fan
South Dakota
Dean Crothers
Castege
M. R. Bass
St Pfland
Andrew Marvick
Frankfort Commercial Club elects officers for 1939
Frankfort Special reports FE. Coat will lead the Frankfort Commercial club in 1939 after election at the annual meeting. He will be assisted by O. J. Haar as vice president and Harry Westwood as secretary and treasurer.
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Frankfort
Coat
Keystane Consol Gold Mine Update at Hot Springs
Recent developments at the Keystans Consolidated Gold Mine in Hot Springs reveal the Bullion lode now opens a wedge 300 feet deep and 20 feet wide, connecting to the Columbia property. Analyzed ore shows gold worth $12.50 per ton with 15 percent arsenic. arsenic value matches gold.
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Hills
Hot Springs
Keystans ‘Consolidated Gold Mine], Inc
Columbia
Pardon Board Announces First 1930 Meeting
Pierre M D announces the pardon board will meet Tuesday in the office of the presiding Supreme Court judge James Brown. Secretary Miss Glee dys Pyle and Attorney General M Q Sharpe fill the board. Thirteen inmates have filed clemency applications including William E Larson and Frank Howard.
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William E. Larson
Brown County
Larson
Echo
The
South Dakota Messenger
Jesy D. McCaun
Yankton County
Yankton
Veterans’ Hospital
Frank Howard
Clark County
Fred Schburtz
Moody County
Pardon Board
Supreme Court
James Brown
Carl Sherwood
Brown
Sherwood
Dozen Sentenced in Pennington County Court Case
In Pennington County District Court Judge Harold R. Hanley sentenced twelve individuals Friday. George Bartlett pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter for drowning the infant child of his daughter and received an indeterminate prison term. Mrs Bartlett’s charge was dismissed earlier. Four Rapid City men aged 19 to 22 also faced prison terms: Harold Canfield four years Melvin Rommel five Harry Orrison three years and three months and Rosapfrt Hobert two years and nine months for burglary third degree.
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Rapid City
J.to
Pennington County
Bimcuit
Harold R. Hanley
Sioux
Fallo
George Bartlett
Bartlett
Elk Point Plans First Winter Show With Multiple Exhibits
Elk Point ia planning its largest winter show with a corn and train display, a poultry show, a women’s work exhibit, and more spread across January and February. A. L. Ford will speak on farm problems and Mrs Mayme Flinders will lead a program for women. Winners of the Union county 10 acre corn contest will be announced and prizes awarded along with the silver cap.
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Elk Point
A. L. Ford
Mayme Flinders
Union County
Bandits Blow Open Bank Vault in Meckling Christmas Burglary
Bandits forced entry into the Bank of Meckling on Christmas morning blasting the outer safe and leaving nitroglycerin in the inner door. An Omaha safe expert opened the vault without loss, as would accompany an attempted theft. The attackers fled after learning townspeople were stirring, while the bank resumed operations with repairs estimated in the hundreds.
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Vermillion
Omiaha
Nev
Meckling
Hendry Taylor
Omaha
Frankfort Girl Is Married Wednesday
Miss Sylvia Higgins of Frankfort and Arnold Sidmore of St. Paul Minn were united in marriage at the Methodist church on January 1 by Rev Whalley The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Higgins Sr pioneer residents of the community The groom formerly lived in Frankfort and is a land employee of Commercial Electric of St Paul They will reside in St Paul after the ceremony
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Sidmore
St. Paul
Debate materials available at U S D for teachers
Vermillion March 4 University of South Dakota extension division offers debate material on the state debate league to high school teachers. Also available are special class materials and lantern slide sets for illustrated lectures and home study courses for South Dakota citizens.
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Vermillion
S. BD
Extension
University of South Dakota
South Dakota
Vermillion Center Extends Cooperative Education Access
A program offered in cooperation with the federal Department of Education extends center extension work with front credit toward graduate or undergraduate degrees. Classes of 15 or more are organized at accessible Vermillion points to provide expanded opportunities.
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Federal
Department of Education
James Brady Showing Signs of Improvement
James G Brady remains unconscious in an Aberdeen hospital after over 130 hours but showed signs of consciousness yesterday. Officials press for clues in the mystery of his illness with Deputy Sheriff Hoke Lockington advancing a theory that he was in Aberdeen when struck and driven into the countryside before notifying his family.
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James Brady
Aberdeen
James G. ‘Grady
Braday
Hoke Lockington
Brady
Former Brookings Student To Appear In Concert
Ruth Haroldson, former Brookings High School and South Dakota State College student and current violin soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, will perform at the State College auditorium on Tuesday evening January 7. She studied with Jacques Gordon at the American Conservatory in Chicago and has won the Julian foundation scholarship three times. she is 20 years old.
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Brookings, S. BD
Tan Doee
Ruth Haroldson
Brookings High School
South Dakota State College
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
State College
Miss Harodson
Jacques Gordon
Surgerican Conservatory
Chicago
Miss. Haroldson
Juilart Foundation of
New York
Gas tax shows large increase in 1929 collections
South Dakota gas tax receipts for 1929 totaled $4,680,160.21, a record high and up by 302,122.35 from 1928. Tax paid on 117,003,831.04 gallons rose from 1928’s $4,008,020.94. Refunds reached $1,134,387.68, up $295,229.39. Funds were allocated to the motor vehicle exemption, highway bonds, administration, and the highway fund, with remaining cash to be transferred Jan 10.
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Perth
Abbreviated Land Transfers List From Local Archives
A fragmented record shows multiple conveyances and small sums between individuals and banks across sections 110 to 112 in townships 1 and 4. Names include Maude Waters, Frank Webster, Guy Strub, Folkert Poppen, Elzo Sprang, Glenn Jencks, and Horten, with prices noted as $1.00 or $3300.00 and references to NW and SW parcels and lot and block designations.
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Horten
Johnson
Helena Marie Baulson
Andrew N. Teuseff
Maude Waters
Frank Hy Webster
Strub
Guy C
Geo
C. Popnen
Folkert Poppen
SW Ld
Lot
Blk
Bancroft
Land Transfers in Kingsbury County Report
Furnished by 3.0L Purintun Abstractor Andrew Bouma et al to Eie Jones SW 94-112-56 for $1 and other value. Jesse I. Case to J. E. Case and Song Twe NW 1-4 and Ple SE 22-1094 for $1. E. AL Ruden to Paul Anderson for $14. Davis to Sumner B Davis 109-53 for $1 and other value. Davis to Mary E Davis NE 1-? for $1 and other value. W George to Otis J Peters Pt SE 109-54 for $2500. Homer R Johnson et al Trustees to ...
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Kingsbury County
Purintun
Andrew Bouma
Eie Jones
Jesse I. Case
J. E. Case
Song
E. AL Ruden
Paul Anderson
Davis
Sumner
B. ‘Davis
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Bolles
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Warness
Va Sera
Guy Day
School of Opportunity
Aberdeen Business. College
Dakota
Sherman
Moe
DE. A
Wollmank
Huron Dental Clinic
Olympia Candy
Electom
HE. A. Jonnsos
Appotn
Neil
Tring
Anacd
Kodak Fins
Perriton
Horon
Huron Clinic
Sprague
D. Sewall
Gue Hospital
W. H. Saxton
M.D
J. G Suibley
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Burlington
Victoria Challies
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