Beauty Of Black Hills In Winter Tourists Fever
Rapid City report notes Black Hills keep bustling in winter with 75 tourist camps and 2,500 cabins. Foregoing seasonal lull, visitors from many states fill main streets as camp operators repair, improve, or scout ideas while Mount Rushmore sometimes blends with gray skies.
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Black Hills
Rapid City
Union
South Dakota
Southland
Winter life and industry in the Black Hills
The article describes a busy winter in Rapid City and the Black Hills with 2500 to 5000 soldiers and workers expected for a new Army bombing base, housing and tourism camp demand, souvenir crafts from miners and lapidarists, and winter sports at Grizzly and Bald Mountain. It notes forest output, trapping, fishing, lumber camps, Christmas tree trade shifting to pines, and Finnish steam baths as year round attractions in Lead and surrounding towns.
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Rapid City
Lead
Madison Square Garden
New York City
National Forest
C. Pa
Black Hills
Mount Rushmore
Deadwood
Canton
Sylvan Lake
Northwest
Black Hille
Peder’ Falstad
Devils Lake
N.D
United States
Bald Mountain
Terry Peak
Cheyenne Crossing
Dalton Park
Forest Service
Piedmont
American Legion
Orman’ Lake
North
Biorm
Moon
Pennington
Hill City
Meade County
Paul Bunyan
Homestake Mining Company
Santa Claus
Wessington Catholic Church Hosts Farewell Party
In Wessington on January 15 Special parish gathering honored the John Feter family as they move to Salem. A large crowd attended a church basement party with card prizes won by Frank Wuestewald Tony Fermholz Leonard Feterl and Miss Clara Feter. Mrs Feterl received a gift from the Altar Society and a potluck lunch followed.
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Wessington
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
John Feter
Salem
Frank Wuestewald
Tony Fermholz
Leonard Feterl
Clara Feter
Feterl
Altar Society
Couple Celebrate 52nd Anniversary
GETTYSBURG January 15 Special Mr and Mrs Dudley Palmer quietly celebrated their fifty second wedding anniversary here Sunday January 11 They were married in the home of the bride in 1899 by J D Aison a Methodist minister Mr and Mrs Palmer have ten children six boys and four girls Mrs Palmer declared I was married sixteen but I would not allow my girls to even have a beau at that age.
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Gettysburg
Dudley Palmer
J. D. Aison
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By Redford H. Dibble
Hinck Hills
South
Rushmore Less Beautiful
Willard
Mumphrey, Drugglat Sherman & Mol
Rapid City Daily Journal
Aes
Alea
Clyde Iee
George Hopkins
Devil's Tower
Black Hills National Forest
Mia Fark
Habicht
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