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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1931
Page
7
The Arsour market held steady to slightly down Wednesday as receipts totaled about 2,300 hogs. Prices for good and choice grades ranged from 7.15 to 9.75 with top carries around 7.15. Cattle and sheep offerings were larger than a week ago, with calves shrinking and buyers lifting prices to assure supplies.
Wheat prices showed little enthusiasm with a sag in the Argentine weather report. May closed unchanged and July rose 4 cents. Coarse grains were mainly steady to soft as cash wheat stayed slow. Corn demand improved while oats stayed quiet and rye remained fair to good. Barley for quality held firm with feed grades slow and easy. MT demand was fair to good and fortunes varied.
Sioux Falls and Sioux City market notes list live poultry, eggs, butter, and ducks with varied weights and price ranges. Reports include Hens, Leg horn hens, Leghorn springs, ducks, geese, and dressed poultry with per pound prices. Chicago and New York pricing for butter eggs and poultry are also cited, reflecting market strength and wider demand.
Sioux Falls cattle and hog markets show modest declines and steadier trends. Cattle 200 head steady to 25 lower with top around 785 and bulk near 7.15. hogs 20,008 head opening steady to weak with meat weights dull. bulls and stockers weak to 35 down. savable feeder a limited supply. reports note weak bullock and feeder demand in early trading.
The report lists various grain grades and percentages including durum and mixed durum around 7 to 46 percent, yellow, white, and red varieties, flax and rye prices, and single entries such as northern wheat and a 1.55 LH figure, reflecting a fluctuating market.
New York stocks show gains for rails like U S Steel and Bethlehem Steel while others back off. Major names including American Telephone Eastman Kodak Johns Manville and American Can edged lower or mixed amid a tentative session with uneven turnover and speculation on earnings.
Washington officials describe an Arctic air route proposed by W Irving Glover, linking Alaska and the Bering Strait to Soviet Russia and China. A trans Atlantic service with U S mail lines could speed mail from Great Britain to China and Japan by about two weeks.
A brief note notes the audience awareness of radio transmission and technician expertise amid tensions within the music scene.
A boy develops a quick method to learn music by recording finger movements with arithmetic. He assigns one key as ones and numbers adjacent keys up or down. The technique uses a rising count on the ceale and a downward count for lowers, a substitute for standard musical notation.
SAR DIRGO California a 15 year old high school girl Mitchell runs her own amateur radio transmitting station with call letters WEOCHG. She built the outfit herself and aims to become a commercial radio operator after finishing science coursework as she shares with readers across the United States and Canada.
The story notes Prince George appears younger than his years with a boyish smile and pleasant voice. It mentions his health improving after a recent misfortune in a hunt and lists his favorite activities including dancing, swimming, and running with Wales. It also describes him attending business events with royal family members and his routine jogs near Buckingham Palace with Wales.
Beadle County commissioners at January meeting appointed F C Kuehn to draw plans and specs for a new North Huron highway shop with cost not to exceed 12000 dollars. J F Croes of Wessington was reappointed to fill the justice of the peace vacancy. Minnie B. Kemp approved as clerk in the county treasurer’s office.
Five young American adventurers join United States expedition led by George R Johnson to survey lost cities of Peru by air. Peru national government approves plan with conditions including in country development and printing, observer from Peruvian air corps, and two copies kept in the ministry of marine files. Robert Shippee of New York also participates. Johnson previously served two years as a lieutenant in the Peruvian naval air service.
Three Mitchell men John Wittetoe Orville Butts and Butts were bound over to Sanborn county circuit court on first degree robbery charges in connection with the Williams filling station rear robbery. Bonds set at 5900 each. Summings Pierre weak fragment references a funeral and a speech course for Huron business men ending with a partial note.
No definite action taken as city commission studies zoning, with minor changes expected next week. Residents J C Johnson and CG Doyle sought business district status for Dakota avenue west of Fifth Street North. request denied. State audit of city finances and departments approved with minor adjustments noted.
Armour & Company will open a skating rink on land south of the packing plant Friday night if ice conditions allow. Flooding around one block square continues after dyke repairs, expected to finish tomorrow. Two 3,000 watt flood lights provided by Northwestern Public Service Company will illuminate hockey games and other sports.
Aberdeen paper reports Judge Howard Babcock will hand down a decision next week on the Brown county audit regarding the balance of pay due to the McLaughlin Noreen company. Payment was stopped last fall after a court injunction, with the judge stressing the matter’s vital importance to taxpayers and the need for thorough consideration.
At the Rotary club luncheon stunt day featured a reduced price menu with hot dogs and apples. George Costain led the program while John Georgiades sang Greek and Turkish songs. Visiting Rotarian NE Steele from Sioux Falls attended.
Onida high school basketball tallies featured a double victory over Blunt. The Onida boys defeated Blunt 16 to 1 while the girls edged Blunt 11 to 14. Crawford and Johnson starred for Onida in the boys game and Travers led the girls with Howard shining for Blunt.
BIOUX FALLS Jan 21 A remarkable trip marks Mrs Sulla Trunes a local resident living within five miles of Sioux Falls visiting the city for the first time in forty years She is 72 and has long refused to leave the county farm or ride in a car since 10hk
Dr Ror Uteswe is guest of honor as William Reaves post of the American Legion hosts a Yale meeting. The fifth district leaders plan a pep talk on membership and benefits for disabled veterans. Commander Welter seeks full district participation with transport from Huron and asks Legionnaires to contact him for car space.
Mrs Norman E Bates 23 formerly Mary Shea of Platte South Dakota died at 7 45 am in Huron hospital after appendectomy and a second operation. She married Thanksgiving day last year and lived on the Orville Gorham farm near Huron. Survived by husband her parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Shea six brothers and one sister all of Platte. Funeral mass at Platte Catholic church with burial in Platte Catholic cemetery to be set later.
A half block of Artesian's business district was swept by fire, destroying Wise and Son furniture and undertaking, K and K general store, Johnson hotel, Paulson pool hall, and Silkenson movie theater. Firefighters from Howard battled flames since early morning. losses likely in thousands though exact figures unavailable. The bank on the block escaped. this marks Artesian's second major blaze in recent years as earlier row of buildings was replaced with brick structures.
Amateur theater fans packed the Huron college gymnasium to hear six language versions of Punishment, a one act melodrama by Prof. B S DuPoncet. The performance attempted Spanish Italian French English Esperanto and German renderings with the crowd following actions and dialogue despite limited understanding.
A local notice from Huron states W F Seivers was dismissed from the medical position. No further details provided on charges or reasons. The event occurred in Huron with no additional individuals named.
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