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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1931
Page
6
Social events by Margaret Blystone report church and lodge gatherings with notes on DS activities. Meetings of Labor Temples divisions KP hall K P lodge and Odd Fellows night, plus Gem and missionary society reports, guest luncheons and bridge games, and a friendly tea honoring Mrs Lloyd.
Local notices report Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Flanagan and two children leaving Milwaukee by car after a week with Earl Flanagan at 1245 Wisconsin Ave SW. Listings mention summer activities including exclusive after 11 pm night swimming at West Park Pool with lifeguard, and various temp departures for conferences, trips to Fremont, Buena Vista, and the Black Hills. Several guests from Madison and Minneapolis visit Huron, with others planning drives and short visits.
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Carlson and family expect to depart tomorrow for Mitchell Minnesota for the weekend. Mrs. Carlson will attend the state conference of Standard Bearers of the Methodist church where she has charge of the music. Mim Adeen Carlson and Evelyn Foster will represent respective Standard Bearers groups. They will visit with Mrs. Carlson's sister Mira Rush in Mitchell after the conference.
Radio broadcast listings during the Fourth of July period outline nationwide unit hookups on WEAF WJZ NBC and other stations. Notable programs include Paul Doumer address cancellation due to world events, Kate Smith Dennis King and arch broadcasts from WABC CBS, and concerts by Leo Reisman George Olsen and Paul Whiteman.
Lake Preston will be quiet on the Fourth of July with no formal celebration. The tourist park will host smaller family picnics and the sanitary pool will stay open for public use. The Max Neilson grove near Preston hosts a formal celebration with State Senator Emil Loriks as speaker.
Special from Conde notes Miss Mabel Rohr of Onaka and Glen Clark of Crandall united in marriage at Faulkion Tuesday. They will reside in Crandall where Clark is manager of the Eagle elevator. Mrs Clark is well known here and previously worked at Hewitts.
Workers on the 64 mile Federal Highway 14 West project near Huron will receive a double holiday by taking a rest after last Sunday. By tonight a mile and three quarters of concrete strip will be finished and after a two day vacation paving crews will resume Monday with fast progress to finish by early September. M. J. Kammerer, superintendent, notes early machine delays but expects completion by mid August as per contract. Less than a mile of grading remains, with crews focusing on the Wetrick cutoff to remove a sharp turn near the State Fair grounds.
Large Huron crowd plans Fourth of July events at West Park pool tonight starting at 7 with a pageant titled Downfall of Davy Jones from How Swimming Grew Up. The program features water safety, canoe demonstrations, post pageant swimming and diving contests for men women and children with prizes from local merchants and judges John Bangerter Ward Bell Roy Tredway. Awards include fishing rods bathing suits cameras and jewelry. Bacteriologists note honey antiseptic properties.
South Dakota travelers will find main roads generally good with maintenance slowed by dry spells. Eastern areas benefited from rain aiding graveled routes, while western sections in the Black Hills report dusty corrugated highways. Detours are common due to ongoing construction.
Aberdeen July 3. Northwest delegates to the Elks grand lodge reunion at Seattle July 6 to 11 will assemble Saturday morning for the trip west. A Milwaukee railroad special train will carry 150 lodge representatives from North and South Dakota Minnesota and Wisconsin. Delegates from North and South Dakota will join the group here.
Unsettled conditions with possible showers tonight and Saturday. Temperatures vary with no clear direction. Precipitation totals include month to date and year to date from nearby stations such as Bismarck. Sunrise at 4 55 a m and sunset later in the day.
Partly cloudy forecasts across South Dakota Iowa and Minnesota. Light local showers expected in western and northern areas tonight or Saturday. Cooler air in western sections of South Dakota and Minnesota. Iowa sees partly cloudy skies with rising temperatures in the northwest tonight and Saturday.
Mitchell shows 65 with a high of 89 and low 58 none precip and roads good. Watertown 67 high 86 low 58 no precip. Yankton 69 high 38 with unclear low and no precip. Brookings 72 high 83 low 57 no precip. Sioux Falls 75 high 85 low 55 no precip. Aberdeen 67 high 88 low 61 no precip. Rapid City 7 with high 90 and low 56 no precip roads good and clear. Pierre 70 high 91 low 68 no precip.
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