Visitors Increase At Homestake Mine Despite Slow Economy
Lead July 10 Advance of the tourist season shows more visitors at the Homestake gold mine though conditions remain sub normal. Guides report visitors from 33 states and several countries, with eastern South Dakota supplying the largest share. Guides, all Lead girls, conduct a mile and a half surface tour while explaining ore processing and gold extraction. funds not used for guides support charities.
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Homestake
Guide Bureau
South Dakota
Summer School For Rural Pastors Opens At State College
Brookings July 10 The fifth annual summer school for rural pastors has begun at South Dakota State College for a two week term. Conducted at the request of the rural life committee of the Congregational church, the course covers rural sociology psychology of religion rural leadership essentials of church singing rural church problems and recreation. Directed by the college rural sociology department. Belle Fourche July 10 Contractors finalize estimates for the John Burns memorial hospital to be erected here at about 30000 in cost. Financed by subscriptions and endowment the hospital is to be erected by fall.
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Brookings
South Dakota State College
Rural Life Committee
Congregational Church of the State
College Rural Sociology Department
Belle Fourche
John Burns Memorial Hospital
Old Prison To Mix Hopper Poison In Stanley County
FT PIERRE July 10 The old county jail has been transformed into a mixing plant as Stanley county farmers prepare poison mash to fight a grasshopper outbreak. County furnished materials are mixed in a cement mixer with six pounds arsenic replacing four to 10 pounds of bran and sawdust, yielding stronger poison and satisfactory kills. County agent Archie Joy cooperates with farmers in the control campaign.
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FT. Pierre
Stanley County
Archie Joy
South Dakota Dominates USD Summer Enrollment
Vermillion July 10 Three hundred ninety of the 430 students enrolled in the University of South Dakota summer session are from South Dakota communities. Eight states are represented and 390 South Dakotans come from 141 communities. Enrollment is over 42 percent higher than 1930 short term, says director A H Batson.
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Vermillion
University of South Dakota
South Dakota
A. H. Batson
Iowa
Nebraska
Wisconsin
North Dakotas
Ilinois
Texas
Pennsylvania
South
Batson
Young People To Meet At Yankton
The tenth annual Congregational Young People's assembly will be held at Yankton college July 18 to 25. Rev. George N. White of Chicago, associate secretary of the American Missionary Association, is the main speaker and instructor. Rev. Charles G. Murphy is director and Rev. H. H. Lindeman of Yankton is associate director.
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Yankton Yankton
Congregational Young People’s Assembly
Yankton College
George N. White
Chicago
American Missionary Association
Charles G. Murphy
Young People's Work
H. H. Lindeman
Yankton
Oil drilling to start near Sel den Fourche this week
D J Carter of Northwest Oil and Gas announces oil drilling near Oak Creek 16 miles west of Selden Fourche starting within days. A Baker Montana rig will be brought in, enabling 24 hour shifts as crews drill toward oil or granite. A second well to begin Camp Creek structure next month with a third site undecided. Over 16 000 acres leased by Northwest Oil and Gas and Minnesota Belle Fourche oil men. Geologists from large firms are surveying the area.
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Selle Fourche
Oak Creek
Here
D. J. Carter
Northwest Oil and Gas Company
Minnespolis
Baker
Montana
Camp Creek
Minneapolis Company
Corporation ‘of Minnesota
Belle Fourche Oil
Northwest Oil and Gaz Company
Gypsies make short stay in Rapid City
A Gypsy group touring Rapid City was warned by officers that their presence was not welcome. The party, believed linked to a larger band headed for the Black Hills to crown a queen, included two men and two women in an Oklahoma registered car. They left after requesting that local police notify other band members if they returned.
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Rapid City
Black Hills
Oklahoma
Sturgis Pastor Starts 26th Year of Service
Rev C D Erskine begins his 26th year as pastor of the Sturgis Presbyterian Church. This marks his first and only pastorate, reflecting a record of long sustained tenure in the Sturgis community.
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Sturgis
C. D. Erskine
Sturgis Presbyterian Church
Erskine
Local pastor reflects on decades of service in Fly anniversary
A pastor who came to Sturgis from Lake Forest College NL delivered his first sermon on the first Sunday in Fly in 1906. Except for 13 months as an army chaplain during World War I, he has served the local church continuously. In a recent anniversary sermon he recalled changes and improvements since he began his pastorate.
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Sturgis
Lake Forest College
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