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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1939
Page
8
Miss Gill arrives to open a three day cooking school at the Huron Theatre tomorrow from 9 to 11 30 each morning. The event features a modern kitchen on stage, demonstrations, and free gifts including recipe leaflets and foods.
Billy Crosswait son of R L Crosswait Woonsocket won first prize in a radio contest. The prize is a fully paid trip to the New York World's Fair including transportation, hotel board and room, and a Pullman berth with stopovers en route from Rapid City.
Miss Dorothy McDowall spent the weekend with her parents Mr. and Mrs. A H McDowall and attended the Business and Professional Women's picnic.
New York relates a man who tried to trap pigeons for soup and lost more than ten dollars in the misadventure. Philadelphia covers a magistrate hearing a wife beating case with a wary vow from the couple. Oklahoma City notes a dairy driver using a second hand ambulance to deliver milk. Chicago reports a wife divorcing a boarder with an odd lease clause keeping him in the home until fall.
Wally Wallace and his orchestra will perform at the Huron Dance Pavilion this Wednesday marking the first Huron appearance. The band comes highly recommended by other pavilion managers and rival leaders for its dance band style akin to Paul Moorhead’s ensemble.
Moorhead's dance crowd favors a band styled like Wallace, prompting managers to book more groups of this genre. They aim to cater to local tastes by bringing in as many similar bands as possible to keep the dance floor busy.
A Woonsocket group including Mr and Mrs Oren Teiler and families along with the Reid and Witte clans and the Goll families from Mitchell plus Leona McDonald and Jean McDonald and families gathered at Riverside Park in Huron for a Sunday picnic honoring Mike McDonald of Berkeley California. William McDowall of Springfield spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs A H McDowall.
Plans are set for a band festival at Preston Lake city park on August 13 with Dell Rapids Flandreau and Lake Preston bands under Forrest Buchtell guest conductor from Chicago. Morning gathering, massed practice, and a grand concert in the evening are planned, expecting a large crowd.
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