Minnehaha Rates Biggest In S. D.
Pierre July 29 Frank D Kriebs state secretary of agriculture described Minnehaha county as South Dakota’s leader in population manufacturing and farming. He noted its top ranks in corn oats hogs poultry and fruit trees with 50,863 residents in 1930 and 467000 acres in farms. The county hosts 22 27 farmers 104 parochial schools and 4 colleges plus business colleges. Sioux Falls serves as the state’s top manufacturing wholesale hub with 200 firms and 1500 fruit trees bearing in the county.
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Pierre
Minnehaha County
South Dakota
Frank D. Kricks
Minnebah County
Kriebs
Sioux River
Minnesota Territory
South Dakota Territorial
Earley
Micnehaha County
Sioux Falls
Northwest
Kreibs
Dell Rapids
Secretary of Agriculture
Baltic
Colton
Egan
Chester
Hartford
Humbokk
Garretson
Texaco to Build $50,000 Station in Sioux Falls
Texaco Oil plans a new bulk gasoline station in Sioux Falls at a cost of 50000 dollars. A city commission grant and local permit are required. an engineer notes the project will bring newer equipment and improve local facilities.
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Texaco
Sioux Falls
Texaco Oil Company
Linux Falls
Redfield Kiwanis Guests For Watertown Meeting
Redfield Kiwanians entertain at a Watertown club meeting at Stony Point Lake Kampeska tonight. The program centers on the ladies with Miss Marian Abbott of Grand Forks North Dakota as guest, hosted by Redfield Watertown Kiwanians and district Kiwanis leader Dr. G Abbott's daughter Dal.
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Redfield Kiwanians
Watertown Watertown
Stony Paint
Lake Kampeska
Redfield and
Watertown
Mitchell Hospitals Guard Against Mixups
Mitchell officials say entellect hospitals will use triple precautions to prevent baby mixups. At St Joseph hospital newly born babies are marked with room numbers on a brace and the mother's name may be noted. The Methodist State hospital uses multiple tapes and a bed tag to ensure correct identification.
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Mitchell
Ady
St. Joseph Hospital
Stte Hospital
Select Site For Winner Post Office
The U.S. government seeks bids on sites for a proposed Federal building with August 20 as the deadline. Washington opens offers and an agent will inspect proposed locations and nearby properties to judge price reasonableness against recent local sales.
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Post
U.S
Washington
Department
Special Days Planned at USD Museum for Students
Vermillion July 30. Special days for tiny teachers and pupils at South Dakota schools will be arranged by the University of South Dakota Museum. W. G. Over, curator, says plans are not yet definite.
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South Dakota
University of South Dakota Museum
W. GB. Over
Liz
Over
Harvest Festival Free Lemonade Draws Heat Fueled Crowd
At the Harvest carnival in EBOWARD attendees drank 2.40 gallons of free lemonade over Friday and Saturday. The lemonade, provided by local businessmen and the Howard Amusement Company, cooled thirsty crowds as temperatures reached 100 and 120 degrees.
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Howard Amusement Company
Prayer and public fasting tamed South Dakota grasshoppers long ago
Pierre reports state historian Lawrence K Fox cites 1877 grasshopper proclamation by Governor John L. Pennington urging May 4 as a day of prayer and fasting. Wayside crosses near Jefferson and Elk Point served as prayer sites, as Pennington credited divine aid for a harvest later judged largest in history with no grasshopper damage.
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South Dakota
Fox
Jefferson
Elk Point
Spitwest
Omaha
Pennington
Volga Residents Sign For Guard Duty
In Brookings on July 2, Volga residents organize guard duty to curb burglaries and daylight robberies. More than 72 men join squads led by the night police. Banks report two near misses by suspected robbers, including a prelude to a Lake Preston holdup. Signals planned for rapid alert, with Brookings county and city help, and banks curb large cash on hand with $230 withdrawal by advance notice.
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Volga
Brookings
Lake Preston
Brookings County
Boy Injured In Peculiar Street Accident At Tulare
Tulare July 30 Special Herman Neitzel 12 suffered deep cuts to leg and arm when his trousers caught on a luggage carrier as he crossed a street. He gripped the baggage guard with both hands and held on until the car stopped, saving himself from being drawn under a wheel. He is the son of Albert Neitzel who lives two miles south of Tulare.
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Tulare
Hermann Weitzel
Bagrage
Herman
Albert Neitzel
Three Men Hurt When Car Tops and Burns Near Planking Ton
Delbert Bush of Mitchell with Elmer McCullough and James Wheeler of Vernon were injured when Bush’s car tipped into a ditch near Planking ton. The vehicle caught fire after the crash as Bush tried to avoid a parked car on the road to Playking ton.
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Burns Mitchell
Delbert Bush
Mitchell
Plankington
Bush
Elmer McCullough
Mitshell
James Wheeler
Vernon
Redfield Oil Station Under Construction At White Eagle
Work has begun on the White Eagle Oil corporation’s new seven thousand dollar super service station in Redfield. The facility will feature wash and greasing machines air lifts a ladies waiting room hot water car wash and is to be completed by late August. A prairie fire near Pierre threatened a Buckeye township schoolhouse but caused little damage to a large burned area.
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Redfield
White Eagle Oil Corporation
Otto Alexander
Pierre
Buckeye Township
University Wins Honors At Camp R.O.T.C. event honors
Vermillion July 30 Twenty five University of South Dakota ROTC cadets won first place for best platoon at the Port Crook Omaha camp. The group led by Sergeant Kilbourne also earned top rifle marksmanship and multiple individual recognitions among USD Nebraska Iowa and Creighton cadets. Race results and commissions followed.
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Vermillion
R.O.T.C
Port Crook
Omaha
University of South Dakota
F. R. Kilbourne
University of Nebraska
University of Iowa
Creighton University
Kilbourne
South Dakota
Nebraska
Joe Quelm
Fiatte
Joe Drakes
Ravina
Wesley Carter
Joe Qualm
Platte
Floyd Moses
Colome
Ralph Korgin
Tigh
Berton Root Madison
Irwin Hendren
Leoia
Norman Leer
Charles Mortill
Joe Boe
Presho
Reserve Corps
United States Army
Woman Burned In Kerosen e Blast At Home
Mrs Aleck Linchester poured kerosene into a cook stove and caused a kitchen fire. She and her sister Mrs Waldee Wieder were burned while neighbors and a passerby rushed them to Peabody Hospital Webster. Mrs Linchester was in serious condition and her mother was summoned from Aberdeen.
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Butler
Aleck Linchester
Peabody Hospital
Webster
George Cagle
Linchester
J. B. Enigberg
Aberdeen
Crop Yields Exceed Hopes Near Howard
Crop reporters in Howard say cutting of small grains is complete and yields are better than expected despite heat. Farmers note corn remains healthy and anticipate a rain soon to help corn recover and reach a favorable overall harvest. Local estimates center on improving farm prospects.
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Howard Howard
Iroquois Farmer Helped by Neighbors in Recovery
J M Hunt, a farmer near Iroquois, has been unable to work since last winter and is confined to bed. Neighbors, longtime residents west of town, and Iroquois business people gathered at the Hunt farm two or three evenings last week and shocked the grain, a neighborly act the Hunt family greatly appreciates.
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Troquois
J. M. Hunt
Iroquois
Hunt Farm
Hunt
Farm Barn Burned In Ashton Vicinity Fire Damages
Ashton July 30 Special Fire of unknown origin destroyed the large barn on W. Ho Holcomb farm eight miles north and east of Ashton. A granary and garage burned. Claude Frost who operates the farm and his son escaped with the car. stock saved. Fire danger due to extreme dryness. two fires Sunday near the city burned wheat on Manly Foster's farm and a nearby pasture.
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Ashton
W. Ho Holcomb
Claude Frost
Faua
Manly Foster
Burglar Fled After Child's Screams In Thompson Home
In Spearfish July 9 an attempted burglary at W J Thompson's residence ended when a flashlight flashed in his daughter's face and she screamed. The intruder fled to a kitchen trap door, into a cellar and out a back exit, while a car with two accomplices waited nearby. Thompson, who runs a filling station in the yard, says money taken after banking hours suggests knowledge of the theft.
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W. J. Thompson
Inaugurate Service Club Day at South Dakota Univ
Vermillion July 30. A Service Club Day will be held this fall at the University of South Dakota. Dr Herman Ge James says invitations will go to state service clubs to visit November 15. A football game vs North Dakota will be part of the program to showcase university facilities. Rotary Kiwanis Lions and Optimist clubs are among those invited.
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University of South Dakota
James
Rotary
Kiwanis, Lyons
Optimist Club
Seasonal Seeding Deemed Necessary In Drought Stricken South Dakota
Brookings July 36 The protracted Jong drought in eastern South Dakota highlights the need for seasonal seeding of early maturing crops. Dr A N Hume notes early varieties fare best with spring moisture, winter wheat shows slight advantage, and phosphorus is a limiting soil element in parts of the state. Fertility must be maintained by combining cropping systems with organic matter and gradual fertilizer use for lasting profitability.
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Brookings
South Dakota
A. N. Hume
Agronomy Department
State College
Hume
Huni
Livestock Should Have Cheap Grain
Brookings July 20 James W Wilson director of the state experiment station at Brookings and professor of animal husbandry advocates feeding wheat to livestock while wheat prices are low. He notes experiments show variable gains with lambs hogs and cattle and compares wheat to corn for fattening and pork production. He suggests marketing some wheat on the hoof if prices and pork returns stay favorable.
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Brookings
James W. Wilson
Wilson
South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station
Music Pupils Give Broadland Recital
In Broadland on Monday evening Miss Susie Thompson presented twelve music pupils at the M. E. church recital. Performers included Doris Toay Bartlett Dale Bartlett Esther Bischoff Geneva Houck Alton Luick Muriel Luick Weyne Luick Shirley Vollenweider June Vollenweider Willa Vollenweider Ruth Staubacher and Lorraine Vollenweider. Thompson closed with three numbers greatly enjoyed by all.
Beer Gardens Raided in Redfield. Booze Confiscated
Four Redfield beer gardens were raided by federal prohibition agents. Officers and several gallons of beer in quart bottles were confiscated and much of it destroyed. No charges have been filed yet, though federal charges are anticipated against the four establishments.
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Redfield
Juy 3
A. F. Schleber
School Boards Cannot Build Dormitories Opinion
Pierre July 30 A board of education in an independent district cannot erect a dormitory for pupils as no statute grants this power and it cannot be inferred from general building powers. The attorney general noted legislature would have to expressly grant authority. A separate opinion told Sheriff Milner peddlers must obtain a license regardless of product origin.
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Pierre
Board of Education
Attorney General's Office
E. C. Giffen
Fred Milner
Davison County Increases Hail Insurance Acres
County auditor report shows 29 000 plus acres insured against hail this year, up from 19 995 acres in 1925. Total premium 19 119.63, previous year 13 168. The rate per acre ranged from 45 to 51 cents.
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Davison
Mitchell
Davison County
Dorothy Stebbins
Rosebud Soap Factory Leads New South Dakota Industry
Pierre July 3 Development of pumice soap manufacture in Rosebud territory described by Frank D Kriebs South Dakota secretary of agriculture A new factory at Winner in Tripp county makes powdered soap with pumice or volcanic ash as base Supply of pumice near Winner several thousand yards in size South Dakota holds several million tons of pumice Pumice is cellular volcanic lava and pumicite from volcanic ash is similar in composition Mining yields a fine powder mixed with water and soap stock From palm and olive oil New electric machinery will speed production Final product is dry in brick oven cans range 24 ounces to 19 25 pounds A special dispenser will containers of finished product Used in Black Hills Bad Lands and Rosebud region rust may be valuable to South Dakota Approximately 62 percent of all four in Wisconsin is formed
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Pierre
Rosebud Territory
South Dakota
Frank D.kriebs
Agriculure
Winner
Tripp County
Kriehs
Secretary of Agriculture
Kyridis
Black Hills
Badlands
Kriebs
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