New Writers Project Will List South Dakota Lakes Names
The South Dakota Writers' Project enlarges its Place Name series to cover about 6,000 items in nearly 700 pages. It will publish lakes and place names including Beadle County lakes such as Bonilla and Byron, with notes on origins and WPA built dams. Delivery is expected late August.
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South Dakota Writers’ Project
Beadie County
Bonilla Lake
Bonilla
WPA
Byron Lake
Huron
Beadle County
Byron Pay
Byo
Byron
Pederson
Pederson Lake
Wessington Springs
Peter O. Pederson
NOW SHE SHOPS CASH AND CARRY
Doan's Pills offer kidney relief for backache and fatigue. The ad claims many suffer nagging pains from tired kidneys and urges readers to use Doan's to clear waste from the blood.
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Nature
Quay
Doan
Sei
Happy Reef Asd
Tioan
It Isn’t Cool In Custer You Get Your Money Back
In Custer on July 31 the Chamber of Commerce offered to cover the full lodging bill of any traveler staying in town and finding the night warmer than 65 degrees as a gimmick during a heat wave. Secretary J F Broyles said the offer aims to prove Custer stays cool despite national heat reports.
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Custer
Black Hills
Chamber of Commerce
J. F. Broyles
U.S. Forest Service
Broyles
Water bodies and dams shaped by New Deal projects near Huron
The text lists several lakes formed or enhanced by government programs including Ravine Park Lake by the CWA at Huron, Round Lake near Wolsey, Staam’s Lake by the FERA near Carpenter, Stony Run Lake south of Huror, and Whiteside Lake near Wessington. It notes sizes, locations, and naming origins, with details on construction, planting, and stocking efforts.
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Ravine Park
Huron
CWA
City of Huron
Round Lake
Wolsey
Staam
FERA
Carpenter
Ed Staum
Stony Run Lake
Huror
Whiteside Lake
Wessington
WPA
High Wheat Yields Hit Apena Area
Mrs. Theodore Pederson Mrs. Pete Evenson Mrs. Ralph Chapman and Mrs. George Mook reside 15 miles west of Alpena. They visited Mrs. Eda Leighton and reported threshing underway with wheat yields up to 20 bushels per acre and serious infestations of Mormon crickets gray beetles and grasshoppers.
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Apena
Theodore Pederson
Pete Evenson
Ralph Chapman
George Mook
Alpena
Eda Leighton
Plans For Faith Sheep Show Gathers West River Leaders
FAITH July 31. Ziebach County rancher and Faith Sheep Show chair Tidball and Ted Butler of Meade County discuss the August 27 28 event. The third annual show, started in a Faith warehouse two years ago, will be held in a new barn housing 560 show lambs and seating 300. The show educates West River sheepmen and connects buyers from Eastern South Dakota and the Corn Belt with feeder lambs shipped here each fall.
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Faith
Val Tidball
Ziebach
Ted Butler
Meade County
West River Country
West River
South Dakota
Corn Belt
Oil Land Leased In Hyde County
Hyde County records show oil and gas leases totaling 37,570 acres filed since January 1. Leases, mostly by Barndall Oil Company of Tulsa and Kerr-Lynn Company of Oklahoma City, run ten years with drilling due within two years or rent due to keep the leases alive.
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Highmore
Hyde County
Office of Register of Deeds
Emma McLaughlin
Register of Deeds
Barndall Oil Company
Tulsa
Oklo
Kerr-Lynn Company
Oklahoma City
Banner
Union
Franklin
Illinois
Spring Lake
Washington
Douglas
Valley
William Hamilton
Lincoln
Bramhall
Holabird
van Order
Eagle
Chapelle
Dewey
Bicycle Club Huron Plans Hikes and Membership Drive
The Huron Social and Safety Bicycle Club held a weekly meeting at Wilson School. Girls will hike Friday at 3 30 from the Public Library with Anita Pickell as captain. Boys meet Thursday at the library with Billy Brandenburg as captain. New members welcome at the next Wilson School meeting August 3 as the club aims to join the National Bicycle Club.
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Bicycle Club
Huron Social and Safety Bicycle Club
Wilson School
Public Library
Anita Pickell
Billy Brandenburg
Wessington Springs lad in Philippine Air Corps unit
Wallace F. Churchill of Wessington Springs is a second lieutenant in the U S Army Air Corps stationed in the Philippines. He helps service and tie large twin engine bombers and is a 1937 Wessington Springs High School graduate who earned his commission at Kelly Field, Texas.
Hyde County real estate transfers by official abstractor
South Dakota records detail transfers in Hyde County including state to county parcels in section 21 township 113 range 72 and various deeds among individuals such as Myrtie Macomber to Edgar Macomber in section 26 township 115 range 73 Olietha Clefisch to Gunnard Bowman in section 5 township 114 range 72 and Florence Clefisch to Bowman in section 34 township 111 range 73 plus adjoining lot and addition descriptions and other notable deeds among Violet Berman Alpha C Pepper Swanson partnership and Ina Faxon Jones with properties in multiple sections and townships.
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State of
South Dakota
Hyde County
Myrtie Macomber
E' al
Edgar D. Macomber
Olietha Clefisch
Gunnard Bowman
Florence Clefisch
State of South Dakota
van Camp
Violet Berman
Alpha C. Pepper
Swanson Partnership
Charles G. Faxon
Ina Faxon Jones
Mundt Pushes Fast Action on Air Force Proposal
Representative Mundt of South Dakota urged the rules committee to grant quick floor action on his separate air force resolution. He argued that modernization and increased numbers of fighters require verification that the forces are organized efficiently. He was joined by Belter Randolph and Nichols, all urging favorable committee action.
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Washington
Mundt
South Dakota
Rules Committee
Munaz
Belter
New York
Randolph
West Virginia
Nichols
Oklahoma
Economist Urges Suitable Leases for South Dakota Farms
Brookings July 31 Special A State College extension economist George Anderson recommends written leases that divide shares by contributed value. He notes many leases are unwritten and warns they fail to enforce key terms. Types include crop share and crop-share cash, with sliding scale options for high risk areas. Forms are available at county extension offices.
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Brookings
George Anderson
State College Extension
South Dakota
Anderson
Aaron Nelson
State College Farm Management Department
College Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
U. & Department of Agriculture
Refills Whiskey Bottles Placed On Probation
DEADWOOD July 31. L. J. Crosby, Orient druggist, was placed on probation for 18 months after pleading guilty before Federal Judge A. Lee Wyman in district court to refilling used whiskey bottles. William Leedy of Armour pleaded guilty to sending obscene letters through the mails and was placed on probation for three years.
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Deadwood
L. J. Crosby
Orient Druggist
A. Lee Wyman
William Leedy
Armour
Builty
Dakota Wesleyan appoints Nauman as executive secretary
Dr Joseph H Edge president of Dakota Wesleyan University announces Dean 8 Nauman of Gettysburg as executive secretary of Friends of the Middle Border and art instructor for the coming year. Nauman attended Gettysburg public schools and Dakota Wesleyan, graduating in 1948. He is pursuing graduate work at the Chicago Art Institute and represents FMB in Chicago.
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Joseph H. Edge
Dakota Wesleyan University
Nauman
Gettysburg
Friends of the Middle Border
University of Town
Dakota Wesleyan
Chicago Art Istitute
FMB
Chicago
Family Reunion Held At Redfield Sunday
A Sunday family reunion in Redfield honored Mrs. Anna Bushong of Franklin Massachusetts and included A Scheller family from Gettysburg John Gull family from Massachusetts Hubert Bushong family from Tulare Eleanor Snyder Dee Frankhauser of Gettysburg and Henry Schrader of Athol. Mrs Bushong and John Gull then departed for Massachusetts. More than half the world’s population lives in Asia.
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Asia
Anderson Named To Aid Temmey
Sigurd Anderson of Webster Day County is named by Attorney General Leo A. Temmey as an assistant deputy industrial commissioner. He replaces Sterling H Clark of Sturgis who has joined Camp Robinson in Arkansas. Anderson, born in Norway, studied at the University of South Dakota and taught in Webster and Rapid City before law school. He has served two terms as state's attorney and will resign to accept the new post.
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Day County
Sterling Clark
Sturgis Pierre
Leo A. Temmey
Sigurd Anderson
Webster
Anderson
Sterling H Clark
Sturgis
Camp
Joseph T Robinson
Arkansas
Norway
United States
University of South Dakota
Rapid City
The
Univer
Young Republican
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Fortune Shoes
Tom Sawyer
Osborn
National Bicycle Club
Erastus Carnell
DWU
Redfield
Temmey
Arenes
Aacaroni Products
County Agricultural Conservation Committees
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Huron State Fair Grounds
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