May Weather Brought Record Highs Lows and Varied Rain
Statewide May featured abrupt temperature swings with multiple late-season highs of 100 degrees and the first subzero reading since records began. Rainfall was heavy in late May with 7.32 inches in Ardmore and widespread showers. sunshine was deficient especially in the east. Soil moisture improved only after heavy rains. winds and hail caused damage in some areas. Grain failed to sprout widely while gardens and crops faced dry soil and late seeding challenges.
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B. R. Laskowski
Academy
Belvidere
Ardmore
Ludlow
Cottonwood
Hot Springs
Custer
Sioux Falls
van Metre
Gettysburg
Oelrichs
Pollock
Timber Lake
McLaughlin
Wakpala
Mobridge
Wessington Springs
White Lake
Huron
Menno
Vermillion
Black Hills
Bist
Spink County
Clark County
Fall River County
Laskowski
Victory Gardens
VFW To Hold South Dakota Encampment June Thirteenth
Veterans of Foreign Wars of South Dakota meet at Canton June 13 to 16 for a streamlined department encampment with business sessions and instruction schools for post officers. Attending will be national adjutant R B Handy Jr from Kansas City and department leaders Erwin Holm Charles Dickinson Jr A L Forrette H Barnard F Diekman Paul Hobart and Herman Fisher.
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Aberdeen
Veterans of Foreign Wars of
South Dakota
Canton
Herman
Fisher
R. B. Handy, Jr
Kansas City
VFW
H. &. Barnard
Mitchell
State Maison
Erwin E. Holm
Viborg
Charles D. Dickinson,Jr
A. L. Forrette
Rapid City
F. H. Diekman
Buddy Poppy
Paul B. Hobart
Sioux Falls
Judge Advocate
Wolsey Woman Vera Cumming Elected by Grange
Vera Cumming of Wolsey was elected to a Grange post, Pomona of the State Grange and Pete Thue of Bryant were reelected to the executive committee. Officers held over for next year. Governor Sharpe spoke on postwar Missouri River development for flood control navigation power and irrigation, deemed feasible by the Army Engineers.
Adventists Report 23 Youth Societies in South Dakota
Elder M. H. Blunden outlined church charity activities at the State Fairgrounds. South Dakota hosts 23 Adventist young people societies with about 404 members, who have distributed 68 817 tracts and periodicals and supported army camps and USO libraries with art books and subscriptions.
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H.m.blunden
Seventh Day Adventists Publishing Department
Washington, D. C
State Fairgrounds
The
Adventist Church
South Dakota
State Fair Grounds
Taessonsey
Snd
Boca
Ventists Aso
USO
First Japanese Ancestry Chaplain Joins Army
Hawaii's first chaplain of Japanese ancestry Masao Yamada, 36, a Congregationalist minister, will enter the army as a first lieutenant in the chaplain corps. He says God and guns will win the war for the United Nations. American soldiers of Japanese ancestry are now in training at Camp Shelby Mississippi for combat duty.
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Army
Honolulu
T. H
Hawaii
Masao Yamada
United Nations
Army Chaplain Corps
Camp Shelby
Miss
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May
Beadle County
Northwest Finance Co
B. A. Kiser
Mgr
N. W. Sec. Bank
Nehi
H. L. Rudy
South Dako
Geenth Day Adventists
Wolsey
Grange
Adventists
Perriton Drug. Cay
Onborn
Dad
South Pacific
New Guinea
U.S.O
Red Cross
Great Northern Railway
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