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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1934
Page
4
The piece urges citizens and business leaders to push capable, high character men into legislative service. It notes many capable people abstain due to time and money costs, allowing less able individuals to dominate. It stresses public welfare requires sacrifice from potential legislators.
Puzzle clues mix with hints about a composer who produced the Siegfried trilogy at Bayreuth. The text references Liszt and Ching with direction toward a Bayreuth context, suggesting a Wagnerian lead linked to the Siegfried opera and its Bayreuth premieres.
South Dakota 4 H clubs will award prizes to outstanding girls through multiple groups led by H M Jones state club leader. The state champion earns a trip to the national club congress in Chicago and county winners receive medals funded by Kerr Glass. Past champions include Lil lie Rosé Riehtbauch and Valois Clemmens. State Fair board prizes include trips to the national congress for demonstration teams and health champions. 1984 honors go to new members as former winners are ineligible.
A 10 year old sparked an $800,000 blaze at the Illinois state arsenal in Springfield. The governor confirmed the confession and the boy awaits psychiatric evaluation in a detention home. The piece ponders adult responsibility and understanding in childhood behavior.
George N Peek is praised for ability yet faces a difficult challenge as America’s chief salesman of foreign goods. The piece questions Farm Administration changes and warns that exporting to Russia and Europe will be hard without favorable payment terms. It argues cuts in imports and policy shifts may be needed and expresses doubt about near term export gains.
The leading citizen and businessman D. J. Noble announces his candidacy for the state senate. A local Republican extols his entrance as a model for other counties to follow and to provide good governance on crucial questions facing the state.
Senate passage of the embargo bill would grant the president power to bar arms shipments to war ring nations. The piece argues such a law could have kept the United States out of World War I by limiting involvement and commerce. It frames the measure as a prudent step toward long term peace if used wisely.
A. L. Ford is chosen to lead the grasshopper war in South Dakota. A backed committee plans a statewide organizing drive to protect crops after millions of dollars in losses, urging rapid federal funding to start the campaign.
Sioux City Journal reports on Dr William J Mayo and Dr Charles Mayo endorsing a philosophy of economic life and social duty. They donated 500 to the University of Minnesota medical research fund, part of a 1.9 million endowment from 1915, arguing riches in private hands harm future generations and that surplus should return to the sick. They ensured family provision without a vast inherited fortune, aiming for their children to contribute value to society.
The Iowa general assembly has enacted a tax package projected to raise about 20 million dollars. It comprises individual net income tax, 22 percent corporate tax, and a 2 percent retail sales levy. Critics warn the plan shifts the burden to lower income households, with exemptions for very low earners. The Journal notes strong opposition to the income tax and sales tax, contending the measures press hardest on the economically strapped while acknowledging some broad fairness aims.
Hyde county grade pupils begin YCL contest season with local eliminations in schools next week. District contests occur March 23 across divisions, and the county finale is set for March 31 at Highmore. Grades one to six perform declamation, grades seven and eight present original essays on the topic My Heritage and the Futurea Trust.
Hyde county rural schools have taught the Palmer method this year with an awards program. Hague school in Van Older township led the list by completing writing tests and receiving Palmer buttons as the county’s first recipients.
The Jefferson Girl Reserves held a regular meeting Monday after school with nine members present. A short business session preceded sewing tie backs for curtains and pillows. Helen Zeller reported on the meeting.
Betty Bauman reports troop 6 opened with songs and planned 28 jitmey party for Friday. Patrol meetings occurred and one patrol selected the name Falling Star. They closed the gathering by singing Taps.
The window display by local Boy Scouts, formerly Naeve food shop, draws public interest for the annual scouting meeting next Monday. The exhibit features handicraft items, merit badge aids, official gear, and European articles showing how scouting is practiced abroad.
The Rosebud Young Citizens league delays six week unit across all subjects while finishing an exhibit and reviewing tests. Clare L. Hebron of Ross School says students await new subjects and wonder if they will like them as much as the completed work.
Two Ross school pupils participated in a Ladies Aid program at Rose Hill church on Wednesday night. Doris Meisenhelder read aloud and Vern Erickson sang two solos. Betty Meisenhelder reported the pupils enjoyed presenting their numbers. Miss Vera Smith teaches the Ross School.
Sheffield school installs a mailbox borrowed from LeRoy Pier for pupils to mail letters to the Evening Huronite Young Folks column. Students must have letters approved by teacher Miss Van before posting and one pupil is assigned to mail the letters periodically.
The Sakakewea troops met Tuesday at the Presbyterian church with Captain Miss Helen Buchanan opening at 7 30. Betty Martin led singing and plans for next Tuesday’s dinner with Sakakawea Troop 7 were announced. A reading from the Girl Scout Leader’s magazine highlighted national activities including a South Dakota State fair booth by Huron girls and camps abroad.
Betty Bates reports a Redfield Girl Scout social at Jear Lyons home Sunday night. Twenty four girls attended as Hanna Homstad the captain and her three lieutenants led the group. Green decorations and St Patrick day treats marked a cheerful gathering with a large lunch cleaned up by the troop.
The Broadland troop met at the schoolhouse Monday night with 20 absences. The business meeting was skipped as they practiced signaling and bandaging. Exercises were given and upon closure, reports were filed by Dale Biggerstaft.
Leona Rex reports on a social studies unit for fifth graders at Prairie Knoll school. The lesson identifies anthracite and bituminous coal as the two best types and notes these coals are found in Pennsylvania.
A fragmented readout lists multiple bake and confection recipes including Italian Fritters Butch Boiled Pancakes Pfeffermesses Spritz Chili Belgian Cookies Swiss Macaroon Lebkuchen and more. It outlines ingredients and general preparation steps with various measurements and hints for shaping batter, frying, or baking.
Combine the otter ingredients and then add them to the first mixture. Bake in a sheet, cool and cut into strips. Frost. Norwegian Cookies use pastry flour sugar butter eggs and almonds. Cream the sugar and butter, add the egg yolks extract and flour. Spread thin on baking sheet and sprinkle with almonds and sugar. Partial bake then cut into squares.
MITCHELL Mar 6 A teachers conference under the direction of D Weeks will be held on the Dakota Wesleyan campus Friday April 20 with an all day session and an evening concluding. The gathering aims to connect prospective teachers with the State Educational Association the State Department of Education the County Superintendent and the City Superintendent. College presidents and department heads along with county and city superintendents will attend. Each teacher training institution is urged to bring five or more upperclassmen who have definite teaching plans.
Dr and Mrs A A Jordan left Sunday for Rochester Minn for a week with the doctor taking a special course offered at this time Mrs Jordan will visit the clinic They are joined by Mrs J Lefler visiting her daughter Mrs Blair Bainer at Austin Minn and by Mr Frank Macso who entered the hospital for observation.
Twenty years ago in Huron a mixed batch of visitors and residents are noted. Ane mlle Frank Sauer of Aberdeen visits with his brother John A. Sauer. Miss Anna Van Bruni of St. Lawrence attends a Sweat Welsh Male Singers concert and visits local hosts. Mrs E. W. Hamlin of Broadland visits relatives. Thomas P. Fleming returns from a buying trip to New York Cleveland Chicago and the Twin Cities. Dr Feige of Woonsocket expected for a visit. Miss Anna Shirley of Madison S C departs after visiting brother Jd. Shirley on Nebraska street. William Waibel buys S J Sparks farm at auction. price 64 dollars per acre. Buck returns from Spirit Lake to attend his father’s funeral. L A Groves and bride return from their wedding trip via Denville. A will filed in Alameda county Cal court disposes of 3500 dollars.
The A club list for the first six weeks of the second semester is filed in the superintendent’s office. It names pupils from Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, McKinley, Junior High, Senior High and other schools who achieved at least 40 percent in four subjects, with four core subjects required at grade school. Notable names include Robert Gretton, Marietta Johnson, Irving Axelrad, Margaret Heifers, among many others from multiple city schools.
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