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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1929
Page
5
Huron Radio Listeners League outlines its goal to survey all electrical appliances for interference and repair or filter upgrades. The plan seeks 200 members minimum, with a two dollar dues to fund a city wide service survey and prevent new interference.
Unsettled tonight and Wednesday with chances of showers and colder air. Sun rises at 5 08 a.m. and sets at 7 51 p.m. Hourly temps show 55 to 74 degrees through morning. South Dakota Minnesota and Iowa mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with some rain or showers and cooler conditions, near freezing in the northwest portion.
Road report by the Associated Press covers South Dakota cities with temperatures ranging from the mid forties to mid seventies. Sioux Falls shows 62 with 4 clear, Huron 58 and 66, Mitchell 52 and 76, Watertown 56 and 75, Yankton 55 and 74, Brookings 62 and 72. all report no precipitation and generally good to fair road conditions.
Mrs William Meath of Sioux Falls and Miss Marion Heath visit in Huron at Rostelle Beauty Shop. Mrs C Hi Turks and party from Sioux Falls guest with niece Miss Etna King. Local ads list loans, funerals, travel, and a church event with a May 15 time window.
A trained money of the Cole and Rob erty circus indirectly caused a fire that destroyed the wild animal side show tent in Redfield. A camel? circus attendant chased a escaped monkey while smoking a cigarette and the cigarette presumably fell into hay near elephants starting the blaze. Estimated loss is $800. show will continue as usual.
Assistant Secretary Lowman announced a summer plan uniting the prohibition service customs and coast guard to curb rum smuggling. Air patrols and river lake patrols will target smugglers while northern border enforcement rises with more agents and funds. A shift of winter southern forces to the north is planned as tourist traffic increases.
J B Nolan Hawarden fireman on the first train to cross the James River bridge into Huron on June 26, 1880, recalled in a Beadle County Historical Society talk. He recounts routes from Winona to Volga, the three week bridge wait, crossing with engineer Joe Shears and conductor Dick Rowland, and early Huron life including the Dakota House and first church built around 1882.
We thank friends and neighbors for sympathy and assistance at our recent bereavement. Names include A T I Churchill J Benjamin Schmoker Daniel W Churchill Irene H H Churchill William Hawke Cyril Hawke John Hawke Frank Francis and others.
A Sun Day gardener aged 1? claims a tie with Leonard Reed for first radishes of the year. Kettering, at 678 Third Street Southwest, submitted his harvest and lives with his son L. C. Wettering and family.
A fragment recalls a bridge on June 26 1880 that vanished save the speaker who was age 22, describing itself as the lone survivor and the “kid of the outfit.”
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