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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1931
Page
7
Market reports from Armour Stockyards Huron and Chicago show a largely steady hog market with mixed receipts. Top quotes reach around 6.90, with 180-200 pound hogs strong, while lighter weights and western offerings show varying gains and some through-billing movements.
Minneapolis May 15 sentiment mixed at close with May and June wheat unchanged, July higher, September higher. Cash wheat receipts heavier with modest demand. flax strong on light offerings. Cash corn demand better, oats and rye mixed. durum unsettled. Prices and prices by no.1 northern, amber durum and red durum shown for Minneapolis market.
Duluth reports a futures range for Friday with fair to mild conditions and highs near expected norms. Forecasters caution light winds and no precipitation expected as the city anticipates routine activity.
Sioux Falls and Mitchell reports show butterfat and eggs priced for door delivery with multiple categories for hens, leghorn stock, ducks, geese, and broilers. Chicago New York and Minneapolis markets note firm butter, steady eggs, and mixed poultry, with regional potato and wool quotations.
New York May 15 Prices in rails and major industrials edged lower early but then rallied, led by U S Steel near 1013 then above 163, American Can up and down around 100. The market ended weak with gains limited and total volume around 2.5 million shares as banks adjusted loans and bankers acceptances in a cautious money market.
Lois Keck and Vera LaCraft presented a carefully built recital in Aaron college chapel. Both students, pupils of Grace B. Finley and sophomores at Huron High School, displayed refined technique and expressive phrasing in Bach, Beethoven, Moczkowski, and MacDowell. The program showcased clean embellishments, solid pedaling, and notable poise, reflecting well on teacher and pupils.
Mayor EB T Gitchell endorsed the Yard and Garden contest sponsored by the Huron Park Board calling it worthwhile. Forty dollars in prizes will be awarded for summer yard and garden improvements with a May 20 entry deadline.
The document states I agree to hire only part of the work for improving my home grounds outside of help from members of my immediate family or neighbors. It outlines responsibilities and limits the scope of contractors engaged directly for specified tasks.
Members of the South Lakota Volunteer Tax conference will meet in Huron tomorrow at 10 a.m. on the Hotel Marvin Hughitt mezzanine to outline a two year plan for a fairer state tax burden. W. C. Lusk of Yankton, re elected chairman, will preside as six active members present their proposals for the program ahead of the state legislature. Several important committee appointments will be made at the close.
Lively stock table notes bids and asks across multiple firms including Cities Service Standard Gil Maciana First Bank Stock 1430 on Bancorporation with a closing summary for Minneapolis markets and related corporate names. Results include a broad mix of railroad oil and manufacturing firms and utilities with varied percentages and fractional values.
May 2 meeting in Miller and May 28 in De Smet mark the kickoff for a regional charity drive. Evening sessions begin at 8 30 except De Smet at 6 30 with Mr Der Kinderen outlining the plan. Additional town sessions and a Madison gathering are planned to map drives from Dell Rapids to Arlington by June 1 to judge support for routing changes.
Directors announce the agricultural finance corporation based in Watertown has absorbed the Missouri Valley Credit corporation of Sioux Falls. The merger makes the combined group the largest farm credit outfit in the district covering South Dakota Montana Wyoming Nebraska and Iowa with assets of 1.5 million dollars. The expanded service area includes the west river country and the firm rediscounts with federal intermediate credit banks after funding farmers for livestock and feeding.
The South Dakota conference of the Evangelical Church entered its third day in Milbank with Bishop George Edward Epp of Cleveland in charge. John E. Booth of Aberdeen was named secretary, and Raye E Long of Sioux Falls assistant secretary. Booth said pastors’ appointments would be announced Sunday night at the closing session. Bishop Epp led an open meeting with communion and spoke on missionary work in the Orient. Roy E. Stetler of Harrisburg, Pa., publishing house manager, was among today’s speakers.
Mitchell May 15 Dr Bearl A Roadman president of Dakota Wesleyan University announces downtown classes begin this term in Economics Business Administration and Speech. Night sessions will be held in the downtown music studio as demand grows with easing enrollment. A fall enrollment comparison shows a ten percent rise in unsettled students this year.
Dell Rapids residents protest plans to pave or repair the road from the north Minnehaha county line. The group from Dell Rapids visited Pierre to voice objections, arguing the route should be either paved or left as is. A South Dakota highway official announced grading and paving prep would begin this week.
In Rome on May 15 7 Pope Pius XII publishes Quadragesimo Anno extending Leo XI s Reum Novarum. He outlines an ample program to reform the economic system toward fair distribution of capital and labor and defends the right of workers to form associations for mutual aid while reaffirming private property principles.
Fifteen cars and one bus carry over 175 Huron high school musicians teachers and parents to Mitchell for a joint music festival with Madison and Mitchell high schools at the Cork Palace. The program includes vocal and instrumental acts with an ensemble chorus concert to close the day and a Corn Palace dance afterward. A. J. Lang Ids L Iverson and Lowell Alberts accompany the group.
Sioux Falls Citizens National Bank and Trust Co announces affiliation with First Bank Stock Corporation, led by W. E. Stevens. It becomes the 12th SD bank in the chain with 112 member banks across the northwest. The local bank, five years old, has $125,000 capital, $25,000 surplus, $20,000 undivided profits, and about $1.3 million in deposits.
Senator Claude Swanson of Virginia collapsed today in the senate office building as he was leaving a session of the war policies commission. He received medical attention and was reported in stable condition.
About 250 people attended a district gathering at the Royal Neighbors lodge in Huron yesterday. Grace McCurdy of Des Moines led the school of instruction at the hotel, with a banquet at the American Lutheran church and a second session at the hotel. Delegates from eleven towns plus visitors from Mitchell, Brookings and Carthage joined the event. Deputy Arla Huddleton of Wessington attended.
Redfield awarded to Booth & Gison of Sioux City for five blocks of paving at a total cost of 29497.50. The project uses six inch granite aggregate paving with steel mesh reinforcement and begins soon with completion targeted by late June.
A program of musical numbers led by Gott fried Sjoland will be presented at vesper hour Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the American Lutheran Churn Huron. Performers include Luella Young Catherine Schal ler Margaret Reyhl Adelle Babbitt and Gretchen Sauer Reyhl with Fran geline Schwartz and Gladys Meyers of Redfield also appearing. Mrs Schwartz will reprise a number from Elijan first heard in Mitchell. Miss Meyers recently returned from Minneapolis.
New York results show Herb Freeman 218 and Torren Renato Gardini 200 with noted times 98:13 and 14. August Bankert at 20 and Gina Garibaldi 28. Aly. Tommy Dreak at 34:31 in Greenwood Lake, N J. Boston match has Gus Sonnenberg 210 defeating George Zsrynoff 195, two of three falls with Carynoff 30, Sonnenberg 14:07 and 1:21. Nick Lu 240 of California threw Leo Hystt 215 in Devil, N Y at 21.00.
Classified notices include good Minnesota seed corn at 1.50 per bushel and Holstein bull for sale serviceable age. Also modern furnished light housekeeping with no sleeping room and local calls for De Smet and Huron area. Includes roofing service guarantee and repair ad.
Conrad B. Qisen of Minneapolis reports four years of near nervous and physical breakdown. He describes wakeful nights, indigestion after meals, frequent headaches, weight gain and renewed energy after using Sargon sold by Longstaff Drug Co.
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