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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1935
Page
6
A busy slate of social events fills the Huron area with lodge meetings, bridge nights, dinners, and showers. The schedule lists Montana gatherings, Masonic Temple and Labor Temple meets, a Clifford-era toast, and wedding announcements including Alta Leonard and L J Carey, with prize awards throughout club nights.
Springfield Illinois legislature enacted a law raising the sales tax from two to three percent to generate 3,000,000 monthly for relief funds sought by federal authorities. The emergency clause was dropped delaying effect to July 1, leaving immediate relief to federal aid. State officials expected federal aid soon to cover remaining expenses this month as Governor Horner planned talks in Washington or Cleveland.
The Campus Players stage The Brat tonight at 8:15 in the college auditorium, a three act Maud Fulton comedy about a New York east side girl who disrupts the Forrester family. Herbert Stahl leads as Mac Forrester with Brownell Sedam as the brat and Vincent Antle as Steve. New cast members join Betty Cool and others as director Esther L. Mace guides the performance with tickets at the door or from Kiwanis members.
Funeral services were held here for Dr Carl Jones former Huronian who died Monday in Grand Forks North Dakota. The coroner confirmed suicide as the cause. Jones practiced dentistry here for many years leaving for Minneapolis ten years ago and later moving to North Dakota. His wife, also a former Huronian, died less than a year ago. Services were at Kinyon chapel with Rev F E Morrison in charge Burial beside his parents at Riverside.
Paris May 23 Sixteen tons of gold moved by special train to Le Havre to board the liner Washington. The shipment brings U S gold shipments in two days to 50 million dollars. The train carried two guarded baggage cars and a single passenger pullman to meet the liner at the pier.
In Geneva on May 27 the League of Nations Council voted unanimously to invite Japan to remain on the advisory commission of opium and narcotics and on the child welfare committee, though Japan is no longer a member of the league.
Local items include births, travels, and social notices in Huron. A son born to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Schoenfield at Beach Avenue SE. Mrs. Paul Christensen and son head to Omaha for her husband’s orchestra year at Hotel Paxton. Lyle Francis visits from Chicago while on vacation. Miss Anna Zieske visits from Minnesota en route to Spokane. Claudette Colbert film Private Worlds opens at Huron Theatre. A Budweiser promotion runs in ads and a fishing gear deal appears from Gamble Stores.
New York May 23 Eleven South Dakota high school pupils earned honors in the national scholastic examination. Notable names include Alberta Bensend of Carthage and Eylyn Smedstad of Roslyn with top scores such as 89 and 97. Other listed pupils: Richard Potter Andover 72 Eugene Howard Bhint 79 Robert Graff Brandon 74 Vivian Thurn Buffalo 85 Pershing Olson Lily 88 Mary Beth Mackay Madison 18 Irene Nelles Madison 58 Magdalene Bohlsen Milbank 80 Herbert Evans Rapid City 78.
We express sincere thanks for the kindness of our lands neighbors and Orders during the WDness and at the time of the death of our wife and sister. The words of comfort the kind deeds and floral offerings helped lessen our sorrow. Henry Ray Mrs Elge Hopper and family 0 8 Toland and family Fee oe family e BE Me Y J Ray and family G G Ray.
Five Works Progress districts will operate in South Dakota with Aberdeen Watertown Sioux Falls Pierre and Rapid City as district headquarters. M A Kennedy named state Works Progress administrator to lead plans guided by Governor Tom Berry and the state planning board. Guy H Harvey arrived to assist Kennedy and Berry with program proposals.
Six men were killed and 44 injured in a freak air crash at the Canton military aviation field Tuesday. One of three planes in formation flew too low and struck a building. The pilot died instantly and 45 soldiers listening to a nature lecture were hurt.
Lucien Barclay Moody, a Huron native and West Point graduate, was appointed colonel in the army ordnance department. Senate confirmation came May 1. Moody, son of the late Dr. George W. Moody and Virginia B. Moody, rose through the department and is tied to a prominent Huron lineage with no relatives remaining there.
Léo A. Termimey announced special committees to run Memorial Day services in Huron. The order of march committee is led by Wayne Wilson, commander of the local post, with details arranged by named officers and volunteers.
Y F W and American Legion leaders plan a memorial observance with a ceremonial reading of Lincoln and Logan, musical selections by allied auxiliaries, a grave decoration for the Unknown Soldier, and a guard of honor by Spanish American War Veterans and the National Guard. The program includes Girl Scouts participation, buglers, and car arrangements for veterans and supporters.
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