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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1931
Page
11
Classified ad rates for The Evening Buroute in Huron November 1 include per word pricing, column inch costs, and a one year run with a cash rebate per column inch. Prepayment required. beware advance payments and deposits. do not pay money until proposition is investigated. report suspicious ads to the Classified Advertising Manager.
Various ads list rentals and sales including the F N Stewart residence at 82 Wisconsin, five room furnished homes, used cars, furniture, a boys bicycle, a chicken house, a base burner stove, and a library table. Legal notices announce a mortgage foreclosure in Beadle County and a court action in Huron. Community notes cover a young folk party at the Arteman home and local visits and travel by residents.
A fragmented page scene shows Miss Mary Harkness interrupted by a bellboy and a stranger in a lobby as Bowen watches. Mary is unsettled and wary of De Loma while a mystery man greets her, with Bowen offering a safe exit route as the scene heads toward a continuation.
A road crew of eight fresnos and a plow team have worked north of Danforth for days with Spring Lake township completion slated this week. Ed South rented A Stoudt's Haron farm for next year. The Ladies club met at B Windell's Thursday, sharing current events and card games. Calves and births headline local activity including Jake Heather delivering calves to Magness yards, five steer calves sent by Pete and Archie Geiver to Siont Falls, and a newborn son to Mr and Mrs Ed Weber near Danforth. Lyda Leonard and William Geiver visited Frank Maloney’s near Polo. George and William Ethanor families spent Sunday in Miller and Polo. Joe Machovie, wintering stock north of St Lawrence, visited Buffalo county friends over the weekend.
Carpenter Carl Ruthoff and family visited Water town on Monday while George Madsen Martin Lyndvold and Earl Arne attended a directors meeting at the Cooperative elevator in Raymond on Tuesday. Carl Kuthof shipped a carload of cattle to Sioux City last week. Mr and Mrs Earl Arce visited Watertown on Thursday. Ice George Madsen called in Huron on Saturday. Sylvia Wahl spent the weekend with Jene Payne at Hitchcock.
Broadland residents note a one week vacation for Broadland grade and high schools due to Thanksgiving. Local families visit relatives across nearby towns including Virgil, Huron, Dell Rapids, Miller, Fulda, and Spirit Lake as Mrs. Johnston returns from Minnesota and Iowa trips.
Real estate transfers listed with Beadle County Abstract and Title Co. and J O Purintun Abstracter show transactions across towns including Mason City Washington and Brookings. Names include W 3 Holshan L Holahan Thomas H Aitchison A L Anderson Add Fremont H Schwartz sheriff and others with properties in McMd ers Addition Lake Byron Noboth Noth Fred Kracht M Penney and more.
A fragmented notice lists transfers and parcels from multiple buyers and sellers including Mabel R. Ausman to G. Harvey Myd and Edward R. Peterson to Dagna E. Schaefer. It covers various lots and blocks in Bancroft Arlington Lake Preston and surrounding townships with county treasurer actions noted.
Springs Kiwanians in Wellington Springs elect George Whitney as president at a quarterly ladies night. New officers include vice president Richard J. Fitzpatrick treasurer Harry F. Jansen district trustee James J. Carson and directors Fred N. Dunham Clyde B. Price J. E. Robinson L. B. Ausman Aiden Cutler Ralph J. Cook and Albert F. Pinard. Secretary will be chosen by the board at the next meeting.
Bancroft will host a community chest relief program Friday at 8 from local talent in the hall. An informal serial games session will follow, and the two Ladies Aid societies will serve supper starting at 8 and continuing through the evening.
The Lake Preston civic club is hosting a series of benefit card parties at members’ homes with the public invited. Prizes and refreshments follow each evening, and the third event will be Thursday at Mrs Bert Keith’s home with Mrs Whipsley Mrs Davison and Mrs Fun assisting. Proceeds support civic projects in the city.
Miss Alvina Palmquist a University of South Dakota College of Music graduate assisted the University Symphony Orchestra in its first concert of the year in Slagle auditorium. The contralto after graduation earned two scholarships studied under Her bert Witherspoon and Graham Reed and sang as a soloist in Chicago with the Chicago Symphony prior to teaching a year in Idaho. She now teaches at Sioux Falls college.
State Auditor PIEABRE reports 18 008 warrants written in October the largest single-month total on record, surpassing the prior peak by about 2 004. The earlier high was June 1831 with 16 029 warrants written under June dates. October 1931 warrants totaled 3 768 919 dollars, up from September’s 2 302 767 and October 1930’s 3 523 357.
Pierre November 1 The South Dakota agriculture secretary Le Groth criticized federal reserve banks for inflating economy during World War I and the ensuing deflation. He alleged banks encouraged extended credit almost without limit and blamed them for extreme inflation. He noted agricultural prices fell in 1920 while regional banks profits averaged 160.7 percent.
Elvy Johnson, a Bible lecturer, opened a series at the Lutherart Church in Preston Lake. The plan runs through the week and covers 40 years of biblical history from Ada to Paul, illustrated with stereoptain slides.
Special bulletin reports missionary societies convening at Mrs. A B Custer’s home in Wolsey on Tuesday November 24 led by Mrs. Frank Heitland. Mrs. Harry Nelson to direct devotionals with lunch served by hostesses including Mesdames George Unbard Telman Dickens George Van Allen and F C Gerdon.
Osceola report notes Fred Dershied Ed Adamson Neiling Br and Everett Westerberg driving 32 head horses to Crocker for winter pasturing. Also thieves hit the Great Northern railroad house stealing two raincoats and a nearly new shearling cotta, with losses unclear.
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