Dreams of Money and Freedom in Onset of Service
The speaker notes that gods mock plans, while money signifies freedom, yet long years of service are required. If compensation is not found in service, luck evades. Riches and youth rarely align.
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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1931
Page
4
The speaker notes that gods mock plans, while money signifies freedom, yet long years of service are required. If compensation is not found in service, luck evades. Riches and youth rarely align.
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The Aberdeen News urges a statewide program to conserve rainfall and build reservoirs, paired with extensive tree planting. It argues winds and heat worsen without water, cites drought-prone ranch and farm areas, favors artificial lakes fed by springs or wells, and calls for legislative and public action to support the effort.
A 15-year-old girl sues for a share of New York’s $50,000,000 Wendel estate, lamenting she is not younger to receive wealth. The piece muses on why people chase riches, warns against “get rich quick” schemes, and notes youth’s hunger for instant fortune vs lasting value.
During Fire Prevention week citizens are urged to memorize ten simple commandments to reduce fire loss. The rules warn against rubbish buildup, hot ashes in wooden containers, inflammable liquids near flames, dirty flues, defective wiring, oily rags, discarded lighted cigarette butts, kerosene use to kindle fires, unattended bonfires, and children playing with matches.
In Lancashire, England, textile workers, famed for fairness, faced Gandhi's planned address with warnings of lynching. His Indian boycott moves lowered spirits and left many jobless for months, yet workers later cheered him. Civil War era ties show workers favored the Union and opposed slavery, despite British upper class backing the Confederacy.
The Christian Science Monitor notes welcome sympathy from Japan toward League of Nations and United States in Manchuria events. It argues outside mediation risks domestic divisions in Japan yet urges Nanking and Tokyo to confer, stressing need for China and Japan to understand and avoid further delay while world powers seek a calm path to settlement.
In Rapid City Journal commentary, varying voices dispute whether a heavy snow year is imminent, with forecasts ranging from more snow than seen in four decades to prolonged abnormal conditions. The piece urges optimism, noting potential moisture, crops, and prices, while reflecting on political commentary and party leadership.
Mary Kate Gillihan recalls the Edgerton Kansas 4 H club organized in 1926 with five members. The group learned sewing baking and cooking through demonstrations biweekly meetings and book samples funded by the home agent. They exhibit at the county fair placing well and host a summer picnic near Olathe. The club claims to be the largest in Johnson County and a member commends riding five and a half miles to meetings daily praising 4 H work.
Lorene Bothwell of Wessington Hills shares a three year 4-H record highlighting five years of activity. She details first year canning with 90 quarts, sewing across years, dairy foods, and multiple county and state awards. She emphasizes leadership roles and thanks Miss Sara L. Dewing and Mrs. Mable Crossman.
Ralph Comstock of Spring Valley Fillmore County speaks on the 4-H club work. He says it educates on farm lines teaches success requires understanding, earns money for schooling, fosters good sportsmanship, provides worthwhile friends, and trains cooperation for future professions.
The top South Dakota dairy Judging and demonstration 4-H groups will travel to St Louis Missouri on October 9 to compete at the National Dairy Exposition. Team members include Jay Salisbury Johnny Reaves and Goldwyn Wolfe with additional demonstrators from Hamlin Brown and Beadle counties. They will return October 16 after their first national exposure.
Sacajawea Girl Scouts held a meeting with 34 scouts present. An attendance contest runs until January 1 with two sides led by Doris Peterson and Joyce Vanderstein. Losing side hosts a party for winners. absences require excused slips.
Nine Alpena Boy Scouts and Scoutmaster Rex Jones attended the court of honor at Haro this week. Merit badges awarded included Lawrence Wales in machinery signaling and conservation, Wenton Siedschlow in carpentry conservation handicraft, Calvin Wahl in scholarship, Ernest Washburn Amandus Aisenbrey and Clair Crawford in public health, Paul Tebay in handicraft, Delbert Lehr and Clarence Tevedahl in first class, Ray mond Greenhoff in second base. Jones received badges in shore the ship carpentry civics and photography and became a Star Scout.
Highmore Boy Scouts prepared a winter program focusing on rope demonstrations. They have chosen the Honnaire method of learning and are gauging boys preferences to decide which activities will be undertaken.
Fragmentary report mentions Norman Mer Douglas Tayter and West Cubs with Liestremn, plus Wolf culz Spurs and Highmore Girls Plan Welfare Group Work. References an alive memorial service for Mrs. RE Cone and a welfare group event. The legible items hint at a local sports and community notices page with unclear specifics.
South Dakota politics show a lull as relief plans and hunting season dominate talk. Prominent Republicans M Q Sharpe Gladys Pyle and William Dunn are floated on a fusion ticket for senate congress and governor respectively. Governor Green remains silent on relief and focuses on federal loan policy while maneuvering appointments to state boards and parks posts.
Twenty years ago today in Huron a flurry of travel notes and visits appeared. Mrs August Baum left for a visit with relatives and friends at Cavour Troqnois Alec Urquhart and Donald Montgomery left for Virgil in Montgomerys auto stalled by heavy snow. Other items note visits to Lake Preston Coleman Virgil Pomeroy Lake Byron duck hunting and a South Dakota Presbytery meeting. Also mentioned are travel to St Charles Ashton and various relatives and friends visiting.
More than 500 farmers in Butte County have received blanks prepared by the state central relief committee on feed loans and fuel requirements. The campaign aims to assess needs and streamline assistance programs for agricultural households.
Sioux Falls October meeting announced by the Department of South Dakota United Spanish War Veterans in conjunction with Tonas 2 Lien Camp No 5. A public gathering set for First Methodist Church at Spring and Twelfth streets on Sunday evening. W. Coursey, Mitchell, the department commander, to deliver the main address. Hon. C. A. Christopherson invited to speak. Walter Coalidile named staff officer to oversee arrangements.
About a hundred friends gathered at the Methodist Parlor on Tuesday evening to bid farewell to the 4 G Hike Meier family. The event reflected community ties as relatives and neighbors said their goodbyes amid somber reflections and shared memories.
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