Epidemic Anthrax Strikes South Dakota Livestock
In 1937 South Dakota faces its worst anthrax outbreak with losses surpassing 200000 dollars in livestock alone. Dr Ben Anderson reports 1058 farms quarantined, 2393 cattle 17 horses 104 sheep and 224 hogs dead, urging state control and funding to curb future outbreaks. Five counties report major losses, and a SD Minnesota meeting is planned to discuss open stock traffic.
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Pierre
South Dakota
Ben Anderson
Atte
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Wate Department
Anderson
Bon Homme
Charles Mix
Hutchinson
Marshall
Yankton
Stave Livestock Board
Minnesota
State College Band to play at Huron convention
South Dakota Farmers Union delegates will hear the State College military band of 118 pieces directed by Prof. Carl Christensen. The band will march in the 1 p.m. parade, perform a short program at the college auditorium, and travel via route stops to spread word of Haha Day homecoming on December 23. Christensen has led the department for 38 years.
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Brookings
South Dakota Farmers’ ‘Union
Huron
State College Military Band
Carl Christensen
State College
Iand
Ats Huron
Christensen
American Association of Bandmasters
South Dakota
Af State College
Cast Christensen
South Dakota Fariices’ Union
Research Historian Visits At De Smet
Miss Agnes Curley, a historical research field supervisor, spent the past weekend in De Smet before departing Monday for Mobridge to headquarter while conducting similar studies across Campbell, Walworth, McPherson, and Brown counties. She has spent two years as a federal and state research writer and previously led the women's division under the FEFA in Kingsbury County.
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de Smet DE Smet
Agnes Curley
Clark
Deuel
Day
Grant
Marshal
Spink
Mobridge
Campbell
Walworth
McPherson
Brown
de Smet
Curley
FEFA
Kingsbury County
Six Sentenced By Federal Court In Pierre
John Evans 19 of Dayton Ohio jailed five years after pleading guilty to transporting a stolen car across state lines while held at Deadwood. Three youths from Cheyenne Indian Agency received two and a half years in St Anthony Training School. Edward J. Rock from Fort Madison got three years six months for theft of mail. Percy Crow of Crow Creek reservation received a ten year term for rape.
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Pierre
John Evans
Dayton
Deadwood
A. Lee Wyman
Yestery
Cheyenne ‘Indian Agency
St. Anthony
Vda
Kenneth Means
Alvin Rivers
Edward Quidor
Edward J. Rock
Fort Madison
Wendt
Percy Crow
Crow Creek Reservation
Highmore PEOs Guests At Miller and Birthdays
Special notes from Highmore report PEOs guests at Miller with reports on a Supreme Convention in St. Louis and a birthday gathering for George Voorhees featuring a pot luck. Other items note a Willow Lake garage conversion, a new Gamble store manager in Clark, and Aberdeen shoppers.
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Miller Miller
Highmore
A. K
Miller
W. G. Rednond
F. M. Matieson
Supreme Convention of the Sisterhood
St. Louis
Earl Spain
Grieg
South Dakota
Tex
Pred Greene
Huron
J. Bushfield
Hitchcock
George Voorhees
Voorhees
Lee Voorhees
Jim Voorhees
Iver’ Anderson
John Phillips
Charles Meyers
Lillie Hunt
Tulare
Carl Meyers
Minneapolis
Bill Zepp
Haron
Jewell Sims
Willow Lake
Leslie Hardy
Clark
Gamble
Hardy
L. F. Reynolds
Lake Preston Bay Boy Builds Tractor From Junk Heaps
Eighth grader Gordon Jones compiles a working tractor from discarded car parts and farm implements. He tests the machine by cutting grain, planting rye, and pulling a corn binder, seeder, and plows for his father Clyde Jones and neighbor Ed Wacker. The craft blends scrap components into a functional vehicle.
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Smith+Hughes
Gordon ‘Jones
Lake Preston
Jones
Clyde Jones
Ed Wacker
Community Chorus Presents Program at Willow Lake
The Men’s Community Chorus directed by Rev. A J Koopman performed 16 pieces and five solos in the school auditorium Tuesday. Guest Jenola Kramer offered humor. Koopman played violin and Ralph Smith trombone. J A Molumby played Moonlight Sonata. Vante Beckwith sang The Prayer Perfect. Invocation and benediction by Koopman.
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A. J. Koopman
Jenola Kramer
Rev. Koopman
Ralph Smith
J. A. Molumby
Vante Beckwith
Southern Farms No Competition From the South
Minnehaha County Agricultural Agent L. W. Harding reports after a tour of Texas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Georgia Tennessee and Kentucky that southern farming cannot compete with the Northwest. He says southern land is worn out erosion has damaged many areas and cotton growers rely on fertilizer for decent yields. He notes hog and...
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Sioum Falls
Agricultural Northwest
L. W. Harding
Minnehaha County
South Dakota
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Ternnessee
Kentucky
Harding
South
Southern cattle production cannot compete with northwest says Harding
Harding argued that cattle production in the south will never be a competitive factor for the northwest because southern producers cannot grow enough feed to raise cattle and hogs. He noted many farms are 3 million acres with three or four sharecroppers and many farmers do not raise chickens for their own use.
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South
Northwest
Harding
Beer Wholesaler's License Revoked in Pierre
In Pierre an incense of lone wholesale beer distributor was cancelled and Sioux City Brow sing Company ordered to show cause why its permit should not be revoked. Kenneth Merkel of Warfield Sales Company ordered to appear Oct 16 before Gendon Stout to show cause why Neemse for that company should not be revoked. Company charged with selling high point beer to a dealer authorized to den 3.2 beer.
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Jefferson
Gendon
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