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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1942
Page
10
A wartime newspaper item notes women's vanity extends to cooking and meal quality, urging frugal purchases at C. P. S. and Colusie shops. It promotes kraut making at nine eight cents per hundred pounds, sacks for storage, and upcoming apple and grapefruit arrivals with prices for various varieties. It emphasizes daily fruit consumption and practical wartime shopping cues.
Ad promotes Gold Medal Oats at 23 cents per two and a half pound bag with a free full sized dinner plate in each package. Also mentions eight ounce imitation vanilla bottles at a price of six cents each. Interesting mix of breakfast oats offer and kitchen items with small gift incentives.
Advertisement notes price points for Our Family Catsup in 14 ounce bottles set at 13e per bottle. Rich creamy Peanut Butter offered for baking and other uses with large two pound jars at 3e per jar. Honey pairs with biscuits or toast and five pound pails priced at 79 per pail for Friday and Saturday.
Ninety four 4 H club members leaders and parents attended the banquet at the Methodist Church in Huron last Saturday night. Certificates were presented to leaders for 150 club members. Eleven special awards were given to boys and girls for outstanding work. Gold pins went to Lois Vitztse for county champion beef poultry colt girls record and home life. Dale Hedlund earned a gold medal for county meat animal winter. Joyce Hamilton received the WNAX graduating club member award. Silver pins were awarded to Charlotte Gleason John Rudy and Donald Steuerwald for second place in state poultry judging. Wilfred Steuerwald served as toast master and Frank Heitland played piano and led singing. Jean Townsley sang a soprano solo Donald Steuerwald a baritone solo. Tyrus Thompson state club leader and Mrs. Thompson attended and spoke on the program. Miss Neff and Mr. Ladd presented certificates and awards.
Delma Newland writes that Pleasant Hill School has decorated for Halloween with pumpkins containing squirrels, jointed cats on windows, and third grade bats. Seventh graders created a calendar featuring a witch with two lit tle dwarfs at the bottom, while other students made Halloween posters and black cats.
A rhythm band formed at Esmond School last week with Schubert’s Military March performed. The Friday meeting discussed hobbies while Miss Timmy showcased woodcraft items yarn rug and a puppet. Vera Nelson and Philip Heaviland help with game and lunch committees as Halloween plans proceed. Fifth and sixth graders invited to the party. geography covers Holland and a Dutch project. Faculty notes include language stories from fifth and sixth grades.
Marvin Wagner reports Sunnyside School pupils have prepared for a Halloween program tonight. They hung orange and black crepe paper decor, and Grace Johnston collected 15 colored balloons for use. Students practiced while Oxpha Doll and Vernon Kahre were absent with colds. The school opened at 10 and dismisses at 5.
Fritzsche School in Nancy Township No 3 hosts a Halloween program on October 22 featuring the play It's a Witch plus bingo popcorn and other games and foods. Teacher Mrs Dorothy Nesfield of Huron is listed. Public invited.
Valley School No 2 pupils collected 2150 pounds of scrap and earned 6.15 dollars from selling it. The report notes grade studies in art animals mammals arithmetic and health while Miss Baum received patriotic posters and a defense stamp book for pupils Betty Jean Walter among others.
Shirley Bischoff of Fairfield School No.3 taught by Miss E Johnston says the verse choir meets twice weekly and has memorized four poems Sneezing The Milkman Horse The Squaw Dance Shoes and Stockings and A Goblin Lives Our House. In singing held three times weekly pupils memorized Our Trip Hail South Dakota Little Jack Horner Little Tommy Tinker and America.
Lois Smith of Morrill School writes that six weeks tests were taken. Friday Miss Jeffers handed report cards and surprised pupils with halloween suckers. Geraldine Morrill Dorothy Kutzler and Gerald Kutzler were ill with mumps. Monday Miss Jeffers found mice had eaten parts of reports and chewed corners. The mice ate their suckers, prompting another treat Tuesday.
Pupils of West 22nd Street School display halloween pictures in class with Miss Lovett supervising. Older students made posters. prize winners include Patricia Carpenter Clinton Moller Phyllis Foresman Edward Bremner and Jim my Miedema who earned ten cent Defense Stamps for good grades. Absent so far this six weeks are Albert and Fay Besma. November visitors day planned to display fair work and hobbies.
Esmond October 29 special report lists six weeks honor roll names Richard Wiles Bonn Davis Leonard Lorenz Betty Reether Dale Raether Lois Timm with no absences or tardies noted. Dale Raether achieved a perfect spelling record for the period.
Pupils at Rounds School are busy making Halloween pictures and posters for a party. Second graders work on a Mother Goose booklet for reading. Third and fourth grades study living things in science and geography, while the sixth grade continues their work.
Readable lines describe Fairfield pupils preparing to attend an event, with a garbled header and unclear subtext. The fragment mentions Jeanette England Bevelosed and hints at seating arrangements and "armed" engines, suggesting a misscanned item.
A Saturday afternoon shower in Bonilla Town Hall honored the recent bride Mrs. Verlin Horn formerly Dorothy Nesfield. A lunch followed the gift opening. Out of town guests included Mrs. Wendell Phillips, Mrs. Harold Horn and children of Huron, Mrs. Ra Wilson and children of Whiteside, and Virginia Cummings and Connie Coop of Wessington.
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