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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1936
Page
16
The U S Department of Agriculture display at the state fair graphically shows wind erosion effects on Dakota plains. Exhibits cover beet production range management poultry nutrition wind action soil changes and rodent and disease control with models photographs and stereopticon slides.
The Commerce Department reveals a 1936 consumer market guide for South Dakota detailing retail sales at 106 million and wholesale at 73.8 million. It lists urban and rural per capita expenditures, population data, and income figures with regional comparisons and retail shares.
James Hiver Implement Company will demonstrate soil erosion methods using a disc cultivator and field cutter at the State Fair. Janes G Venables, fair secretary, announced plans. The company will use 15 acres in the southwest corner of the fair grounds for the demonstration site.
Gov Tom Berry serves as ex officio member of the State Board of Agriculture which directs the fair with four others. H O Otto of Huron is president C F Eggers of Sioux Falls is vice president and James G Venables of Huron is secretary. Governor Berry will attend Governor’s Day on Wednesday.
The Swiss federal council reversed Geneva’s expulsion order against eight Italian newspapermen who disrupted Emnezer Haile Selassie’s appearance before the League of Nations. The decision cited violations of Italy Switzerland treaties and upheld the reporters' appeals.
Louis Lacson, a St. Louis Park dairy farmer, was fined 30 dollars in Justice Court after being convicted of dragging a shepherd dog and a bovine dog harness. he faced possible jail time but received a ten day stay to appeal. He claimed he sought to stop the dog from chasing cats and suggested exhaust fumes may have killed the animal.
Auditors from a Minneapolis firm began an inquiry into Aberdeen city and school funds in the treasurer’s office. The probe, expected to last six weeks to six months, follows allegations of misappropriation by Marie Browst during a nine year tenure. About $1000 in cash and some city checks were found, ledgers not yet examined. The report also notes unrelated notes about perfumes and the Pony Express.
South Dakota Department of Veterans of Foreign Wars will move headquarters from Huron to the Dover Hotel in Denver for the September 13 to 19 national encampment. John Johnsen will lead the state’s largest delegation, plus Parker Post 2821 Zouave drill team and 1,000 soldiers from Fort Francis E. Warren Cheyenne will join the Denver parade marking a first outside-state Army display.
The South Dakota State Fair will feature daily concerts in the business district at 6 30 p m by the Huron Municipal Band directed by Hanis Christensen during State Fair week Monday through Thursday. Out of town bands from Watertown and Mitchell will also perform with Watertown on Thursday designated Wisetow n Day and Mitchell on Tuesday Mitchell Day. Afternoon shows will be in front of the grandstand with Ernie Young's Revue Passing Parade.
The article notes a parade featuring the second regular engineers from Fort Logan Colorado the nation’s guard the 157th infantry the 168th field artillery and the 4th tank company with arrangements for aerial maneuvers during the event.
Nebraska Kansas and the Dakotas have 63606 farm families approved for RA emergency drought grants. Ward says 4511 in Nebraska 17689 in Kansas 28685 in South Dakota and 21555 in North Dakota. Livestock loans certified to 4805 farmers regionwide with Kansas 790 Nebraska 360 South Dakota 31541 and North Dakota 2114. Emergency crop production loan requests rising as fall planting nears with 1336 fortified. 790 in Kansas 514 in Nebraska 4a in South Dakota and 43 in North Dakota. Floating islands on rivers are land held by root networks providing buoyancy.
South Dakota dairymen will showcase dairy products and processing machinery at the Dairy Building during the state fair. The exhibit includes prizes totaling 122 dollars across five classes, roving cups for top creamery butter exhibits, and demonstrations by manufacturers and dealers. Iowa State College’s Professor M Mortenson will judge, with E G Venables coordinating the event to boost interest in the dairying industry.
The Veterans Administration announced Olson Construction Company of Lincoln, Nebraska, submitted a bid of 202.48 dollars for additions to Betts Mountain Sanitarium at Hot Springs, South Dakota. The bid appeared as the lowest offer in the municipal bidding process.
Veterans officials reported WwW. C. Smith of Duluth Minnesota received a payment of 217,832 dollars and Henry C. of Sioux Falls South Dakota placed third with 10,367. Details on final determination or eligibility were not yet available.
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