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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
9
Governor Bushfield recommended for appointment by President Roosevelt sixty four men to serve as appeal agents in the selective service program in South Dakota. Each agent will work with a local draft board and registrants in his community to decide cases whether to jail, exempt, rejected or defer. Most agents are ALUGTAeYS according to local sources.
After consulting district representatives of the oral government the state appeals board recommends appointing specific men as appeal agents in Central South Dakota counties. Beadle J R Crawford Huron Clark W C Brower Clark Faulk William Johnson Faulkton Hand Clifford Walsh Miller Hughes Karl Goldsmith Pierre Hyde Theodore Studt Highmore Jerauld Roland Cutler Wessington Springs Kingsbury Barry J Eegen De Smet Miner Charles Hanson Howardrd Potter Albert Houck Gettysburg Sanborn Harvey Asper Woonsocket Spink W H Beckman Redfield
Testimony to a House appropriations subcommittee says a deficiency bill includes 36000 to complete Mount Rushmore figures in South Dakota. Mount Rushmore Memorial Commission Secretary Russell Arundel notes further development depends on more appropriations and outlines existing and proposed costs for administration carving and an honorarium. Federal spending on the project from 1928 to June 30 totals 706155.97.
Mrs. Otto Freesen hosted a neighborhood shower for the recent bride Angeline Meyer Johnson. Guests presented many gifts. A wind storm in Fox Valley, N. J., spared only the insured farmhouse, the sole dwelling to carry tornado insurance.
Cambridge Massachusetts George F Snell Jr stalks deer with a self built crossbow modeled after a shotgun style black walnut stock features a 20 inch automobile spring and a billiard ball cocking device The bow uses 40 strands of sisal twine and fires nine inch bolts Snell a 19 year old Harvard student returned from New Brunswick with a wild game hunt and needed campus permission to bring his weapon into his room
Funeral services for Mrs. Jacob Zoller 79 were conducted at Samanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church Harrold with burial in Harrold cemetery. Born in South Russia in 1860 she came to the United States at fourteen and later settled near Yankton before moving to Harrold with her husband in 1918.
Verlin Gellhaus returned to Sheldon Iowa Tuesday morning after visiting at the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Erwin Gellhaus in Tulare since Saturday. Mr Gellhaus is employed at Sheldon.
Francis McNutt won the weekly coloring contest for the Blondie page and earned a ticket to the Huron Theatre. Other winners from Hur and nearby include Violet Pullman Charlotte McNutt Violet Ann Waldner Virginia Lee Waldner Jeanette Reilly Esther Erickson Betty Lou Johnson Phebjean Snedigar and Lilian Pullman. Ten prizes are awarded weekly to local children who color a page from the Saturday Evening Huronite. Entries must be at the office by 5 PM Wednesday and winners collect their tickets at the box office the show day. Cincinnati once was known as Losantivilie.
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