Productive Soil and Conservation Efforts Urged
The Graettinger Times discusses soil erosion risks and the need for a nationwide soil conservation program. It emphasizes a cooperative effort among urban residents and farmers, outlines key practices, and cites regional erosion data. Also reported are local incidents including the defiance veteran burial, a patching cement accident injuring a Winterset youth, and a Rock River shooting incident resulting in a hip wound to a girl.
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Midwest
North Africa
Mesopotamia
Palestine
rans-Jordan
United States
H. H. Bennett
United States Soil Conservation Servicer
Bennett
Soil Conservation District
Embezzlement Charge Follows False Robbery Claim at Marathon
A 19 year old Wayne Butter, a filling station attendant, claimed a robber struck him and stole $14. Sheriff notes no injuries or evidence of a robbery. Butter was charged with embezzlement after close questioning revealed inconsistencies in his story. The Times also reprints a Prince Albert Herald item dated June 18 about a Rain Dance ceremony by 400 Indigenous people in northern Saskatchewan, seeking summer rains for crops and pastures.
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Marathon
Wayne Butter
Butter
Times
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Rain Dance Draws Round Plains Indians near Prince Albert
Indian families from Round Plains reserve gather at a 30 to 40 acre camp on the Roumd Lake road 10 miles northwest of Prince Albert. The event includes a rain dance, a duck dance, games, poker, and an ice cream stand as visitors mingle with Cree and Sioux groups from File Hills to Battleford. Henry Twobear serves as host while elders recount the 1876 Saskatchewan arrival and the ongoing rain ceremony expected to bring rain.
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Round Plains
Prince Albert
Roumd Lake
Shell River
Prince Albertans
Henry Twobear
File Hills
Regina
Douehwond
Watrous
Sturgeon Lake
New Reserve
Mistawasis
Duck Lake
Battoche
Battleford
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Dorothy DeJong
C. O. Wikert
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