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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1909
Page
8
The 1903 move to form Independent District No 52 in Dever county led to petitions, a failed injunction, and a new plan resulting in the 1904 creation of the first centralized school district in South Dakota. The plan improved schooling, teacher quality, and transportation while raising taxes modestly to fund expanded nine month terms and bonds.
Noli and Co incorporate to form the Huron Marble and Granite Works with 310000 capital. Officers include So PL Malone president J C McAdam vice president George Fullenweider treasurer and J P Cole secretary and manager. A 254 by 100 foot site on the North Western track will host a new plant with marble polishing surfacing machinery air compressor pneumatic tubes and an overhead traveling derrick powered by a 15 horsepower electric motor. The firm aims to be one of the west’s largest marble and granite manufacturers and seeks local support to develop the industrial center. F A Whitfield of Delhert left for resas Tuesday morning.
A joint Beadle County teachers and officers meeting convened in the college chapel at 9 am with Prof. J. W. Smith presiding. Miss Zula Smith elected secretary. The group discussed rural school term length and centralization, hearing remarks from Prof. J. Fred Olander and local figures on consolidating townships into centralized schools and extending school terms.
The afternoon meeting lists 11:40 words from the county superintendent and sessions on music, village and country school work, delegate reports to Omaha exposition, teacher shortages in Huron, round table on school discipline and libraries, transportation, contracts, and attendance certificates. Participants include Prin J.C. Pasek, Ethel Wyman, Miss Florence McGarvey, Mildred Borah, and others.
The religious press reports an extensive publicity campaign by the Home Missions Council. Two two day conference series will be held in eastern and southern cities starting January 25 in Brooklyn and ending February 9 in Philadelphia, with a second tour through Cincinnati Nashville St Louis Kansas City Omaha Minneapolis Chicago from March 21 to 30. Topics include Today's Outstanding Problems of Home Missions and A Christianized America for Nation Building among others. The aim is to present the importance of the home mission enterprise, not to raise funds, in face of immigration, urban congestion, socialism and religious unrest.
The funeral of Mrs. Theodore Thompson, formerly Louise Havens, who died suddenly at her Dakota avenue home, will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Adit house with interment in Riverside cemetery. A daughter of early Sanborn County settlers, she taught school in Sanborn and Grant townships before marrying Thompson and moving to Huron. Her sisters Minnie and Maude are west of the Missouri and May Williams of Mitchell could not be reached in time.
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