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Aneen City SPEARFISH, LAWRENCE COUNTY, SOUTH DAKOTA, AUGUST 20, 1946 YEAR School Opening Delayed As Polio Precaution Public schools in Lawrence county have postponed opening from one to two weeks as a precautionary measure against the polio epidemic in South Dakota. Although only three cases of the disease have originated in this county, school 1 officials acting on the recommendation of boards of health have thought it wise to delay school registration. Spearfish public schools have set Sept. 9 as the date for starting classes. The county's rural schools, Deadwood, Lead and Central City public schools will not open until Sept.

16. Black Hills Teachers college and the laboratory school will open on the scheduled date, Sept. 9. Sturgis and Belle Fourche publie shools have postponed opening until Sept. 9.

The latest case of polio in this county Was revealed Monday when a 3-year-old boy from Trojan was taken to Rapid City for treatment. The other two Lawrence county cases originated in Lead. Registration for Spearfish publie schools has been set back one week from the dates announced last week. Starting Sept. 5, senfors will register at the high school from 9 a.

m. to 3 p. m. Juniors will register Sept. 6 and sophomores and freshman Sept.

7. High 1 school classes will open Sept. 9. Grades 1 through 6 will register Bept. 9 at the elementary building and class will start the same day.

Grades 7 and 8 will register and start classes Sept. 9 at the high school. Regents Give Final Approval Ity List The Dakota board of regents last week approved the faculty dist for Black Hills Teachers college and the BHTC laboratory school, where fall registration is scheduled to start Sept. 9. Three teacher appointments not heretofore announced were approved by the regents.

Edith Blyler, B. of Rochester, will become first grade critic at the laboratory school. A sister of Dorothea Blyler, head of the college music department, Miss Blyler is on leave of absence for one year from the Rockford, public schools. Mrs. Virginia Kennedy, B.

8. of Spearfish was given temporary appointment for 1946- 47 as assistant instructor In mathematics for School of Mines students who will be registered here. Mrs. Kennedy previously taught Mathematics to army students at the college when the 98rd AAFCTD WaS stationed here. Virginia Johnson, R.

of Spearfish, who will complete nurses' training at Rochester, in September, was hired as school nurse. She also will enroll as a student for work on a B. 8. degree. Mrs.

Irene Hair, who was first grade critic last year, will become director of student teaching and instructor in professional subjecta. She will co-ordinate the work of the college and the laboratory school. New teachers previously approved include Edward Thatcher, M. who will teach biology; Miriam Hart, M. women's physical education; H.

E. Hendrickson, M. mathematis and science; and Norman Thomas, M. social science. Other changes in the faculty include Evelyn Elliott, M.

who has been acting registrar, to business education; J. B. Smith, M. former acting principal of the laboratory school, to director of personnel and registrar; and Winnie M. Thomas, A.

former director of rural teaching, to laboratory school principal. State Coaching Clinic Concluded Registration reached a total or 120 by the time the annual coaching clinic of the South Dakota high school athletic association ended its sessions at Black Hills Teachers college Thursday of last week. The planned tive-day 40s- sion was shortened one day when the Friday meetings were worked in with the sessions scheduled for Thursday. Mail No. 86 Vote on New Gas Franchise Tuesday Spearfish voters will go to the polls next Tuesday, Sept.

8, to approve or disapprove 8 new 20- year franchise for the MontanaDakota Utilities company. An ordinance granting the franchsle has been approved by the city council but it requires an affirming vote by the people to become effective. Although the company's present franchise does not expire until 1948, It requested a special election to permit it to go ahead with 8 program of expansion of ita facilities and service. All three wards in the city will vote at the city hall as usual. Polls will be open from 1 8 a.

ml. to 5 p. m. Spearfish Woman Elected Director of Pioneer Society More than 75 persons attended the annual meeting of the Society of Black Hills Pioneers at the Franklin hotel in Deadwood Saturday night. There were brief talks by members, visiting and election of officers.

Mrs. B. F. Bettelheim of Spearfish was elected to the board of directors. Spearfish members who attended were Mrs.

Bettelheim, Mrs. O. Allen Anderson, Mrs. Minnie Massie and Mrs. Alma Cook.

Albert Gushurst of Lead was re-elected president of the society. Other officers elected were Mrs. May Berry of Lead, treasurer; D. M. McGabey of Deadwood, secretary; Freeman Steele of Sturgis, vice-president for Meade county; Mrs.

Orpha Haxby of Rapid vice-president for Pennington county; Maida Hoover of Belle Fourche, vice-president for Butte county; and Mrs. Ruth Todd of Lead, vice-president for Lawrence county. Directors elected were Mrs. Bettelheim, John T. Milek of Sturgis, Frank T.

Waugh and Cushman Clark of Deadwood, and Mrs. Alice Tyler Humphryes of Lead. C. L. Snedeker of Deadwood, new member of the society, brought up the condition of the Mt.

Roosevelt road, which WAS desribed as being in deplorable shape. The road leads to the Roosevelt monument which was built by the Society 88 a tribute to Theodore Roosevelt. A committee composed of Snedeker, Edna Ford and Horace Clark was appointed to interview city, county and forest officials to see if linprovements to the road can be made. Last Rites Held Wednesday for Albert Houston, 70 Funeral services with the Odd Fellows lodge in charge were held Wednesday afternoon at the McColley funeral home at 2 o'clock for Albert Houston, 70, retired Homestake employe who died here Saturday. He had been in 111 health for the past seven years and for over four years had been cared for by Mrs.

Minnie Sleep. The Rev. R. W. Hepler of the Methodist church preached the funeral sermon.

Burial was at the Spearfish cemetery. Pallbearers were Frank Fuller, O. M. Blake, George Blake, Albert Clark, Sheldon Lockwan and Ernest Ashley. Surviving relatives are a son, Ralph Houston of Lead; three daughters, Mra.

Ray Olds of Moorcroft, Mrs. Henry McLain El Folrande, and Mrs. Eugene Penttila of Igloo; two brothers, Frank Houston of Rhame, N. and Earl Houston of Leavenworth, and sister, Mrs. Richard Anderson of Whitney, Neb.

Mr. Houston was alomst a lifelong resident of the Black Hills and was employed by the Homestake over 34 years. going to work for the company first in 18- 98. He was retired April 1, 1943. Re was born in Bay City, Nov.

6, 1876, and his parents brought him to Deadwood in the spring of 1878. He lived in Central City until he was 12 years old and then started to work for stockman at White Owl. In 19- 00 he was married to Alice Meader, who died several years ago. JEFF MULHOLLAND BURIED AT SUNDANCE AUG. 29 Jeff Mulholland, 85 year old brother-in-law of Mrs.

Jessie Mulholland of Spearfish, died Aug. 20 at Upton, after long Illness. He was buried at Sundance Aug. 22. Mrs.

Mulholland attended the rites. Three Die, Two Are Injured in Car Crash Mrs. Hubert Heying, 47, summer resident of Spearfish, was killed Sunday in AD automobile crash seven miles east of Rapid City which took the lives of two other persons. Also dead were Mr. and Mrs.

John Lobe of Hollywood, occupants of a car which crashed head-on into the automobile in which Mrs. Heying was riding. Injured were Margaret Adele Heying, daughter, 16, and Mrs. Gertrude Kuykendall, 41, sister of Hubert Heying. The daughter suffered a broken leg and head cuts while Mrs.

Kuykendall had fractures of both legs and other severe injuries. The Heyings' home was in Kangas City where Mr. Heying ates Stark and company, lumber dealers. He and Clarence Riggs of Spearfish are owners of the Stark and company sawmill near here and Mr. Heying was owner of ranch one and one half miles southwest of town formerly owned by Ben Stoller.

The family have been living in the city park and they were on their way to Kansas City when the accident occurred. The body of Mrs. Heying was sent to Kansas City and the injured women are in a Rapid City hospital. The accident ocurred during a light rain and the road was described as slippery. Hubert Heying, with his three sons, was in another car ahead of his wife and told officers that the Lobe car was "fishtailing" when it passed him and seemed to go completely out of control as it approached the other car.

He said the Lobe car swung directly in front of Mrs. Heying's car and that she struck him broadside opposite the front seat. Surviving Mrs. Heying are her husband, two daughters, Margaret Adele and Mrs. Gaylord Booth of Spearfish, and three sons, Hubert, Charles and William.

Good Crowd Attends Picnic for Belle Lions About 25 couples represented the Belle Fourche Lions club at a night plenic at the city the park Monday sponsored by Spearfish Lions club. Total attendance at the dinner was 110. Following the picnic dinner the group met in the pavilion for short talks by Congressman Francis Case and Burton Pentold of Belle Fourche, Lions district governor. Guests of the Lions included Guy Bjorge and Kenneth Kellar of Lead, who talked to the group, as did Josef Meier of the Spearfish Lions club. At the conclusion of the meeting Case, Bjorge, Kellar and a group representing the Lions and Chamber of Commerce met for AD informal discussion at the home of Josef Meier.

Their talk concerned plans for hard-surfacing the Spearfish canyon road, flood control and soil onservation. Party for Wagners Attended by Many Between 75 and 100 people attended an open-house party at the Methodist church Monday night honoring the Rev. and' Mrs. Robert Wagner of Madison. The Rev.

Wagner was pastor of the Spearfish church until a little over a year ago. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner, accompanied by LeRoy Phillips of Cambridge, have been vacationing in the Hills. Mr.

Phillips, an old friend of the Wagnera, has visited them each summer for several years. Mrs. Bert Scott had charge of the program at the open Monday night. Appearing on the program were Russell Christensen, vocal solo; Mrs. Van Sorenson, piano and violin solos; and Mrs.

Lillian Fillmore and the Rev. Wagner, vocal duet. Mr. and Mrs. Wagner and Mr.

Phillips left Tuesday morning to return home. St. Onge Pioneer Has 86th Birthday Mra. Metilda Thornwall, one of the St. Onge community's oldest pioneers, celebrated her 86th birthday quietly at her home Aug.

20. St. Onge has been her home for the past 60 years. Several neighbors and friends called at her home during the day to offer congratulations and gifts. She is in unusually good health for her age.

Mra. Thornwall came from Sweden to the Black Hills when she was a young girl and WAS married in 1880 to Charles Thornwall of Lead. They moved to a ranch near St. Onge soon after their marriage. Her husband died several years ago.

Plan "Play Day" Here for Northern Hills Riding Clubs A "play day" for half a dozen riding clubs of the northern Hills is being planned here Sept. 29 by the Spearfish Saddle club, according to Fay Wolf, chairman of the committee planning the event. Riding clubs from Belle Fourche, Deadwood, Lead, Sturgis and Sundance will be invited. The event will be held at the race track northwest of town and will include various contests such 88 horsemanship, musical chair, horse races, potato race, men's and women's bending races, rescue race and children's contests. The Spearfish Bridle club drill team will also put on an exhibition.

There will be Do entry fees charged and the affair will be free to the public. Others on the committee in charge of the play day are Mrs. Harvey Douglas, Mrs. B. F.

Matthiesen, Herb Glaser, Robert Henwood and Charlie Henwood. Members of the Spearfish club are planning to go to Sundance Saturday of this week where they will put on a demonstration at the Crook county fair. 6 p. m. Closing Is Recommended by Civic Group Spearfish will go back to mountain standard time at midnight Aug.

31, this Saturday night. Though this town has not been officially on daylight time, nearly all business firms have operated on "fast time" since the first of June. The Chamber of Commerce Tuesday night voted to recommend that business firms throughout the city set their closing hours at 6 p. m. each week-day, eliminating the usual late closing hour on Saturday night.

Leading firms already had agreed to co-operate with this plan and most of the others are expected to follow the recommendations of the club. It was proposed that this closing hour be adopted on Sept. 1 when the clocks will be set back to mountain standard time. Opening time in the morning was left up to each individual firm. The club also recommende that all close Monda Labor following the usual custom.

A report on the activities of the Greater South Dakota association was given by C. D. Rohiffs of Huron, field secretary of that organization. With camera slide illustrations, Robiffs outlined the work done by the South Dakota businessmen's organization for agriulture, highways and tourists, taxation studles and industry. 40 Expeoted Out for Opening Grid Session at BHTC 3 Art Students Place in National Drawing Contest Three Spearfish high school art class students won awards in nation-wide drawing contest sponsored by a Chicago ink manufacturer last spring, it was announced this week.

The students were Jo Ann Schmidt, who placed 19th, Dorothy J. Fuller, 28th, and Rosie Larive, 47th. It was significant that nearly all the other students who won awards were from schools in the nation's biggest cities or from art institutes. Mrs. Mildred Menard 18 the high school art instructor.

The contest was for original drawings of stamp pad covers. There were about 50 entries by members of the Spearfish high school art class. Altogether thousand art students in the pation took part. The Louis Melind company, sponsor of the contest, said that a brochure of the work of the winners was being prepared and that copies would be sent to the Spearfish students. Maxine Lynn and Paul McFall Wed at Broadus Sunday Maxine Lynn, daughter of Mr.

and Mra. Ross E. Lynn of Spearfish, and Paul McFall, son of Mr. and Mrs. M.

E. McFall, formerly of Spearfish and now of Rapid City, were married Sunday at Broadus, by Justice of the Peace Marcella Turley. Attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Tucker of Rapid City, brother-ni-law and sister of the bridegroom.

The mothers the two principals were present at the ceremony as was Forrest MeFall, brother of the bride. A graduate of Sundance high school in 1939, the bride attended school at Black Hills Teachers college and for the past two and one-balf years has been employed at the Triple A office in Spearfish. The bridegroom is working in the soil conservation office In Rapid City. Mra. McFall will continue working at the agriculture office here for awhile and then the couple will make their home in Rapid City.

Free Lecture on Christian Science Here Next Sunday "Christian Science: A Religion of Works," la the title of the free lecture to be given at Spearfish high school auditorium Sunday afternoon, Sept. 1, at 3 o'- clock. John S. Sammons, C. 8., the lecturer, comes from Chicago, 111., and is a member of the board of lectureship of Mother Church, The First Church of Then Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.

In arranging for this lecture. the members of the Christian Science society of Spearfish believe they are providing a means for reaching many people with answers to frequent questions about Christian Science -what it teaches, how it heals, why many have become its adherants. The society has entended an invitation to the public to attend. The lecture is free. Sugar Stamp No.

49 Expires Aug. 31 Spare ration stamp No. 49 which became valid for sugar on May 1 expires on Aug. 31, the Sioux Falls district OPA office announced this week. Sept.

1, spare stamp No. 61 will become valid for five pounds of sugar and remin valid until Dec. 31. These two stamps are for general use. Spare stamp No.

9 for canning purposes which became valid May 1, and No. 10, also a spare, which became valid July 1 for canning purposes, will both expire on Oct. 31. The district office has reported few applications for extra canning sugar have been received. Sugar supply is critical and there is little likelihood that an additional grant for canning will be made.

The office received numerous applications from farmers for extra sugar for barvesting and threshing. BHTC to Enroll 50-60 Students for School of Mines Black Hills Teachers college this fall will assist the State School of Mines and Technology at Rapid City by enrolling 50 to 60 Mines students for special work at the Spearfish college. Because of insufficient staff members, classroom space and housing, the School of Mines has been able to accept less than half of the new students who applied for admission this fall. The arrangement with BHTC will enable the schools to start the education of few more students than the quota of 500 allowed the Rapid City school. The additional students will be registered at the teachers college but will be considered as students of the School of Mines.

They will be housed at the college dormitory, private homes, the veterans' trailer camp and the city park. The students who will be assigned to Spearfish will be from group who, because of certain deficiencies, are not qualified to register for regular freshman work at the School of Mines. The courses they will take will be outlined and designed by the Mines staff and the same textbooks will be used in courses on both campuses. The students will be assigned to classes to clean up their deficiencies and will be enrolled In as many freshman college courses 08 their schedules will permit. They will be considered 88 Mines students on an "extended campus" and those who satisfactorily pass the work for which they are scheduled at the teachers college will be automatically eligible for enrollment at the Mines in the summer or fall of 1947.

Freshmen at the Mines are expected to have satisfactorily completed certain subjects in mathematica and science and to have established certain proficiency in English to be eligible to take the subjects which are required in the freshman year. In the past the Rapid City school has provided the instruction necessary to make up the deficiencies but the present capacity enrollment makes this impossible. Thus the arrangement with BHTC to allow 50 to 60 Mines students to start their college education when otherwise they might have to defer their schooling for one or more years. Applications for entrance to the School of Mines from out of state students was discontinued in early May and on June 6 no further applications were taken from state students. Students for the Spearfish plan will be taken from the present registrations on file in the order of their receipt.

Saucier-Dowling Nuptials Read Pauline Saucier, daughter of Reva and Ray Saucier, was married to Thomas Dowling of Long Island, N. Saturday at 3 o'clock p. m. at the Catholic church. Magr.

W. A. Sobolewski conducted the ceremony. Attendants were Zona Sherrard. Lester Sherrard, Rosella Schmeltzer and Elmore Driskill.

The bride wore a white marquisette wedding gown and carried bouquet of red roses. The bridesmaids wore pink formals and carried white gardenias. After the ceremony luncheon was served at the botel coffee shop. The couple will live in Rapid City where the bridegroom will attend the School of Mines this winter. Will Repair Roofs on Cost Plus Basis No bids were received by the state board of regents Thursday of last week when the board met at Black Hills Teachers college to consider proposals for repairing roots of buildings and waterproofing the outside of the gymnasium.

However, the regents made arrangements to do the roofing repair on a cost plus basis and Allen Lewis of Deadwood was hired to do the work. Work on the gymnasium was postponed. Prospects appeared good for fair sized football squad at Black Hills Teachers college this tall Coach Oliver M. Olson called the opening practice session for 2:30 p. m.

Sept. 3. Issuing of equipment and a short drill will inaugurate the first competitive grid season at the college since 1942. So far there have been 36 candidates registered for football with several others ready to sign up. At least 40 are expected out for opening practice, Olson said.

The season's first game will be Sept. 21 here against Scottsbluff, Junior college. The squad this year will be composed mainly of war veterans. Of the 36 now registered, 33 are veterans and the other three this year's high school graduates. The four others expected to register are also 1946 high school graduates.

Twenty-two of the candidates are former students or have been in school at the college this summer. They are Glen Burgess, Robert Kohn, Alvin Yanzick, James Bowen, Ken Palmer, 1 Max Brown, John Garbart, Tead Weaver, Chester Worth, Bert Stump, James Hazledine, Fred Reausaw and Alfred Larson of Spearfish; Don King and George King of Whitewood; Lee Albert of Nisland; Don Rounds and F. Symonds of Sundance; Don Wieland of Scotland; Levi Ironhawk Cheyenne Agency; James Doyle of Pierre; and Edward Lodge of Sturgis. 'Other candidates registered include Robert Cole, Mike Fish, Leo Russell and Ralph McLaughlin of Spearfish; Virgil Britton. Charles Knutson, Frank Mullaney, Don Murray and Robert Panero of Lead; Charles Chiton of Deadwood; James Payne and John Schmidt of Nisland; Leo Grannon and Harry Slater of Rapid City; Don Bjorum of Scotland; Arn Mollendorf of Central City; and Vern Parr of Dallas.

Rock Service Station Opened Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilkins of Deadwood opened the Rock Service station on the south edge of Spearfish and are featuring a line hets including oils formerly operate barbecue and service station at Pluma for two years before coming to Speartish. They have been doing extensive remodeling of the interior of their new station, converting the rear portio into an apartment in whieh they will live. The new owners plan to do more building next spring if materials are available to construct a restaurant and other additional facilities for the station.

Local News Notes Mrs. O. W. Hanson of ton, arrived here Sunday to spend several weeks visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs. W.

E. Dickey. Mr. and Mrs. F.

N. Boss of Seattle, who have been visiting at the Dickey home, left for their home Wednesday. Mra. Boss is Mrs. Dickey's sister.

Lloyd Eaton, who has accepted a job A8 coach at Martin this year, will leave Friday to begin his coaching duties. Mrs. Eaton will join him there as soon as the apartment they have rented is avilable. At present Mrs. Eaton is at the home of her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. W. E. Dickey. Lorraine Whitlock, who spent the summer here at the home of her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. F. W. Whitlock, will leave tomorrow for Kellogg, where she will resume her teaching duties in the grade school there. This is Miss Whitlock's second year at Kellogg.

Her sister, Mrs. Floyd Mabanke, and three sons of Wallace, who spent the summer at the Whitlock home here, will leave for Wallace in a couple of weeks. Mr. Mahanke has ed a home at Wallace and he is trying to buy furniture for the house before his family arrives home. Dr.

and Mrs. Howard Kramer and family, former Spearfish residents, left for their home at Springfield Tuesday morning after spending several weeks Vacationing in their cabin in Spearfish canyon and at the city park. Guests at a family dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wood in Belle Fourche Sunday were Mr.

and Mrs. Allen C. Ev- ans and Billy Evans and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Evans, Mr.

and Mrs. C. E. McCain and obildren and Mrs. Minnie Massle.

Mr. and Mrs. William Staiger of Spearfish were among a group of people who visited with Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Ireland and Paul Staiger in Ice Box canyon recently.

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Helmer of Belle Fourche were included In the group, also, Sgt. George W. Robinson, who has been spending a 60-day furlough in Spearfish, left Thursday of last week for Ft.

Leavenworth, for re-assignment. Mrs. Robinson and two sons remained here at the home of Mrs. Robinson's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

William Rummans. They will join Sgt. Robinson after he has located. Capt. Howard Ice of Shreveport, visited briefly with relatives here last week-end on flight into the middle west.

He 1 8 son of Clyde Ice of the Black Hills airport. He is serving with the army air corps. Mrs. Fred Willard is recuperating at her home here after AD illness that caused her to spend three weeks in a hospital at Rapid City. Weber Rites Are Held Friday Last rites for Jacob Weber.

65, who died Aug. 20, were held at Friday at the Catholic chureb. Burial was at the Spearfish etery. Surviving relatives who were able to attend the funeral included a sister, Mrs. Rose Kappenman of Montrose, S.

and her son, Eley; another mister, Mra. Kate Bollenback of Portland, a brother, John Weber of Sturgie; and a niece, Marion Driscoll of Billings, Mont. Active pall bearers were M. J. Kerper of Sturgis, R.

A. Douglas of Rapid City, H. S. Black of Deadwood, P. M.

Peterson, Henry Johnson and E. M. Quinn of Honorary pall bearers were Charles Brady of Buffalo, H. Walker of Sturgis, William Dunn of Lead, Elmer Arneson of Yankton, Duke Hembd of Pierre, H. W.

Perkins, Josef Meier, Otto Behrens, John Brockelaby, Lam Menard, T. L. Cutter, Gerald 0'- Brien and K. M. Seeley of fish..