August 6, 1914
Del Southmayde began threshing Tuesday on his place near Butte Hall. A spark from the engine set the straw pile afire and it spread to the wheat field in the shocks and burned up about 30 bushels. The place is a dry ranch, and the yield was 12 ½ bushels on a 32-acre field. This is the first threshing done in this locality this year.
It is of interest to many young people of this and surrounding districts to learn Newell Schools have extended their High School course to include the 11th year, as well as quite an outlay in the way of library and apparatus. They would be glad to hear from any, who are contemplating taking High School work with them, telling their classification is likely to be so that may lose less time in getting started when school begins.
July 31, 1924
The turkey crop of the Horse Creek vicinity is going to be very short unless something can be done to stop the ravages of blackhead, which has broken out in several flocks.
Last Friday afternoon Mrs. Henderson entertained the Swedish Ladies Aid. There was a large attendance and the hostess served delicious refreshments during a social hour. Mrs. Pendo and daughter, Esther Florence of Lead were guests. The Confirmation Class for the Swedish Lutheran Church met on Saturday at the home of Mrs. Hannah Wilson with pastor Mr. Burton. Mr. Burton, a student preacher, acting pastor of the Lead Swedish Lutheran Church, spent the weekend. On Sunday he held two services at the Milberg School, the morning one being in Swedish language.
Mr. & Mrs. Brunger are expecting a new Chevrolet coupe any day now. They have waited anxiously for it for some time. S. H. Aoe is back on duty at the Livestock Exchange Bank after spending a vacation at his old home in Sisseton. During his absence he acquired a new car and made the return trip in it.
August 9, 1934
Rural Postmen in the Northwestern District of the US and South Dakota have been officially supplied with packets of bird seeds to carry on their rounds and deliver to the birds.
A new prohibition war to prevent the repeal of state and local prohibition laws and ultimately to build up public sentiment in an effort to repeal Wet Laws enacted after the 18th Amendment was abrogated has been launched by dry forces of the nation.
Practically the entire town was called to the Hodgson Bros ranch Friday night to help search for Danny Krein, 4-year-old boy, who strayed away from a car and lost his way. Mrs. James Lloyd had driven to the Hodgson farm to meet her husband and while she was out of the car, the youngster slipped out and disappeared. Searchers tramped practically all night and located the boy at daylight the next morning a short distance north of the Hodgson home. The youngster was scared but suffered no ill effects from his night out.
Plans for the 13th Annual Butte County Fair were made at a meeting of the Fair Board held at the Fair Grounds at Nisland Tuesday evening. Admission to the grounds will be 25 cents. A season or exhibitor’s ticket will be sold at 50 cents. All children under 15 years old will be admitted free, as well as all 4-H Club members who have their badge. The charging of admission is made necessary in order to raise money to pay premiums on all exhibits. The bowery dance will be held each evening and should be a success, as a good orchestra is being secured and the floors now being surfaced and polished.
August 3, 1944
A full-grown cyclone, equipped with terrific wind power and armed with hailstones the size of baseballs, swept over a large area of center Butte County on Tuesday evening around 7:30, bringing serious losses of uncut grain and other crops and demolishing barns and light buildings. The storm persisted for nearly an hour, the first direct wind came first out of the west, then shifted to the north and later the northeast at 70 miles per hour. In the Newell vicinity probably, the worst havoc was wrought at the Matt Kuntz place, 3 miles northeast of town, where the wind smashed several outbuildings on the farm and badly damaged another dwelling which was smashed in on one side, all windows on west and north side of house and the 2 chimneys wrecked. Over at Nisland the roof was taken from the grandstand at the Butte County Fair Grounds and smashed into kindling wood.
Twin babies were born last Thursday morning at the Belle Fourche Hospital to Mr. & Mrs. Fred Bunney of Newell. The babies have been named Ronald Dean and Gloria Jean. They weighed 5 pounds 10 ounces and 5 pounds 7 ounces respectively. Mother and babies are doing fine.
For nearly a week at Belle Fourche they have been puzzling over the mysterious disappearance of Roy Crawford, a herder employed at a sheep ranch 20 miles north of Belle Fourche. The man left on July 25th without collecting salary due him. No trace of him could be learned until a roll of blankets, taken from the sheep camp, was found on the golf course south of Belle Fourche. Sheriff Elmer R. Hill announced Tuesday that a man answering Crawford’s description was seen on the golf course on July 20th. So, Sheriff Hill believes the fellow just “went south”.
August 5, 1954
Regular livestock sales at Newell will be resumed on a weekly schedule next Monday, when the Newell Livestock Exchange holds its re-opening sale at what is one of the most modern sales yards in the state. The sale will begin at 1:00 PM with sheep, cattle and hogs to be sold that day. C. O. Wilsey has been engaged as auctioneer. Wilsey is well experienced in livestock selling and comes here highly recommended. Other personnel of the exchange will remain about the same: J. B. LaFayette is Manager and Albert Cram is President. Both will work the ring and yards. The café in the sales building is being operated by Mrs. Fidelia Tompkins and Mrs. Helen Long.
A special meeting of the Irrigation District Board of Directors was held at Newell office July 23, for the purpose of securing supplemental irrigation water from Keyhole Reservoir for Project lands under the Johnson Lateral and Inlet Canal. The motion carried unanimously, that the District purchase 1000 acre feet of water from Bureau of Reclamation. Approximately 2400-acre feet of water is now available at Keyhole which could be released for these lands at terms of 1953.
A report on Girls’ State by the 1954 Newell delegate, Lou Ann Caton, will high-light the regular meeting of the Ross-Kayras Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary next Wednesday. The meeting will be called at 8:00 PM at the Legion Hall. This is the first meeting following summer vacation and it is important that all members attend.
July 30, 1964
The alertness of a 5-year-old girl, Esther Jo, daughter of Rev & Mrs. Robin Johnston of Vale, may have saved the life of her 2-year-old sister, Ruth Francis, Tuesday morning when she led the latter into the house after having approached a strange creature. Esther took her sister by the hand and reported to her mother. Ezra Pauley was alerted who was irrigating in a field nearly, quickly killed the snake which proved to be a rattler, almost 3 feet long with 7 rattles. Johnston lives ½ mile east and ½ mile north of Vale on the Belle Fourche Project, where rattle snakes are very rare.
U&I Sugar Company announced this week a 2nd subsequent payment of $370,725 to growers in Washington, Idaho, Utah and South Dakota, for sugar beets delivered during the 1963 campaign. Initial payment for the crop was made in November of 1963 and the 1st subsequent payment was made in April. A final payment will be made in October. The several payments are made because growers participate in net returns form the crop as it is sold.
Construction of another modern new home in Newell was started this week by Keith Giannonatti and Bob Lei, local carpenters, this being one for Mr. & Mrs. Lorman Lange, along 7th Street, just east of the new Harry Dumler residence. Gene Hemmer, local Lampert Manager, also announces that Giannonatti and Lei are also making an addition to another modern home, a screened patio at the Ed Breidenbach residence. The attractive addition will have a plastic roof.
Mrs. Harold Dutton, Mrs. John Marty and Mrs. Donald Bekken all of Zeona, were breakfast guests Monday morning at the home of Mrs. Earl Jones. The Zeona ladies had been to Outlaw Bible Camp on Sunday to take their children there for camp and later attended the Passion Play in Spearfish and were overnight guests of Mrs. Bill Marty, Sr. in Spearfish.
