In Afton township, Mrs. Ruth Raber in the Florine school; Shirley Mae Unterbrunner in the Crandall school; Glenda Senska, in the Lucid school.

Floyd township: Ila Hamm in the Rhodes school and Eliner Drake in the Center school. The Hayes school has no teacher as yet.

Jackson township: Eunice Pearson in the Flagel school; Helen Thomas in the Hegg school, and Mrs. Marcella Melius in the McDonald school.

Warren township: Mrs. Amy Hegg in the Christensen school, and Mrs. Helen Whitney in the Kline school.

Woonsocket township: Frances McCall in the Berlin school, and Mrs. Margaret Mary Smith.

Silver Creek: Mrs. Emma Jopp in the Center school, and Rubie Crippen in the Baruth school.

Oneida township: Mrs. Lillian Hefflefinger will teach the Schaffer school.

Benedict township: Mrs. Nina Bolton in the Tysdal school and Mrs. Lela Dodd in the Jones school.

Diana township: Edith Lager in the King school, Mrs. Mabel Stindtman in the Grenell school, and Emily Bilka in the Goering school.

Union township: Mrs. Louise Patterson in the Forbes school, Mrs. Iris Sundstrom in the Rankin school, and Marvel Thorson in the Wise school.

Logan township: Mrs. Odella Johnson in the Lakeview school, and Eleanor Kneen in the Heald school.

Twin Lake township: Vera Kemptner will teach the Cuthbert school.

Elliott township: Lucille Larson in the Mayhew school, Frances McIntyre in the Heljeson school, and Florence Boe in the Leet school,

Butler township: Lois Edwards in the Stekl school, Mrs. Martha Ohlson in the Jacobus school, and Ellen Pearson in the Titus school.

Ravenna township: Norman Thorson in the Ludwig school; Angeline Schmidt in the Lyle school, and Lillian Ott in the Farwell school.

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Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
Miss Edna Baker, daughter of Mr. and Mr. Frank Baker, of Plankinton, and Reuben Sonne, son of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Sonne, of Letcher, were married Saturday, August 17, in the Wesleyan Methodist church at Mitchell. The Rev. Marvin E. Jones, pastor, officiated at the single-ring ceremony. The bride was attired in a two-piece aqua colored suit and wore a white aster corsage. Her attendant, Miss June Carlson, of Mitchell, wore a two-piece rose-colored suit, and also wore a corsage of asters. The bridegroom and best man, Raymond Peterson, of Mr. Vernon, wore dark suits with white boutonnieres. Mrs. Sonne graduated from the Mt. Vernon high school in 1946, and Mr. Sonne recently received his discharge from the army. They are making their home on a farm one mile west of Storla. A shower was held in the Frank Baker home on Friday evening, August 23, honoring Mr. and Mrs. Sonne, with Miss Goldie Baker and Mrs. Everett Baker, hostesses. About forty persons were present, and the evening was spent in playing appropriate games, under the direction of Mrs. Emil Fiala, at the close of which a basket of gifts was presented the couple, and a delicious lunch was served.

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Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
GEORGE MARSH MARRIED IN CALIFORNIA
Lt. Commander George A. Marsh, son of Mrs. Emma Marsh, of Woonsocket, was married, Sunday, August 18, 1946, to Miss La Bonna Alice Irwin, in Berkeley, Calif. George is a Lieutenant Commander in the U. S. Navy, and is now serving on terminal leave.

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Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
Forestburg News
Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Smith and family and John Mack were callers at the John Blow home in Artesian, Wednesday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Knutson, of Springfield, Ia., are here visiting his folks, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Knutson.

John Mack went to Carthage, Sunday, to visit his sister, Mrs. John Schmitz.

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Nocktigall moved to Witten, S.D., Sunday, where he will be the superintendent of the school.

Mr. and Mrs. Willard Briggs left Tuesday for Sulliban, Ill., where he will teach.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ross, of Bancroft, Nebr., came Thursday and visited until Saturday with their cousin, Fred Dralle.

Arland Lindsley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Lindsley, escaped what could have been a serious accident, when the A of a hay stacker fell on him. He was bruised somewhat, but no bones were broken.

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Briggs are now residing in Huron. Mr. Briggs has accepted a position as department head in the Gamble store. At present they are visiting with Mrs. Briggs' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rhodes, in Woonsocket.

Vic Olhson is here visiting his mother, Mrs. Charley Ohlson.

Mrs. Albert Goudy is a patient at a Mitchell hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Goudy and family returned home Saturday evening from a trip into Iowa. Mrs. Goudy's brother, Parnell Fredlake, was married and they attended the wedding.

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Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
Lane News
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Nissen and Donna, of Pipestone, Minn., spent the week end at the home of their son, Raymond Nissen, and family here.

Marion Lyftogt entered the Methodist hospital at Mitchell, Monday morning and submitted to an operation for appendicitis that afternoon.

Mrs. Bert Swenson was taken to the Methodist hospital at Mitchell, Friday morning, where she is receiving medical treatment.

Duewain Kringen returned on Tuesday from the St. Joseph hospital at Mitchell, where he had spent the past three weeks following an operation for hernia.

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Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
Storla News
Schools opened in Belford on Monday, with Mrs. Carrie Scott Walker as teacher for the Storla school; Miss Pearl Olson at the Thompson school; Mrs. Donald Steichen at the Woodmansee school; Miss Bessie Plooster, of Corsica, at the Peterson school, and Leo Scott at Elm Grove.

Miss Betty Scott enrolled on Monday at Notre Dame College in Mitchell as a Normal student.

Miss Viola Scott leaves this week for Canton, S.D., where she is an instructor at the Lutheran Academy there.

Miss Lucille Selland left Monday for Armour, S.D., where she is the principal and will teach English at the school there.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gaulke mourn the loss of their infant baby, born at a Huron hospital, recently. Our sincere sympathy is extended.

Ted Mickelson bought Pete Thompson's Ford tractor, including the plow, cultivator and mower, last week.

Reuben Sonne's friends and neighbors in and around Storla, charavaried he and his bride by driving in for the evening one day last week and wishing them best wishes and enjoying the time socially. They were married recently and will make their home near Storla on a farm. We too, extend our best wishes to this fine young couple.

Mrs. Carrie Walker and children moved into Storla this week and live in the house just south of the Storla store. We all welcome these friends with us once more.

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Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
NW of Town
Mr. and Mrs. Oren Teller and Dean returned Monday evening from their vacation in the Black Hills region.

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Callan left early Thursday morning for their home in San Jose, Calif., after a two months vacation with home folks.

Tommy Gormally spent several days last week visiting his sister, at Worthington, Minn.

SW of Town
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Neelan called to see Mrs. Alex Regynski at a Huron hospital.

Mr. and Mrs. Anton Goergen and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Goergen's sisters at Mitchell.

The two little daughters of Ernest Regynski spent Tuesday afternoon with their grandfather, Frank Regynski.

Mrs. Nick F. Steichen returned home Monday from her visit with relatives in Minnesota.

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Woonsocket News, Sep. 5, 1946
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS
Louie Gerleman and family left today for North Dakota, Montana and to Yellowstone National Park for a vacation trip.

Miss Ledoris Forbes who is employed at Wessington Springs, spent the week here at her home, visiting her mother.

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Siegenthaler spent Thursday and Friday of last week in Sioux Falls on business.

Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Ward returned Sunday from a two weeks fishing trip at Lac la Croix in Canada.

Miss Dorothy Daharsh, of Sioux Falls, is spending a couple of weeks at home with her mother, Mrs. Wm. Effling.

Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Conway plan to move to Platte where Mr. Conway will be employed in a drug store at that place.

Irene Eddy visited last week at the home of her sister, Mrs. Gene Madsen, at New Underwood, S. D.

Mr. and Mrs. John Bluhm and nephew, of Letcher, visited with Mrs. Rubida Cote on Wednesday evening.

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Leines, of Mellette, a daughter, on August 30, weighting 8 lbs. and 11 ounces. She was named Ann Marcile.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Schlomer and daughter, Reva, and Mrs. Moore, of Kansas City, left Saturday for a trip through the Black Hills.

Misses Lois Larson and Helen Gray, who have been working at St. Luke's Hospital in Aberdeen, helping care for polio patients, came home Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hardman took their daughter, Mrs. Warren Catron and son, to their home at Fairmont, Minn., last Sunday, after a visit here.

Miss Rose Mary Willson left Tuesday for her home at Sioux City, after making a visit here with her sister, Mrs. Carl Regynski.

Mrs. Will Steichen returned home Sunday from Chicago, after visiting two weeks with her daughters, Wilma and Lorraine, and Leona of Sugar Grove, Ill.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jordan and son, Robert, of Minneapolis, spent last week visiting here with Mrs. Jordan's mother, Mrs. Ella Newcomb.

Mrs. Paul Bauer and daughter, Marjorie, and son, Roger, went to Huron, Tuesday, to see a doctor. Roger is recovering from a cracked bone in his arm. Marjorie broke a bone in her foot.

Mr. and Mrs. August Peters, Betty Lou and June, and Leroy Regynski returned home Sunday evening from the Black Hills. Betty Lou remained in Rapid City where she plans to attend the National School of Business.

Miss Hazel Hobart left Friday for San Francisco where she will attend the national Legion Auxiliary meeting, where she goes as a delegate from this state. she will also visit relatives while on the west coast.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Nelson, who accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Bromwell and son, Robert, of Wessington Springs, returned to their home here Saturday evening after spending two weeks in the Black Hills.

According to a notice from the postoffice at Arlington, Va., to the News this week, Miss Mary Forbes has gone to Lisbon, Portugal, with the American Embassy again. That is the address given the News for her paper.

The News has been notified that a 4 lb. 12 oz. baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Kauffman at Mercy Hospital, Sacramento, Calif., on August 18, 1946, named Janet Odessa. Mrs. Kauffman is the former Florence Gutzmer, of Woonsocket.

Harold Kappel and two sons took over the garage, formerly owned by Kappel & Duncan, the first of the month. Siedschlaw Motor Company which had been occupying the building under lease, moved to their new building on north Dumont Ave. Kappel & Sons have the J. I. Case Machinery Company line of farm implements and Bob Kappel also has a radio repair shop in the building.

Wallace War left Sunday for Rapid City after spending two months at home. He received his discharge from the Navy in July. He will teach in the Physics Department of the School of Mines and Technology this year. James and Donald Ward will attend the School of Mines and Technology, James as a sophomore and Donald as a freshman, under the USNR V-5 Flight training program.

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Woonsocket News, Sep. 12, 1946
Sylvester Miller, age 49, brother of Max Miller, of Woonsocket, died at a hospital in Pierre, last Saturday. His funeral was Tuesday at his home at Polo, S.D. His mother, Mrs. Catherine Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Max Miller, and sons, Joe and Paul, of Woonsocket, Jack Miller, a brother from Arlington, Va., and his daughter, Caroline, and Mr. and Mrs. Milburn Johnson and daughter, Erlynn, of Sioux City, attended the funeral.

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Woonsocket News, Sep. 12, 1946
Dr. Frank Mansfield Loring, 85, of Howard, S. D., a pioneer physician and surgeon in Sanborn and Miner counties, died at a Sioux Falls hospital. He had been confined to his bed for three and a half months. Dr. Loring was born January 22, 1861, at Prince Edward Island, Canada, and came to Michigan at the age of eight with his mother, his father having died when he was a small child. He attended high school and business college at Kalamazoo and took his medical degree at the University of Michigan. Later he specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases and did post graduate work in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and New Orleans. His practice began in Sanborn and Miner counties when he was 24 years old. Dr. Loring lived in Artesian for 58 years and for the past three years at Howard. He was a member of the Lions club at Howard. The funeral services were held at 10 o'clock, Monday morning of this week at Sioux Falls, and interment made in the Woodlawn cemetery at that place.

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Woonsocket News, Sep. 12, 1946
Jacob Theis, 89 years old, the father of Mrs. Wm. Maher, was buried at the Catholic cemetery in Woonsocket today (Thursday) with Father Edward, of St. Wilfrid's church, officiating at the grave. funeral services were held at Farmer, S. D., and the body brought to Woonsocket for burial, beside his wife, and a son, Henry, who were buried here some years ago. Mr. Theis was the father of 17 children, 13 of which are still living. Mr. Theis spent many of his summers in Woonsocket at the Wm. Maher home. He passed away at the St. Joseph hospital in Mitchell last Friday. He had been confined to the hospital at several different times the past year, receiving medical and surgical attention.

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Sep. 19, 1946 Woonsocket News
Funeral services were held Monday morning at ten o'clock at St. Wilfrid's Catholic church in Woonsocket for John Moran, who met his death in an auto accident last Friday morning. He was buried in the family lot in the Catholic cemetery at Woonsocket. Rev. Edward Carraher conducted the funeral services. John, age 33, was the youngest son of Mrs. Matt Moran, of Woonsocket. He was a member of the St. Wilfrid's choir, of the Knights of Columbus, and of the American Legion. Both the Knights of Columbus and the American Legion attended the funeral services, with Legion services being held at the grave, and military honors given. He died Saturday morning in St. Joseph's hospital at Mitchell, where he was taken Friday morning following an accident at the railroad crossing on East Seventh street. His physician said he suffered a fractured skull and undetermined internal injuries in the accident. According to reports of other occupants of the car, they had returned from a dance at Ruskin Park, and was taking the members of their party to their homes when the accident occurred. They were driving east on East Seventh street, and according to Douglas Strand, driver of the car, he was blinded by light on an oncoming car when approaching the railroad crossing, which caused him to get too far over and hit the open rails, causing the car to turn over several times, throwing two of the passengers from the car, John being one of them. The car must have rolled over three or four times, as it came to rest near a big tree about 75 feet east of the railroad crossing. Fredrick and Matt Rowan, who were passengers of the car, as well as the driver, Douglas Strand escaped serious injury, while Joyce Morrison, also an occupant of the car, was badly jarred and shaken up, but apparently suffered no serious injury. she was also examined at a Mitchell hospital, but was released and came home Friday. The car, belonging to Strand, a Ford V-8, in which the occupants were riding, was a complete wreck. Pallbearers serving at the funeral and burial services were Jerome Hendrick, Leonard Dankey, Henry Collignon, Joe Kemptner, Bob Vetter and Tom McCall. The Basham Funeral Service was in charge of the body at the services.
Obituary John Mathew Moran was born in Woonsocket, February 17, 1913, and died September 14, 1946, at St. Josephs hospital in Mitchell, at the age of 33 years, 6 months, and 28 days. He graduated from Woonsocket high school with the class of 1930, at Notre Dame College, Mitchell, in 1932. He taught school in Corson county from 1932 to 1941, when he enlisted in the Navy on July 25, 1941, and he received his honorable discharge from the Navy, August 3, 1942. The past year he attended the University of Notre Dame, Ind. He leaves his mother, Mrs. Mary J. Moran, sisters, Clare, of Woonsocket; Mrs. Helen Schmitz and Mrs. Lloyd Tysdal, of Mitchell; brothers, Bernard F. and Francis C., of Woonsocket; Ed., of Thedford, Nebr.; Joe, of Grand Island, Nebr., and Virgil of Los Angeles, Calif. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the American Legion. Those from out-of-town attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moran and family, of Grand Island, Nebr.; Mrs. Helen Schmitz and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Tysdal, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Busch and daughter, Kathryn, Mrs. Earl Clements, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Callan, Mrs. Frank Lymmons, Ed. Sabastian, and Don McKillip, all of Mitchell; Mr. and Mrs. Celston Busch and Miss Patricia Shanley, of Luverne, Minn.; Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Schlimgen, Mr. and Mrs. tony McEldowney, of Huron; Mr. and Mrs. M. P. McEldowney, Frank McEldowney, Mr. and Mrs. Mike McEldowney and son, James, of Wessington Springs.
Card of Thanks We wish to express our sincere thanks to the American Legion, Knights of Columbus, friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us at the time of the death of our son and brother, and for the many spiritual and floral bouquets. --Mrs. Matt Moran and family