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May 29, 1929
YANKTON, S.D. — With the opening next Saturday of the Drier Creamery Company plant at No. 315 Broadway, Yankton, that city will have three independent creameries.
The new firm is composed of Harry Drier and Miss Florence Peters, both of whom have long been associated with the older institution there.
Mr. Drier is superintendent of the manufacturing department and Miss Peters as office manager.
They have now united in the organization of the new company which has purchased a building on Broadway which has been thoroughly remodeled to suit needs of the new institution and has been equipped with new and modern machinery for the manufacture of butter and other dairy products, according to the very latest processes.
Mr. Drier will devote all of his energies to the manufacturing end of the business, while Miss Peters will be business and office manager.
Both are widely known among the producers of Cedar County among whom they have a host of friends who are encouraging this new venture.
Another important change in the Yankton business district occurred this week when a New York chain store organization purchased the Dowling department store building which will be wrecked and a new modern business block erected on the site. The Dowling store is one of the oldest in the city. They are announcing a closing out sale.
May 29, 1929
HARTINGTON — Just 20 years ago this morning, the Very Rev. Father Ferdinand Schnuettgen celebrated his first Mass as pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church.
In that year, May 30 came on a Sunday, and with the celebration of the first Mass, Father Schnuettgen began his official duties in Hartington, to which he had come from Howells the previous Friday.
During his 20 years in Hartington, Father Schnuettgen has become the most intimate friend and adviser of many families, members of which he has baptized, taught, celebrated Mass at their Communion, heard confessions, seen graduated from high school and even officiated at their marriage ceremonies and later baptized their babies and welcomed them into the parochial school.
Speaking of the marriages he has performed, Father Schnuettgen says, “I have made many people in the County happy. Maybe this happiness hasn’t lasted, I don’t know and I don’t have anything to do with that, but I have started them out happy, anyway.”
Father Schnuettgen has baptized about 1,000 babies in the last 20 years, an average of about 50 having been baptized each year. He also believes he has married at least 300 couples in the last 20 years.
Father Schnuettgen was born in Germany and attended school there. As a young man of 19, he went to Genoa, Italy to study for the priesthood.
He studied five years there and was ordained in 1898 and said his first Mass at Genoa. Having been “adopted” by the Bishop of Omaha, he came to Nebraska shortly after his ordination. Although the land was strange to him, he soon felt at home.
In 1900 he came to Constance where he was in charge of the parish for half a year, then was sent to Howells, where he remained until being sent to guide Holy Trinity in Hartington in 1909. The thing in which Father Schnuettgen is most interested in at present is the building of a school addition.
