Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-03-30
SOUTH DAKOTA.

The site has been secured and work
will commence on a new roller mill az
Toronto.
Fred II. Mettler Of Hutchinson coun.
ty has bought the Jacob Heib farm OF
$50 acres for $1,000.
II. A. Fowler Of Heart Prairie, wis.
and A. G. Schmidt have established
music house at Madison.
]. c. Bennett of Sanborn county sold
' 200 head Of sheep recently to ). A.
Stewart for 1920.
Rev. L. Leysne. pastor Of the Luther
an church at Summit, died OF consump-
Z ton recently.
Ulmer & Holt are reporte dto De ar
| ranging matters with view to start
ing a new bank at Memo, Hutchinson
| county.
Jacob Mettler of Memo has 1900
bushels Of wheat stin in his granary.
Many other Hutchinson county farm
ers are said to have full granaries.
Sioux City parties have been mt
White Lake recently, disposing OF
large number Of young cattle to the
farmers and stockmen of that section.
During the first twelve days of the
present month 1900 head Of young
cattle were shipped into Jerrauld coun-
, ty.
Boyd d. Milan. who last year spent
several months in Alaska, is now at
! Miller hut expects TO return TO the
gold fields about May l.
w. B. Wolcott has bought a ranch to
the north Of Kimball, in Brule COUNTY.
upon which he expects TO engage quite
extensively in the stock business.
Three carloads of immigrant goods
arrived in Brookirgs last week tor PAR
ties from other states, who have par
chased farms near that place.
Cattle thieves are operating araun2
| Woonsocket. Farmers. in GrG@s 70 pro
tect themselves. may be conp He'd u
brand their cattle.
Rrule county lanGS are selling rap
idly this season. Desirable lands are
, becoming scarce, ana good quarters
are now selling for as high as %l,G1A.
Henry ReEakc. well known ana
! prominent farmer and stCc!iEal ct
! Wessington Springs, has bought aa
! improved farm two miles west vi Al
pena.
! Ray Cunningham. Of Melrose town
ship. Grant county. has hougat the OH
Reuben NGYtGu tree claim, the south
east quarter CT section 80. Grant Cen.
ter township.
o. Waldorf has sold his lGpGcre
! farm, two miles north Of Hudson. 70
Lars Heller Of Norway township, for
5000. Mr.. Heller will move Oh tie
place in the spring.
Emil Zimmerman cf Madison has
been awarded the contract 10 build Il
new Catholic church and parsonage at
, Ramona. The church will be 40X6J,
with a tower eighty feet high.
II. II. Rudd of Yankton. owner of a
string OF blooded horses, lest his fam
Gus stallion. Juryman. registered 21l4,
! by diphtheria. The animal was valued
! by Mr.. Rudd at $4,000.
L. r. Slawson. hardware dealer of
| Watertown, has made an assignment.
II. L. Eddy is the assignee. a Sioux
City firm is the principal creditor. He
| will probably pay in full.
The house and contents Of Nathan
f.. Carl Of Watertown were completely
| destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,000; insur-
| ance $500. The origin Of the fire Is
thought to have been a defective flue.
Wisconsin parties are erecting q
| plant for cheese factory about six
| miles south of Bloomington, in Charles
! Mix county. The proprietors are guar
anteeing 60 per cent to the patrons for
/ their milk.
w. III. Holmes has been bound over
to the district court at Miller in the
sum Of $4OO, on the charge Of threaten
, irg and chasing Clint Haskins with n
broomstick. Both men are prominent
farmers.
! The supervisors Of Willow township,
Mcpherson county, have set good ex-
! ample by voting tax for fire-breaks
around the township. Other town.
ships in that vicinity will daubtless
take similar action.
| Residents OF Beadle county will
! hereafter leave their six-shooters at
home when going out in public, or car
~ them in belt resident of that
county having just been fired $40 and
costs for carrying concealed weapons.
! McCook county is having an immi-
grafton boom. A local paper states
that week ago ten families arrived at
Canistota from Illinois, Indiana and
Iowa, bringing with them eleven car
loads of housekeeping and farming
parapherpaha,
/. The Armour Creamery company has
decided to enlarge its plant by estab-
fishing complete creamery at Harris
| on, instead Of the separator station
now maintained there. 1t Is expected
that the new creamery will be in op-
Grafton in the near future.
John Callinan. one Of the oldest con-
ductors on the Chicago, Milwaukee Il
st. Paul road, died at his residence in
Madison. Two Of his children, who re-
side in Minneapolis, and one son at Al
bert Lea, Mimi, had been summoned
and were with him at the end.
The Madison broom factory has sold
its entire line Of machinery, which will
be erected again in Bryant, and new
and more modern machinery will re-
place 1t at Madison. Madison brooms
have already ACQUIRED great reputa-
ton.