Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-04-20
SOUTH DAKOTA.


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Thousands of acres of Gregory Coun-
ty lands were filed on during the
month Of March.
Terry is to have new Catholic par
sOnage. The new structure Will be
neat and comfortable.
f. NJ. Larrison, ex-treasure of Clark
county, died last week and was buried
Monday.
Over $4,000 in taxes were paid into
the Moody County treasury during
March
w. Fl. Brearly of Buffalo, county re-
Gently killed wild cat weighing twen-
ty-one pounds.
During the last twelve months to-
tai of over 700 carloads of grain and
stock were shipped from flandreau.
The Western Methodist Book Con-
cern has donated $50 volumes to the
Black Hills College at Hot Springs.
During the past twelve months the
little town of Salem, McCook county,
has made improvements aggregating
S80,175 in value.
The village Of Erwin, Kingsbury
county, is experiencing a lively build
ing boom, In common with the whole
surrounding country.
The great Homestake Gold Mining
Company Of Lead will make improve
ments during the year. requiring the
expenditure of Sl,000,OO0.
Sanborn county farmers find it diff
cult to get help this spring, and have
been Offering higher wages than has
been paid for many years.
Several bids for sites for the govern
ment building at Aberdeen, have been
prepared and sent forward to the
treasury department at Washington.
Pear Eslick, a young man, lost two
fingers of his right hand by an acci-
dental discharge of his gun while duck
hunting near Elk Point.
Franch Burch, a prominent attorney
of Hill City, has sold his practice and
will remove to Nermillion, this state,
where he will locate permanently.
Building Contractor Shaw of the
hustling town of DeSmet employs four
assistants. and has more work than he
can conveniently attend TO.
Fred Richards. of Van lernilt. has
gone to Arkansas to buy stock. He re-
Gently sold one hundred head of two
year-old steers at S3I per mead.
Postoffice Inspector Chas. T. Mccoy,
who was recently assigned to office
duty In Chicago. has returned ard re-
sumed his work in South Dakota.
The Lake Madison Chautauqua AS
sociation is now free from debt, re-
leases having recently been recorded
of all claims and mortgages held
against II.
Watertown people are confident that
more business will be transacted in
that hustling and progressive town
this year than during any year in the
towns history.
The Eureka Touring mill has been
undergoing extensive repairs and i'm
provements, and is now prepared to
resume business with an increased ca
pacity.
The Hay Creek Coal Company Is
working about twenty-five men at this
time and is making occasional ship
ments to meet the demand In the
Black Hills towns.
1t is reported that every acre Of
plowed land In Gregory county will be
sowed to crops this spring, md that
many hundreds of acres Of raw lands
will be broken out.
An amateur Mulhattan, in Faulk
county, tells Of having recently been
out in his field pulverizing, while the
following day the temperature regis
tered 40 degrees below zero.
The federal grand jury at Sioux
Falls reported no bill against DR.. Jo-
seph Hartman, accused Of selling pro-
prietary medicine without afilxing rev.
enue stamps.
The home Of |. S. Boynton. of War
rem township Clark county. was burn
cd last week. Loss Oh house, $500,
and on contents, $3.50 About 1,500
pounds Of flour were burned
NJ. L. Haley has just closed term as
Instructor in the South Dakota Dairy
School, and has now gone from Brook
ings to Woonsocket, where he takes
charge of the creamery for the season
of 1899
The secretary of the Commercial
Club Of Sturgis recently received ten
mall sacks of sugar beet seed from
the Department of Agriculture, which
will bee distributed among the farmers
Of Meade county.
A beer keg got into the Deadwood
city sewer and caused such an obstruc-
ton that water famine was threat
ened. 1t Is believed, however. that no
great Inconvenience would have been
experienced In any case.
At a meeting of the Spearfish Cream
cry Company, il was decided to open
the creamery plant for business on
the second Monday in May. This Is
the largest and most successful cream
cry In the Hills.
It's an iii wind that blows nobody
some good. Lyman county has recent
ly received state warrant for the
sum of 81, ,403.45 on account of expens-
es incurred In the trial of the Phelps
murder case.
Cone and Snooks have established a
new brick yard on the farm OF w. G.
Cone, mile and half west Of De
Smet. The clay moulds come from the
kiln as hard as iron, and of a color
similar tO tha hpst Milwaukee, brick