The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-14

n sisseton steam laundry burned.
The building was insured, but the loss
on the laundry is complete.
a car of buffalo from the Philip
herd was shipped from Pierre TO Chi.
cago, where the buffalo will be slaugh.
tered and placed on the market for
the holiday trade. Seven of the ami.
mails were sen in the shipment, and
all wer5 taken at a good price.
The equipment for the gymnasium
at the Northern normal and industrial
school at Aberdeen has been ordered.
1t includes a very complete equipment.
which will be placed in the basement
of the new mechanic arts building,
which will be used for gymnasium pur-
poses for the school.
BY order of the authorities, all slot
machines in Pierre have been taken
out, and it is announced they will be
kept out in the future, but such moves
in the past have not been long lived,
and it is a question whether the pres
ent ban will remain in force any long
err than those III the past.
The receipts Of the Office of the Sec
rotary of state for November were ST.
90S. IS. OF this amount s1,424 was re-
ceived as fees from corporations.
While this class of business is not so
heavy as it was several years ago, it is
keeping up as well as was anticipated
under the new fee law of last winter.
Some three years ago Joseph Rem.
illiard brought suit against George
Anttrier in the circuit court at Elk
Point for the possession of a farm
near Jefferson, valued at $4,000. He
was defeated, and the state supreme
court now affirms the decision of the
circuit court, closing a long and bitter
contest.
At a meeting OF the state capitol
commission with Architect Bell and
Contractor Lepper, it was decided to
stop all further work on the founda-
tion of the capitol building for the win
ter. 1t would have taken about a week
more of good weather to- complete the
work, but on account of the extreme
cold it was considered inadvisable to
go farther until next spring.
While playing with ONE other boys
on a pond situated Immediately east
of the plant of the Sioux Falls Brew.
ing company, the ~six-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. August Peterson Of
Sioux Falls broke through the ice and
was drowned. The pond contains
about twenty feet of water, being an
abandoned stone quarry that had been
filed with rain and snow.
Before adjournment, the Brown
County Educational association at its
annual session in Aberdeen elected
the following officers: President, Miss
Alice Reagan Columbia: vice presi-
dent. Miss Emma X. Stewart, Bath:
secretary-treasurer, c. H. Greed, War
ner. Resolutions We're adopted ia
voring State Supt. Ramer's plan for
the moral education of pupils of the
public schools.
Justice McCord. in the Office of a
Pierre hotel, marriedJames Wiley
Mott and Lydia Durkin, both OF Lyman
county. The bridegroom was a genu-
inc type of the fast-disappearing cow
boy. and put up some protest against
removing his spurs while the cere-
mony was performed. After the cere-
mony he purchased a ring for the
bride on the threat of the justice TO
annul the marriage in case of failure
on his part TO make the purchase.
AS a result of the decision of the
postoffce department residents Of some
of Aberdeen's suburbs will have to seek
admission to the corporate limits or
else do without free mail delivery. Ow-
ing to the fact that the present force
Of mail carriers in Aberdeen is over
worked, the department has forbidden
free delivery by the carriers outside
the city limits. Postmaster Williams
hopes to induce the department TO put
on another carrier.
The annual meeting of the Ancient
Order OF United WOrkmen has been
held in Lead. The following officers
were elected: J. 4. Gallagher, mas
ter workman: Joseph Prinn, foreman:
David Roberts, overseer; William
Lang. recorder; J. E. Peters, inancier;
Ed Valentine. receiver; John Zurich,
guide; G. G. Allison, inside watch:
Isaac Lehto, outside watch; Fred Pen
nington. trustee; Doctors Holvey,
Freeman and Nilsson, medical exam
iners.
The annual meeting of the Ministe-
rial association for the Aberdeen dis
trict of the Methodist Episcopal
church was held at Aberdeen. Among
the subjects on the program were
Opportunities for and Results of Per-
sonal Evangelism" Rev. w. D. Decide