The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-05-03

| Grandma Steele was found dead IN
the yard at her home In Vermillion.
She was eighty-one.
The proposition to bond the city OF
| Arlington for a system Of waterworks
carried by an overwhelming majority.
Mrs. William Montague Of vermil.
lion was badly injured in a runaway.
She was thrown from a wagon and
severely bruised about the head.
A government inspector has exam.
ined and passed Upon the new trans.
fer boat at Pierre, the w. d. Walden.
and she has been given a commission
to ply pom the waters Of the Missouri.
Work has been commenced on the
development Of Aldrich Park at Aber-
deem, named after Mayor Aldrich, and
which will be Aberdeen's first park.
The work is being one under the d.
rection of the park committee of the
city council.
The grand lodge Of the A. o. Y. W.
has appropriated $500 from it's general
fund for the relief Of the sufferers at
San Francisco, and Grand Master T.
NJ. Simmons of Huron has issued a
call requesting subordinate lodges to
contribute to the relief fund.
Ambrose Lester, a colored veteran
of the Northern army in the war OF
the Rebellion, and an old pioneer OF
the Black Hills, has just passed away
at the county hospital at Lead. He
was a member of the local G A. R. en-
campment and also OF the Black Hills
Pioneer, association.
In the interclass meet of the Aber.
deem high school. to select a team 10
enter the inteT-scholastic contest at
Sioux Falls in May, the senior class
scored SO points, the juniors AZ, the
sophomores q and the freshmen L.
The team will be chosen from among
the winners in the local contest.
The rock cut on the Northwestern
extension has been completed and
rails are being laid through Fort
Pierre. The first two bridges across
Bad river are completed. the next two
are we'll along and the r~ail-laying now
will be pushed as rapidly as possible
up the valley of the Bad river.
John Wade. grand chancellor Of the
Knights of Pythias, has issued a call
urging members of the order in this
jurisdiction 70 contribute to the relief
OF brother knights in San Francisco.
Mayor Aldrich, acting in conjunction
with Gov. Elrod, calls upon Aberdeen
citizens TO contribute 10 the relief or
the sufferers on the coast.
Work is being pushed on the Min
neapolis & St. Louis grade, bot south
east and northwest Of Aberdeen
Thirty teams and fifty men are at
work a few miles southeast OF ADer-
deem, and the steam grader COM
menced work this morning. North
west of Aberdeen twenty-five teams
and forty men are at work.
In Judge Gaffey's court at Miller,
BENJAMIN F. Wenzel was found guilty
Of assault with intent to commit in
cest on his thirteen-year-old daughter,
and sentenced to four years in the
penita ntiary. Grant Derlinger, tried
twice for assault on a thirteen-year'
old girl, pleaded guilty this time and
was given one year in the pentten'
tiary.
Mrs. Rebecca Chute, better known
as Grandma Chute, died at her home
in Spearfsh. aged lightweight years.
She was the mother of Capt. Gray or
Spearfsh, having married again after
he death Of her first husband, Joseph
Gray. She came to the Black Hills IN
1879, was a devoted member OF the
Methodist church and highly esteemed
by all who knew her for her many
kind acts.
Frihop Peterson and Frank kribos,
aged fourteen and twelve, respective
", ran away from the Lutheran or
phans' home at Beresford. They wan
dered about for two days and finally
ended up lear the banks OF the MIS-
souri, river nine miles southwest OF
Vermirlion. Being hungry. they dug
IN some wild parsnips and ate them.
The result was that both lads became
pretty sick and it required the services
of a physician.
With from $50 to 300 men already
engaged ana IuOI6 W VIC
the next ten days, excellent progress
Is being made on the irrigation pro-
iect at Belle Fourche. Orman & Crook
are in the preparatory stage OF build
ing the big dam and will not be
through with this part Of the work for
some time. They have just received
$4,000 worth Of machinery, including
three seventy-fve-ton steam shovels'
which are in use. All the contractors
at work are not only doing satisrac-
tory work, but are making money.
Eishty-seven years old, fighting in
court to save her property that she
might not be left penniless, was the
experience Of Mrs. Catherine Drins,
a widow. Fifteen years ago hersell
and husband invested their mes saV-
ings OF S.. 900 in ST. Lawrence town
bonds. The village paid the interest
-..~,ntIr for eight wears and tnen