The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-16

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III the C1i1UdlSh WI -
! wood. morally as well as physically
Mavor Adams has issued orders to the
pOlice to close the red light resorts
in the lower part of town and to round
I'D the occupants and either 1orce
them out of town or give them loug
Jail sentences.
Otto Uhlig, a pioneer Of the Black
! Hills. is dead after a brief illness at
the age OF eighty-fye years. He was
taken i'll on his homestead IN Butte
, county. near Lennon, and died before
any Of his family could reach him.
His wife is postmistress at Wildwood
! and she. with five children. survive.
w. B. Phelps, who for some years
has heen heavily interested in the
MCntrose bank, has sold his interest
to Prof. r. D. Burr, who for the past
two years has been principal OF the
| public schools at that place. Prof.
Burr will give up his school work and
in future Will be actively connected
with the bank.
As the result of several recent meet
ings an association has been organlZ-
ed in Brookings county for the pur-
pose of purchasing and consolidating
all the farmers telephone lines IN
that county. The plan provides that
after the consolidation has been eff
fected the lines will have a common
headquarters and will be under one
management. The lines Of the associ-
alton will cover the entire county.
AS a lOld-up man the Sioux Indian
is a failure. While Gus Premus was
on his way home from a business trip
TO Webster he was waylaid by two
Sisseton Sioux indians, Edward Roy
and Andrew Noble. Premus made his
escape. and, securing the assistance
OF an acquaintance the two gave chase
ana captured the d~uSky.hued hold-up
men. The prisoners were taken to
Webster and turned over to the Sher-
if.
Under IN agreement with the enc
al government the forest rangers in
the Black Hills look after the dead
and down timber on the state school
lands, and dispose of it in the same
manner and under the same regula-
tons as control the disposal of such
timber on the government lands. The
stale LAND department has received a
remittance OF 500 as the revenue
from one section for the past six
months.
Sunday, July &c, has been deter
mined upon as the date for the dedi-
cation of a fine new German Lutheran
church building, which is nearing com
pletion at Bancroft. The ed
ifice is one Of the finest Of its
hind in that part of the state. The
dedication exercises will be Of a
somewhat elaborate character, A
number of German Lutheran clergy
men from that part of the state will
be present to aid in the exercises.
| ~ tCtoiu "hlSh Nduy lbs bCCh
made by the new creamery which was
placed in operation at White only a
little over a week ago prove that the
institution will become one of the
leading creameries of the state. Dur
ing the first six days that the cream
cry was in operation about two tons
Of butter was manufactured and sold
at good prices. The farmers in this
vicinity are giving the creamery loyal
support. The manager of the cream
cry has had years of experience and
is tire,ess in his efforts to make the
institution an important factor in the
prosperity of the farmers who patron
ize it.
With the returns from the action of
the July meetings of county commits
sioners yet to be heard from the state
wolf bounty for the past fiscal year is
already ov~erdrawn, and as the July
meetings have always allowed a large
number of claims, on account of the
killing of wolf pups in the early sum
mer, the indications are that the
amount called for will go as high as
SIT 900, with an appropriation of $13,-
900 to meet it. Up to the present the
claims filed have reached $14.356, and
holders of wolf bounty certificates
will be compelled to accept a cut rate
on their claims, whatever the amount
of bounty allowed for this month.
Henry Bremen, who lives on the
outskirts of Canton, claims to be the
champion potato raiser of that part O
the state. IN support of the claim he
points out hat he has just sold from
a large patch of potatoes forty bush
els. which brought a price equal t.
S270 an acre. This is probably one o
the most valuable crops ever produced
in that vicinity, and the value of the
crop of a single season will pay TO
the land many times over. BrenneI
now has replanted the patch from
which he sold the potatoes and ex
poets to gather a second crop later il
the season, thus adding materially t.
the productive value of his land.