The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-11-23
South Dakota News


All records for Shipment to the
United States assay office at Dead
wood from the mines of the Black
Hills district for July, August, Sep
TENDER and October have been brok-
en-. six and a quarter tons OF gold
bullion having been sent to the mint
at Denver. The total valuation was
a little more than $2,750,000.
Representatives of the commercial
clubs of Platte. Geddes, Lake Andes
and Avon met with the Wagner Com
mercial club at Wagner to take united
action in relation to better train ser
vice on the Platte line OF the Chica-
20, Milwaukee and 81. Paul railroad.
II d. James, of Wagner, was elected
chairman, and Fred Smith. of Platte.
was elected secretary and trea-
surer. Committees were ap-
and treasurer. Committees were APP
pointed and a united action viii be
taken for a more satisfactory train
service. A committee vas appointed
to interview the officials of the road
and resolutions adopted. The present
train service is such that the people
do not get the mail the day II arrives
and express is not delivered until the
next day. After the business meet
ing a splendid tnree-course banquet
was served by the Wagner CONNER
cial club to the visiting representa-
tives.
The Milwaukee terminal buildings
at Aberdeen are about ready for oc-
~cupation, and will all be tenanted be-
fore December 10. These buildings
represent a total cost OF about $685.
600, and additional improvements ag-
gregation upwards OF 100000 are
planned for next spring. These build
ings constitute a passenger station,
costing about 81 5000; a freight de-
pot, costing about $4,000: a round
house costing about $4,000; a coal
ing station costing $4,000, and mis-
cellaneous buildings %aggregating
about s217. 600. A twenty-stall ad-
dition to the ~roundhouse will be built
in the spring, which. together with the
trackage necessary, will amount TO
100000.
Ten thousand dollars was raised
al Huron last week 10 complete the
endowment fund of $500, 900 for Huron
college. The amount is one of the
largest eve raised in this section of
the northwest for educational insti-
tutions and is the cause of great re-
joicing.
A fire at Aberdeen did several hun
bred dollars worth of damage TO the
old Sherman hotel building. The fire
was started by the ~overturning of a
bottle OF cleaning fluid in a %pantorium
on the main floor. The flames quick
~ spread TO the rooms upstairs,
where considerable damage was done.
The Adams Express company and the
office of the National Cash Register
company We're also endangered.
The Commercial club of Aberdeen
met to discuss the Agricultural Indus
trial Exposition of South Dakota,
which it has been planned to locate
in that city. The proposition was de-
finately accepted, and the president of
the club authorized to appoint a spe-
cial committee of twenty-five repre-
sentative business men of the city to
canvass the business interests of
Aberdeen and secure subscriptions
toward the stock company. 1t is
the plan to organize a stock com
pany with 100000 capital, erect a
large, permanent building, and con-
duct the exposition all the year
around for the benefit of the thou
sands of travellers that stop over in
there each month on their way either
east or west.
John II. Miller and wife of Huron
celebrated their 50th wedding anniver-
sary at their home and were as
sisted by members of the family and a
few intimate friends. In 1881 they
came to Huron and located on a farm
adjoining the city.
In a contest for chief engineer of
the Deadwood fire department, with
six candidates in the field, William
Sasse, one of the first children to be
born in Deadwood, was elected at the
annual meeting. The reports of of
ficers showed that there had been
twenty-five fires the past twelve
months there with a total loss Of s1S,,
600, all fully covered by insurance.
The resignation of ]. w. Cambell,