The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-11-09
South Dakota News

Dakota day at the Chicago Land show
was given as November 26, when it
should have been November %.
Gov. Wesley has, on recommends.
ton Of the state pardon board, granted
a pardon to b. Perkins, sent from
Lawrence county on a charge of as,
sault with a deadly weapon.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cifc Railway commission showing
operating OF $l44,2 91 in this
state, with operating expenses of
$1S6,O39, or a net loss Of $41,748.
A mountain lion, measuring seven
feet from tip to tip and weighing $50
pounds, was seen near Sturgis last
week by Arthur Rupe while out deer
hunting. The animal Is thought to be
20 years old.
The school census OF this state for
the present year by figures gathered
In the state land department shows
pupils in the state to the number Of
174,037. The college attendance in
the state for the commencement date
of last year was 5,777.
In a special election Deadwood vot-
ed to buy n site for a public park on
which an auditorium will at once be
erected. The principal pledged con
trlbutor to the auditorium is Mrs.
Edward II. Hartman, Of New York.
The park and auditorium will cost
over $4,000.
Mrs. Eva May Kreiter was senten-
ced to four years in the South Dakota
~penitentiary at Sioux Falls at Aber-
deem last week for killing her hus-
band, Philip Kreiter. This is the
maximum sentence under the state
law for second degree manslaughter,
of which she was convicted.
Thomas Page is dead at the home
of his daughter at Lead, aged "a, in
firmities of age being the cause. Nh.
Page, who was a native of England,
Cullc lloii WjotOholh a. year dSO, duu
leaves N and daughters at Walton,
Baraboo and Hillsboro. Wis. The re
mains were shipped to homework,
Wis.
John Thompson, one OF the best
known old time residents Of that sec
ton. died at his home at Camp Crook
after an attack OF pneumonia. Mr..
Thompson was for many years largely
interested in the live stock business
in the northern part of the state, and
later went into real estate. He was
a heavy landholder.
Woonsocket Is to have electric
lights, the work OF installation having
begun even before the adoption Of
the ordinance granting the franchise
to the company. The council assured
the promoters that there would not
be the slightest trouble in the adop-
tion Of the ~orginance. The company
will get a twenty-year franchise.
A Commercial club, which will be
known as the Beresford Booster club,
was organized at Beresford by the
election Of Col. ]. w. Reedy as presi-
dent, F. ID. Kriebs secretary, George
Bruehler treasurer and August Erie
burg and Ole Ofstad as vice presi-
dents. The purpose OF the ~organiza-
ton Is to enlarge the opportunities OF
the town and surrounding country.
A new church for the German Bap-
fist society has just been completed
at Parkston, and dedicated with APP
propriate ceremonies. The sermon
was delivered by Rev. H. Wedel, Of
Chicago, while several other pastors
from this state assisted Rev. F.
Herman in the ~dedicatory exercises.
The church property was dedicated
practically free from debt.
Gen. George w. Carpenter, who
built the first house on the present
sight of WATERFOWL, and for thirty
years surveyor of Codington county
and deputy state surveyor, and a
former state commander of the G.. A.
R., died at his home at Watertown
Thursday aged rs years. The funeral
was held Friday forenoon at 10 o'clock
from the Methodist church.
A campaign has been instituted at
Yankton to raise 100000 for the first
wing of the new hospital on Mt. Marty.
1t is anticipated that $4,000 Of this
will be contributed by citizens of the
city of Yankton and the remainder
raised by outside friends. Father
Placididus, who is at the head OF the
institution, states that there was an
increase of 80 per cen in the bust
ness OF the hospital last year.
Fifty years ago Mr.. and Mrs. G,
Pfeiffer. OF Kadoka, s. d.. were united
in marriage at Agency. To-, and the
avapt Voc annronriatelv celebrated al