The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-09-28
South Dakota News


A meeting of the South Dakota
board of pharmacy for the examina
ton of candidates for registration and
general business will be held at Aber
deem October IL and II.
The Germania hotel at Yankton
one of the oldest hotels in the state,
has changed hands and will be re
opened on October /, by Paul Schmidt,
who purchased the property from
George Berberick.
Despite the unusually dry summer,
there have been few forest fires OF
any consequence in the Black Hills,
due largely to the lookout system es-
tablished by Supervisor Kelleter and
to the effects of the Burlington road
with its gasoline patrol cars.
George Diyely, a Perkins county
bad man." will be brought to Aber-
deem for safe keeping. Dively was
recently captured in Iowa for forgery,
and lodged in the Perkins county Jail.
His frequent attempts to escape from
that institution caused the authorities
to conclude to place him in a stronger
jail until circuit court OF Perkins coun-
ty assemblies.
Joseph A. Wipf, a prominent farmer
and stockman residing sonth of
Bridgewater while attempting to kill
a strange dog recently with a shot
gun. accidentally shot his ~10-year-old
son, who happened to be concealed
back of a clump of bushes. Ten shot
lodged in the flesh in the lower por-
ton of the back, inficting a painful
but not fatal wound.
There are few men in South Da-
kota, if any, who can beat the record
of E. f. Hudson, of Yankton, for con
tinual service on a board of education,
Mr.. Hudson's resignation brings to
light that he first became a member
of the board in May, 1886, and has
served ever since-twenty-five years
and four months in all. He resigns
because OF poor health.
Peter Rounds, a Greek, has just
been lodged in the Sioux Falls peni-
tertiary to serve a term of n and
a half years for robbery. While
working with a section gang on a
railroad in Pennington county he stole
$145 from his bunkmates and fled to
New York City. He was a~pprehended
on the steamship pier as he was about
to board a steamer and was brought
back to South Dakota.
Stock shipments from the western
half Of the state and from Wyoming
points are expected to equal those of
1910, as they are now about even for
the same time last year. Thus far
the Northwestern railroad reports
having sent east 5000 car of cattle
anu SuetD anu are HOW SClulbS dpOut
500 cars per week. The shipments
from Aladdin, Wyo., are heavier than
usual, where owners are shipping
Walter w. O'Brien, of Huron, who
killed his 4-week-old child has been
adjudged insane, and will be removed
to the hospital at Yankton as soon
as possible. The commissioners of
insanity made a careful study of the
case before rendering their decision,
and in this they were aided by two
physicians, who pronounce the mala-
dy of AZ incurable form. The wife
of the demented mar is Frustrated
with grief.
AS an indication that Lawrence
county is prosperous, the present con
of the banks, according TO the
last statement, is unusually good. The
total deposits in the eight banks of
the county is s3,75 900, made up al
most entirely of deposits of indivi-
1uals. OF this amount the First Ma
tional bank of Lead is ahead with
81 ,346,2S7.4S, and the First National