The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-08-24


installed in the local office last week.
The line will be used for the running
of trains, including the operation OF
the block system. Assistant Super
%intendent Stewart was hire Saturday
inspecting the new line, making the
trip in a motor car, which travelled
the rails as easily as a passenger
train.
Sanford Dodge and his company will
Der 7th in Gilbert Parker's The
Right-of-way." Mr.. Dodge used to
make Brookings regularly, but has
lot been here for several years, and
his admirers here will be glad of the
opportunity to see him again. He
formerly played only S~hakesperian
roles. but is now playing in modern
dramas.
A wedding Of more than ordinary
interest took place at Sinai last Sat
urday, when Ole and Chris Bern
married Misses Ida and Emma Slime.
Edward Slime, a brother of the young
ladies'. will be married to a Bryant
young lady this week. All of the
southwestern part OF the county and
their many friends will extend con
sratulations.
The packing companies and live
stock commission men at the Sioux
City stock yards will give $3.50 in
cash premiums for the best carload of
fat cattle, best carload of feeders and
for the carload which averages up the
best after being dressed. to be eX-
hibited at the International Live Stock
Fair in Sioux City the week of Sep
TENDER IS. Entries in these lots will
close September /.
r. Mangan, a we'll known farmer of
Parnell township, met with a severe
loss by fire last Thursday morning,
when lightning struck and set fire
to his big barn. Eleven head of horses
and some cattle persisted and grain,
farm machinery, harness and other
property were destroyed. The prop
erty burned was valued at about four
thousand dollars, with only twelve
hundred dollars insurance.
E. H. Carlisle came up from Brook
ings last Saturday evening for a few
days of recreation at Lake P~oinsett,
ir quest of the finny tribe. He sue
ceeded in catching a few black bass
and returned home on the morning
train Tuesday. Mr.. Carlisle is the
only person in this part of the state
that is ~persevering to stick long
enough to capture any Of that class
Of fish to be found in P%Oinsett. 1t
certainly requires lots of patience and
he is gifted in that line.-Estelline
Tribune.
Carl Aaron, a young man living
north of Arlington in the western edge
of this county, had a narrow escape
from death by lightning last week. He
was blowing in the field at the time
and the bolt struck him in the back of
the head, going down his back and
burning the clothes from his body.
He was unconscious for several hours,
but it is believed that the terrible
shock will do him no permanent in
jury. That the bolt struck him a
glancing blow is believed to be the
only reason that he was not instant
ly killed.
II. w. Snelson, the contractor, has
the cellar dug for a fine new resi-
dence on Eighth street, just west of
Medary avenue Across the street
T. L. Chappell's two new houses are
nearing completion and the three resi-
dences will make quite an improve
in that ~neighborhood. The Chap
pell houses are of the bungalow type,
modern throughout, and Mr..
Chappell tells us that he has already
had a large number of inquiries and
will have no trouble in renting them.
Prof. y. f. Hanson's fine new home
in the same neighborhood is nearing
completion.
A B~roOkings man hands us the fol
item from the Independent
Register of B~roadhead, Wis. The item
is so far from the truth that it is
funny and the only wonder is that
an editor in a state as close to South
Dakota as Wisconsin is would have the
gall or the ignorance to print it: Poor
South Dakota is certainly suffering
from the drought. 1t is doubtful! If
that state will outgrow its bad reputa-
ton in many years. The last cruel
thrust We have heard was a sign pain
ted on an Immigrant wagon which is
it's way back to Richland county. 1t
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