The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-12-21

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ecutiye committee, c. z. Bryant, OF
Huron; H. J. Gaeson, Of Aberdeen;
G.. M. Bailey, OF Redield.
In a period of but a few days a
Castlewood buyer paid the farmers
near there 81 ,969 for hogs and turk
eys, thus showing how diversified
farming pays.
A movement is on foot at White
Lake 10 make into a fine park the
land surrounding the lake from which
the town is named. 1t will be made
into a hunting, fishing and general
pleasure resort.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Herried
have appointed a purchasing agent to
buy seed wheat, as well as feed. Each
| farmer notifies the agent OF the
amount he needs, and the latter does
the rest and better seed and better
prices can be secured in this way.
After attending a moving picture
| show where a hanging scene was
shown in some wild west pictures,
the ~seven-year-old son of VIM. Stier
OF Sioux Falls placed a rope abound
his fve-year-old sisters neck and was
drawing her up by means OF a strong
hook in the kitchen, when his mother
came in just in time to save the little
girl.
Paul Halbmeier OF Flandreau, has
5000 bushels OF corn. When Wimple,
the expert corn man from Lincoln
county, was at Flandreau four years
ago. Mr.. Halbmeier got one ear OF
his corn and from this single parent
ear he has raised the 5000 bushels,
besides having sold many bushels of
seed corn the second and third years.
Aunt Lou Marshbanks, a highly es-
teemed colored woman, who has been
in the Hills since 1876, died at Rocky
Fork, Wyoming, last week. She was
a slave, and acted as a nurse during
the Civil war. For years after COM
ing to the Black Hills she was house
keeper for the officials Of the DeSmet
Mining Co., and was one of the most
generous and kind hearted women,
as we'll as one of the finest cooks
ever known in the west.
The various high schools OF the
state are making arrangements for
inter-high school debates to take place
this winter. The question to be dis
cussed will be, 1.-The Closed and the
Open Shops"
Editor Mahurin has sold the New
Messenger at Frankfort to Richard
w. SHOEMAKER, Of Meadow, S. d., and
the first number of the paper under
the new management was issued last
week.
The citizens of Cuthbert on the
Milwaukee between Woonsocket and
Mitchell have complained to the rail-
way commission, seeking a new de-
pot.
Disposing Of fifteen separate mat
tiers in chambers court at WATERFOWL
Judge C. X. Seward set a record for
a days work the other day that he
is not anxioux to have to repeat very
soon. The matters disposed Of includ-
ed a divorce case, entering of judg-
ments and the denials and granting
Of motions.
The mystery as to who shot Miss
Lydia Keilbaugh of Mitchell, while
she was in a cornfield has been clear
ed up, the guilty party making a con-
fession when the evidence led to his
door. Miss Keilbaugh Is still in a
dangerous condition and there Is a
possibility that she will lose her eye
sight, as some Of the shot penetrated
her eyes. Shortly after the shooting
men went on the trail Of the two men
In the buggy who did the shooting.
Some OF the evidence pointed to a
Hldu Hdllltu Ilciiy lVhi, u "hSh
accused of the deed he at first denied
IL, but closer questioning as to his
whereabouts as the time Of the shoot
ing finally brought a confession from
him. Lehr stated that he had seen
the girl in the cornfield, but after
driving in another direction lost sight
of her. Later, spying what he thought
was a rabbit, he took a shot at 1t, only
to find that 1t was the girl he had
shot. Lehr stated that he was so
frightened he ran away. Lehr owns
1870 acres Of land near Trip and he
decided the same to the physician as a
surety that he would pay all damages
80 a civil action