The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-02-22

are registering for a cash choice. 1t
is estimated that approximately 500
will take the cash.
On a petition of the voters of Lead
the city council has called a special
election for February 20, at which it
will be decided whether the city will
have three or five commissioners this
spring. Two years ago the city voted
for the commission form Of govern
ment with five commissioners, the
plan to go into effect in April next
but recently sentiment in favor of
three instead Of five commissioners
has caused the call for a special cleo
ton.
Good progress is being made in the
work of installing an electric light
system at Memo. The power house
is completed and the big engine is
being installed. 1t is expect d that
in the course of two or three weeks
the system will be placed in operation.
Six elevators belonging to the South
Dakota Farmers Elevator company.
together with 1000 bushels of grain
and about 500 tons of coal, will be
sold at public auction in the court
house at Aberdeen on February "a,
by G. o. Newcomb, one of the trus.
tees for the creditors. This is the
climax of the company's having been
forced into bankruptcy through a loss
approximately $4,000 through
speculation during the past year. The
elevators are located at Nahon, Brent
ford, Stratford, Randolph and two at
Verdon. These will be sold separate
ly.
Several important recommendations
are made in a report which has lust
been filed by the Good Government
in reference to the saloon
question in Sioux Falls. The report
IS the result of an exhaustive ~investi-
cation of the subject. The league
suggests that in view of the act that
t is the general practice of working.
men to cash their pay checks in the
saloons on Saturday night hat the
take turns in remaining open
,or a period of one or two hours each
saturday evening for the purpose of
,ashing these checks. At present
Falls has thirty-two licensed
saloons. The league recommends that
July l next this number be cut
Town to twenty, and that not more
han twenty licenses per year be
until the population of the
city reaches 81, 900, when an addition
saloon may be licensed for each
900 OF population. The league fur
her suggests that arrests of drunken
men be suspended for a time as an
experiment, and that instead a few
Of the saloon men who sell to intoxi-
""Su hc q piosSSuIcu. III is 1urtn-
recommended by the league that
he city providing a first class loafing
placer poor mans club-for all
men who desire to take advantage of
It.
The town of Capa, forty miles west
Of Pierre, suffered a heavy loss by a
fire which started in a pool hall and
extended to a drug store and hardware
store, destroying the three buildings
and stocks at a loss Of several thou
sand dollars.
After two weeks Of contention and
between the license and
people at Miller. the sa-
looms did not open and the town is
dry. and probably will be until July
LIST. The question will be voted on
again In April.
The foundation for a new opert
house and town hall building has
been completed at Eagle, and as soon
as the weather permits in the spring
the structure will be pushed to CON-
pletion.
In n day 1900 bushels Of corn
was marketed at Platte. most of 1t
coming from a single township in
Charles MIX county. Many thousands
OF bushels yet remain in the hands