The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-05-23

Baptist Ladies' Aid home baking at
SINNERS store on Saturday, May %.
DR.. and Mrs. Horace w. Tilden left
Monday evening for Sioux Falls for a
few days visit, going from there to
Des Moines, Iowa, where DR.. Tilden is
scheduled for an addressand he speaks
at the memorial services of the Jeffer-
son, Iowa, Post. They Their go east to
Boston, where DR.. Tilden is the Of
floating clergyman at a large public
wedding. They then proceed to Colby
college in Maine, where DR.. Tilden at
tends a reunion of his class and de-
livers the commencement address on
June %. They will spend the summer
at the seashore, returning to Brook
ings in September.
The saloonkeepers whose license
money County Treasurer Van Dyke
refused to accept last week, applied to
Judge Seward Tuesday for a writ of
mandamus to compel the treasurer to
accept the money and issue licenses.
Judge Seward did not refuse the writ,
but deferred the matter until the
town councils of Elkton, Volga and
Aurora have passed upon the saloon
mems applications. Those bodies are
expected to act favorably upon the ap-
plications and the court will then
likely issue the writ, and the battle
will be on.
Zalfo, the trotting stallion belong
ing to J. +. Rudolph of Aurora, was
kicked by another horse at the fair
grounds Saturday and his right hind
leg was broken at the ankle. On ac-
count of his value, Mr.. Rudolph de
cided TO try 10 save him and turned
him over to DR.. Hill. He was taken
TO the college veterinary building,
placed in a sling and a cast put OF
the broken member. He will have to
remain there at least two months, and
ever though the bones knit properly,
he will never be able to race again.
The city council met in special SEES
sion Friday evening to open bids for
the city coal for the coming year. A
large number of bids were received
and the contract was awarded to the
Botsford Lumber company. Their
price was $40 per or delivered in
the bin, and the city will use about
two thousand tons. Heretofore the
contract has always been let for coal
delivered on track and a separate con
tract for the hauling, but under the
bid Of the Botsford company, these two
contracts are in one.
Last Friday afternoon the public
schools of the city were thrown open
to visitors, parents being particularly
invited, and the work of the pupils OF
each grade and of the manual train
ing department vas on exhibit. The
exhibit was a surprise, a delightful
one to the visitors, all of whom We're
loud in their praises of the students
work. over three hundred people
noon. The past year has been n of
the most profitable and harmonious in
the history of the school and Superin-
tendcnt Browning and his corps of
teachers are to be congratulated.
The state board of regents have adj
vertised for bids for the new 500, 600
administration building at the college,
and the bids will be opened and the
contract let here on June 2S. The
building is to be three stories high,
built of brick with stone trimmings.
The brick will be of a quality and
color similar 10 that used in the me-
chaniCai building and girls dOrmitory.
Il will contain the administrative Of
fees. class looms and an auditorium
TO seat one thousand or twelve hun
dred people As we have previously
mentioned, II Will Ne lOtdLtu just
south of the Experiment Station build
ing.
A dispatch from Flandreau says
that the people OF that town are or
ganizing a league to protect the fish in
the Big Sioux river. The league might
90 a step farther and induce the
Moody county game warden to make
some move against the outlaws who
are scining game fish out of the south
end Of Lake Campbell The south end
is in Moody county and out of the jur-
isdiction of the Brookings county war
den, and for years people living south
OF the lake have made SEEMING a regu-
lar business. The fishing in the Sioux
near here anyway, is no good what
ever. but there would be some good
sport at Campbell if the game wardens
WOuld make some DretenSe toward