The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-04-04
South Dakota News


An eastern firm is negotiating for
} a Site and buildings to establish a
shirt factory at Aberdeen. The en-
/, t~erprise will be a valuable one for
that city.
United States Attorney E. e. Wag-
ner, has moved his official headquar-
tiers from Sioux Falls to Mitchell, and
has had another assistant added to
his force, in the person of w. E. Van
DeMark, of Alexandria.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis rail
road has granted a free freight rate
to the county commissioners Of Nc
Pherson county, for seed grain ship
ped into the county, and the COM
missioners will issue bonds and pur-
chase seed for the use Of the farmers.
Henry VanWoert, a prominent and
wealthy farmer living near Canistota,
has just made a substantial gift to
HIS lOlI 0Oio anu Oht udu5hJCl' IL
each of them he has given a deed to
a farm of 100 acres. The land is high
ly improved and very valuable.
George w. Kingsbury was a guest
Of honor at a meeting of the Yankton
Monday Noon club, and among other
things was presented with a $50 gold
piece from the citizens Of the city in
honor Of the closing of his 50th year
as a resident of Yankton.
The Standard Oil company has de-
/ cided to make Mcintosh, the county
seat Of COrson county, a distributing
point for that portion Of South Dako-
ia, and will erect a building there
large enough to hold several carloads
of oil at once.
The residents Of Washington
Springs are rejoicing because after
years of effort they will in the near
future have telegraphic ~communica-
ton with the outside world-some-
thing the town, strange to say, has
not yet enjoyed. Poles for the new
line now have been set for some dist
ance out Of Woonsocket, and by April
Is it is expected telegraphic COM
m%unication will be established.
James Calligar, for three years
foreman of the gas plant at the Chi
cago & Northwestern shops at Huron
died from injuries received by a fall
downstairs at his rooming house ear
ly Sunday morning. His skull was
crushed. Galligar was about SO years
old, single, and came from Palmer,
Neb., where his mother resides. A
sister, Mrs. Birch, lives in haywood,
I'll.
In circuit court, at Yankton, in the
case of Joseph G. Mollet vs.. the Cur
ney Seed company, the jury brought
in a verdict for the plaintiff, fixing
the amount of damages to be paid by
the defendant at 1881. The case was
n in which the plaintiff sued for
damages for injuries sustained by
himself while in the defendant com
panys employ.
The recently organized good roads
association at Montrose has been
merged with the local commercial
club, and the united body will work
steadily for the upbuilding of Mont
rose and the improvement of the
highways centering there. One of the
first projects will be the construction
Of a model road from Montrose to
Humboldt.
On Friday and Saturday last occur
red the spring second and third
grade, and primary teachers' exami-
nation, papers from which are now
reaching the state superintendent
office for marking by the brand COM
mission" If the previous records are
maintained about 1900 took the quiz.
Vast quantities Of wheat and other
seed grain are now leaving the towns
throughout the state, preliminary to
the commencement Of active farming
operations as soon as the frost leaves
the ground and the ground has dried
off sufficiently to permit the opening
Of spring work.
Gov. Wesley has appointed as men,
bers Of the woman's board Of ~investi-
cation of charitable and penal insti-
buttons of the state: Miss Emmer
Cook of Huron, Mrs. Lucy Borneman
Of Sioux Falls and Mrs. Mana Gilbert
of Salem.
A jury in the state circuit court
awarded Robert Welch, a Gregory