The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-09-09

II. Stokes Milling company of Water,
town, for a claim for owe $4,000 on
freight. The suit is the result OF a
disagreement between the railroad
and the milling company regarding
freight classifcations.
The Mitchell Republican, while CON
ceding that the percentage of illiteracy
in South Dakota is remarkably reduced
thinks somebody must have fallen
down somewhere when the federal CEN
sus five years ago found over $1,000
illiterates in the state, while the state
enumerators found but a little more
than 5000 illitcrates. The Republican
finds it difficult to believe that about
10000 of the illiterates of five years
ago have learned to read and write
since then.
Lyman county residents are boost
ms the good road campaign in that
county, circulating a petition asking
the county commissioners to make a
special levy Of one half of one mill for
improvements on a main line highway
across the country from east to west.
AS the county is nearly ninety miles
long such a highway would affect the
travel of a great many people, and the
managers of the plan feel that they
will secure enough names on their petit
ton to warrant the county fathers
to act.
A young man whose name is I'M
known, is badly wanted by the authori-
ties at Yawlston. He drove into that
city Saturday morning, with a tired
looking team of horses, a gray and
a sorrel horse. He tried to sell them,
but failed to do so. He lief. the team at
a livery barn and went to another
where he hired a team of black horses
and a rig with a yellow running gear.
He started west and Saturday eveninc
Mr.. Thomas. the owner Of the team,
became suspicious and started after
the man. He traced the team as far
as twelve miles west of there then lost
all track of it.
A Greek laborer, named Nick Petsas,
was instantly killed in the Blunt
gravel pit where the Northwestern rail
road company is procuring large ship
ments of gravel for balasting the line
west of Pierre. He and another laborer
were both standing on the steam
shovel when the other laborer, Louis
Poulsam, saw a locomotive approach
could signal the engineer to stop, and
tried to call to his fellow laborer to
jump, but when the locomotive jolted
the steam shovel, Petsas fell beneath
the wheels and was run over He
leaves a family Of a wife and nine chill.
dren, and was lately employed in
Butte, Montana, where a sister lives,
who has been notified of his death.
The record of e shipments from
the northern part of the state are COM
ing up, the July shipments on the Nil
waukee branch from Eureka to Linton
being 1883 cans of cream, with an es-
timated value of $6,181.
E. A. Schuerman, a prosperous farm
er Of the G~arretson neighborhood in
Minnehaha county, is more than ordi.
narily interested in the great war. even
for an American citizen of German
birth. He had fifty relatives serving
in the German army, of whom no less
than fifteen were killed during the first
year of the war.
Although admitting after witnessing
a special exhibition of the film for
their iwn benefit, that it was "a bit
risQue," the members of the board OF
censors-consisting of the city attor
ney and the city commissioners-de.
cided to permit a movie presentation
of Three Weeks" the play that made
Elinor Glyn notorious. at a Sioux Falls
movie theater this week.
The flower show which was held a,
the auditorium in Pierre fairly filed
that large room with flowers coming
from homes all over the city. The ex
tent Of the exhibits. with the many diff
ferent varieties showed the efforts OF
Pierre citizens toward beautifying the
town. Over se~venty-hve different ex
hibit0rs brought in their showings. and
many prizes were awarded to the sue
lcessful contestants. Besides the prizes
generally Of merchandise, which were
awarded to the best Of the exhibits. the
cash prize Of ten dollars for the best
kept residence property was awarded