The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-10-07

former secretary of state Frank Glas-
ner, a few months ago, has taken the
paper back, according to an nnounce
ment by him in the last issue OF the
paper, which alleges that Glasner had
failed 10 comply with the terms of the
sale and that Perkins would conduct
the paper until other arrangements
were made.
Serious charges are made by the
Woonsocket Herald against some of
the peace officers of Sanborn county,
in which the charge is made that when
Max Goldstein, a young laborer, wrote
then, asking them to help him find
his mother, Mrs. Josephine Goldstein,
from whom he had long been separat.
ed, TO act in the matter unless the
young man came across" with $50.
The mother and son were afterward
reunited through the efforts of the
sheriff Of Lake county.
That over so per cent of the appli-
cantS for teachers certificates at the
last monthly examination failed, is the
showing of the marking board, There
Were 5S4 applicants, on which certi-
icates We're issued for seven state GER
tihcates; ia first grades; 123 second
grades. and % third grades. Fifteen
applicants for state certificates. and
297 for county certificates faileo
Haakon county land at SIS an acre
is going some for a section of the
state in which there is yet homestead
tracts to be had, but that was the
price paid Jud Robinson for a quarter
section about twelve miles northwest
Of Philip a few days ago. and for a
tract without a single building upon 1t.
But it was all in alfalfa which has
been seeded for several years and a
good stand Of the forage assured, and
the purchaser, ever at that figure can
feel assured of a good income on his
investment for any year, either in the
way of hay, or better yet, in the way
of seed, in a favorable seed year.
Selling a bottle of carbolic acid in
the belief that it was liquor, William
Wright, a United States soldier from
Fort Meade, swallowed a quantity of
the liquid. The prompt administering
of antidotes saved his life.
1t is announced on apparently good
authority that the Prairie Pioneer,
which has been published at Manila
for several years, will be moved to
Philip, and published in the future
from that place.
On October IS the Beresford city
council will open bids for the sale of
$4,000 in city bonds which were au-
thorized to be issued by the voters at
a special election. The bonds will be
issued for the purpose of taking up the
floating warrants of the city.
Cole Sodgren, who was captured in
Stanley county after an exciting chase
and brought back to Pedro, entered a
plea of guilty in the state circuit court
to the charge of stealing a horse from
Elmer Hawkes., a rancher living near
Pedro. and was sentenced to a term
of eight mosths in the Sioux Falls
penitentiary.
Governor Byrne has appointed as
delegates from South Dakota to the
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meets at Oakland, Cal, October 8 to
IA; O. S. Swenson, warden of the pen
itentiary at Sioux Falls; A. r. Schlos-
ser, superintendent of the sttae train
ing school at Plankinton; Warren
Green of Hazel; w. II. King of Nit
chell; G. l.. Dotson of Sioux Falls; G..
C. Redfield of Rapid City, members Of
the state board Of charities and correc-
tons.
October fifth is the date fixed as the
average killing frost date for South
Dakota, taking tWenty-four years on
which to make the estimates, which
were made by Doane Robinson of the
state historical department. The ear
lest killing frost in the t~wenty-four
years was September 18th, and the
latest November fifth This investiga-
ton was brought out through the re-
port of the journal of Lewis and Clark,
which reported the first killing frost
in the year 1904, on October 5, on
which date the party was about the
line between Potter and Sully coun-
ties.
That it requires a majority Of all
voters residing within the district to
change the location if a school house,
is the holding of the state legal depart
ment, basing their opinion on a decis-
ion of the supreme court in such a
matter. The request for an opinion
came up from Beadle county, and the
showing it that both Attorney General
Pyle, and Attorney General Clark held