The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-09-21
STATE NEWS

South Dakota grain elevators are all
doing a tremendous business, owing 20
the high price of grain now.
Hand county voters will pass on a
proposition at the November election
to issue 500, 900 in bonds to build a
new court house at Miller.
Oscar Weir, a farmer near I%roqouis,
has just sold his barley crop, which
netted him s24 an acre. The yield
averaged 33 bushels to the acre.
Bert Downs, of Bryant, was seriously
wounded when his shotgun was acct
dentally discharged as he was taking
it from a buggy. 1t is thought he will
recover.
Ten Aberdeen high school girls are
taking the manual training course,
specializing in carpentry. Their first
work in that line was the construction
of the hope chests"
William Maloney, of Eakin, Sully
county, reports a return Of $21.42 per
acre from a crop of As acres Of winter
y - 81 " " thC
acre and sold it at $1.02 per bushel.
Deadwood Masons will hold their
ffty-second reunion during the week Of
September 1929, when large classes
will receive the degrees from the
fourth to the thirty-second, inclusive.
Madison is rushing the organization
of the new company of the South Da-
kota national guard with the intention
of having the company become a part
of the first battalion of the new regi-
ment.
WATERFOWL claims to have one of the
smallest bonded indebtedness of any
city of her size in the country. The
bonded debt for school and municipal
improvements totals but a scant 1925
600.
Hugo Cook, a Marion banker, has
started a damage suit against the
South Dakota Local Option league,
used his name as county president for
Turner county without his authority.
ID. n. Hunt, a pioneer South Dakotan,
and the. first mayor of Redfeld, diedat
his home in that town, at the age of 70.
He was a veteran Of the civil war, a
member Of an Iowa regiment, and NOV
ed to Sphinx county in 1880.
The press of the country recently
ted that the king of Denmark was
nearly drowned in a small boat off
! Copenhagen, and that he was rescued
:, by a young man. A c. Topp, of Yank-
ton, has been informed his brother-in-
law, Viggo Madsen, was the rescuer,
and that he is now Sir Viggo, of the
: Danebrog, a great Danish order Of
!; knighthood.
The Milwaukee railroad company
: has beer ordered by the state railroad
commission to remove the Emery de-
pot back up town. Some time ago,
/, after a dispute with the Emery city
authorities, the railroad moved the de-
pot to the stock yards, many blocks
4 from thebusiness part Of town.
. Principal C. M. Blair, of The Aber-
, deem schools, upon his return from
Huron, where he judged the exhibits
of penmanship by South Dakota school
pupils, stated that Indian pupils in the
lower grades excelled white pupils in
the same grades in penmanship. Taken
as a whole, he said, the redskin school
children were much better writers than
i their paleface rivals.
/ The authorities of Brown county and
+ of the state cannot agree upon the
proper disposition to be made Of John
Walsh, who has just been found insane
: at Aberdeen. The state insane asylum
h on the ground that he is a resident of
st. Louis, and should be returned
: there. The Brown county officials say
Walsh has no family or relatives, has
| not lived in st. Louis for two years,
u and has lived in South Dakota, at Mo
bridge and Aberdeen, for some time.
4 They contend Walsh is a state and not
q a county charge, and should be sent to
Yankton.
Mrs. /. M. Todd has sued Daneville
township, in Turner county, for $4,000
damages for injuries she is said to
have received by being thrown out Of
y an automobile when the machine
g struck a culvert which was several
inches higher than the roadbed.
y Mayor George Waskey, of Madison,
who visited Minneapolis to discover
what progress is being made in the
y building of the Luce electric railway
from Minneapolis to Madison, found
u the calling of the militia to the border
J. had taken away many of the workmen
and had materially interfered with the
i construction of the line.
q Farm land in Moody county has been
in rood demand this year and a mum