The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-09-07
STATE NEWS


At a special election held at Gar
retson last week bonds in the sum OF
$4,000 were authorized to be issued
for the purpose of charging and i'm,
proving the municipal electric light
system.
j. c.. Collins, near Gettysburg. has
threshed out LOO bushels of rye from
tic field Of As acres and it was mar
keted at 9S cents. This is an average
Of about 2412 bushels to the acre or a
little oyer $24 per acre.
Newspaper Offices ordinarily are not
attractive prospects to robbers, but an
exception was made at Yankton. The
office safe of the Press and Dakotan
was robbed recently nd $57 in cash
taken. There is no clew.
Indians are playing an important
part this year in politics in Bennett
county, which was formed from reser-
walton lands. Many of the redmen are
aspirants for county Offices, and as the
vote of the Indians is heavy, it is *
pected some of them will. be elected.
A. 1000, 900 silk shipment, bound to
New York from Japan, passed through
northern South Dakota as a section of
the Milwaukee's fast transcontinental
train. The cargo is said to have been
Tho nnnct valuable nnncionpNnn nf
silks ever hauled across the continent.
South Dakota farmers are finding
that it isn't necessary to finish off"
hogs on corr or barley in order to
place them in prime condition for mar
ket. w. l. Thompson, of near Madi-
son, finished off" a bunch of hogs on
alfalfa and they brought 1910 on the
market.
Aberdeen news dealers who had
been short of their regular consign-
ment of Sunday papers from the big
cities for several weeks started an in
v~estigation and found some newsboys
had been stealing the papers as they
were unloaded on the trucks at the
Milwaukee station.
One of the few postmasters
in South Dakota will be Miss Moen,
who has received notice from the post
office department at Washington of
her appointment as postmistress of
Toronto. c. e. Jeglum, who had been
postmaster for a great many years,
resigned several months ago on ac-
count of failing health.
The attorney general has ruled that
fees paid for examinations of teachers
must remain in the county in which
the examination has been held. 1t has
been the custom when a teacher from
one county takes the examination in
another county to send the fees to the
county of which the teacher is a resi-
dent, but this practice will be no
longer followed.
John Houk, a young farmer, is in a
hospital at Yankton with his head half
scalped through a wound received in a
peculiar manner. He was riding in an
auto with a farmers rig ahead, upon
which was a bull rake. The auto
lights showed the wagon, but not the
| wide rake. AS the auto passed the
wagon a tooth on the rake caught
Houk in the head, scalping one side of
his head. He will recove
Requests for information concerning
the land available for homestead entry
in Lawrence county under a new law
passed last month are deluging the
Black Hills national forest headquar-
tiers at Deadwood. Before the land can
be taken up the forest force must
classify 1t, and this work is being rush.
ed by Supervisor Kelleter, but it will
require several weeks to complete. The
opening Of these lands will mean sew
eral hundred settlers.
H. s. Hedrick. state game warden. is
urging hunters to procure their hunt
ing licenses now, In order to avoid the
rush during the last day or two before
the opening of the season. He states
duck shooters will have q plentiful sup