The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-10-05
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STATE NEWS

The Yanton Herald contains an in.
teresting news item announcing the
arrival, on September rs, of a baby son
to Senator and Mrs. E. S. Johnson.
Steps are being taken to secure a "a
hour continuous electric light and
power service for Bowdle. A petition
has beer generally signed.
Fred REM, of Herried, pointed A
didn't know it was loaded" revolver
at his cousin, Otto REM, at a party
and pulled the trigger. Otto dropped
dead with a bullet through his heart.
Mrs. Frank NJ. Byrne, wife of the
governor of South Dakota, is develop
ing considerable talent as a writer.
"The Song Beneath the Keys" is al
ready on the market and a new book,
elizabeth" will be off the press this
fall.
Thieves who stole an automobile
from X. j. Harrison, cashier of the
First National Bank of Mitchell, aban-
doned the machine four miles from
town, because Of punctured tires, and
it was recovered by the owner.
Nick Nelson, of Centeryille, who had
eight head of Poland China hogs at the
Huron state fair, returned home with
his porkers bedcckod with blue ribbons
and with 1916 in real money jingling in
his pockets, as premiums.
The state railway commission has
granted a permit on the application
Of the Mitchell and Northwestern Raj.
way company for the construction of a
line of railway from Mitchell to High
more, passing neal Gam Valley in But
falo county.
Parties who went against chuck
luck" the old army game, at the Pax
ton grain festival, swiped the bank roll
contained in a cigar box after dark, Sc
curing about 1925 in cold cash. The
m%anipulators of the game received
little sympathy.
The Rosebud country is seeking to
secure a federal farm loan bank, and
to this end has sent County Commits
sioner Tom Millet, of Gregory, to Oma-
ha to lay the matter before the federal
investigating board.
A movement is on foot to incorpor-
ate lebanon. At a public meeting
presided over by r. A. Jackson a COM
mittee of five vas appointed to take
the necessary preliminary steps to
place the question before the voters at
a special election as soon as possible.
Officials of the Yellowstone Trail as
bile highway extending from Plymouth,
Mass, to Seattle, with national head
quarters at Aberdeen, assert that 4,129
interstate automobiles passed through
Aberdeen over the trail during the
past summer.
While working on a threshing rig
near his home, Jacob Peterson, a
prominent young Savo township farm
er near Frederick, was caught in the
belt and hurled considerable distance,
striking on his head, causing a fractur-
ed skull and a broken blood vessel
from which he died a short timeafter-
wards.
Mrs. John Whitmore, a Lake county
upman ic oraditod with tho laropSt
donation to the prohibition cause, in
the form of eggs. Last spring the farm
women of the state were asked to do
nate a weeks product Of the chicken
yards to the cause of prohibition. Mrs,
Whitmore distanced all competitors
by donating 720 eggs-sixty dozen
during the week.
Concerning Madison's ordinance re-
quiring a physical examination and
health certificate for house to house
canvassers, a representative of a Chi
cago house which sends out canvassers
ordinance cal apply only to South d.
kotans, as its application to canvassers
outside the state would constitute an
interference with interstate commerce.
What is known as the John Davis
farm, situated one mile west of Hud-
son, has been sold by Fred Long for
$3.50 per acre a record price for
farm land in hat immediate vicinity.
Long purchased the farm about a year
ago, and in addition to making a big
profit from the increase in the value
of the land during the year he also will
receive his share of this seasons crop.
There has never been a failure of crops
on this farm.
A man killed by a train at Baltic,
north of Sioux Falls. has been identi-
fed as Gerhard Lakrem, a farm hand,
who for some time had been employed
in the vicinity Of Baltic. He was re-
turning from a trip to Sioux Falls and
when alighting from a Milwaukee pas
senger train at the Baltic depot lost