The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-08-17


The 2-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis A. Sebers, of Dallas, who
was bitten by a rattle snake last week,
died at the Winsett hospital.
Ranches in the Black Hills country
are reported to be raising more cattl"
this year than usual.
There is q probability that Mrs.
Thomas j. Ball, widow of the Mitchell
postmaster who recently died, will be
appointed to fill the vacancy.
The first case of infantile paralysis
to develop this year in Lake county
has made its appearance at Nunda, a
4-yearOld girl being the victim.
Aberdeen club ONE have petition
ed the city authorities for a more
thorough inspection of milk sold in
that town, with monthly publication
of ,he report of the inspectors.
The Kimball Graphic suggests that
the authorities of that town decorate
the wooden traffic policemen recently
set in the streets Of Kimball with pots
Of ~everblooming plants.
Jules Wolff. of Chicago, IS years old,
who had been in Aberdeen for two
weeks, buying horses, was taken very
i'll with ptomaine poisoning, and died
a short time after his son had arrived
from Chicago.
Mrs. Andy Wcstendorf, of Kimball,
will take her chances with tramps,
hereafter. She had kept a loaded .38
revolver in the house while her hus-
band was absent from home. The
other day she undertook to unload the
revolver, and in doing so accidentally
discharged the weapon the bullet
passing entirely through her body at
the waist. She will recover.
James Cousins, of Aberdeen. is un-
der arrest on a charge of adultery. II
is claimed Cousins has been frequently
! absent from nome of late, but the de
~nOuncement came when he awokc one
morning and found a young woman
whom he was with dead in bed beside
him. Investigation proved the death
TO have been due to natural causes,
and Cousins was held for violation of
the marriage vows.
o. NJ. Lane, formerly city auditor of
Watertown, pleaded guilty in circuit
court last week to embezZlement and
was sentenced by Judge Sherwood to
four years in the penitentiary at Sioux
Falls.
Henry Bonnin, a prominent resident
of Wagner, received a telegram from
Senator Johnson, announcing that he
had been appointed postmaster. The
commission will be issued in the near
future, when he will assume the duties
of the position. The appointment will
give general satisfaction to the pa
irons of the office.
The corn crop Of the Missouri val
ley, and that grown between Pierre
and the Black Hills was last week on
sidered in booming cOnditiOn-the
farmers coming in reporting that with
n more good rain, nothing further
would be needed until husking time.
On Saturday and Sunday the rain
came. in a gentle, steady downpour.
With favorable weather from now I'M
til the crop is matured, central South
Dakota will have the biggest corr crop
in it's history.
At a special election held to decide
whether or not the schools of the dis
trict should be consolidated into one
school, to be situated in Elrod, the pro-
position was defeated. The district
covers half a township and the opposi-
ton was confined largely to those liv-
ing at a considerable distance from
Elrod.
The dead body of Mrs. Joseph Cham.
berlain, an Indian woman. was found
in a cornield on the farm of her hus.