The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-12-14

tiOns for marriage licenses in the ofic.
Of the clerk of courts in Sioux Fall
The decrease over the corresponding
period last year is nearly so per cent
T. l.. Wanner, of Aberdeen, a Nil
waukee railroad man, after a trim to
Philadelphia, and other eastern point.
returned home firm in the belief tina,
food spectators and the high wage
paid eastern munition works employcs
are the combined causes of the high
cost of living.
Five buildings in the business sec
ton of Spencer We're completely de
stroyed and another structure was GUT
ted by fire recently which originated
in an explosion of boiling linseed oil in
a pool hall in one of the buildings. TIL,
total property loss is estimated at
$4,000.
Supporters of the suffrage move,
ment in South Dakota are taking com
fort from quoting statistics shown
that outside Of five counties with q
very large German and Russian opu
lation, and Charles Mix county, with "a
large Indian vote. the state gave a ma
jority for equal suffrage.
George Mueller, a pioneer of Yank
ton county, who died at his home near
Lesteryille recently. was a native Of
Russia, who immigrated to the United
States. settling in Yankton county in
1875, He struggled for a livlihood
through long years of hardship and
poverty, and finally acquired a FORUM
leaving large possessions in farm land
TO his widow and nine surviving chill
dren.
Mae Mckee, a young woman living
near PIankinton. offered to finish husk-
ing corn for her father. when the latter
was prevented from working because
Of an injury, provided she received the
same pay any other husker would get.
The offer was accepted, and Mae pick
ID 354 bushels of corn for s cents a
bushel.
It is reported that Howard c. Shober,
former state insurance commissioner
and for many years one Of the active
leaders Of the group of republicans
now in control Of party affairs in South
Dakota, will remrve 10 Minneapolis in
the near future. Since retiring from
Office Mr.. Shober has been managing
an insurance company.
There were 1912 applicants for
teachers certificates at the recent ex-
animation held over the state, and the
superintendent of public instruction re-
ports that 642 were granted second
grade certificates, 268 third grade,
eight primary, and 291 failed. Three
were held for further consideration.
Seventy-two certificates were granted
upon certificates from other states.
Alexander S. Linn, of Huron, was !
found dead in his home by neighbors,
bled to death. A short time ago
he burned a foot badly, and it is be
lieved he was treating the injury when
he accidentally severed an artery,
causing his death. When found he was
sitting in a chair with a pipe in his
mouth and the bleeding foot resting on +
a table. The bed, from which he had
.evidentally risen to treat the injury,
was saturated with blood.
The government has embarked in
the sheep business on Cheyenne River
reservation for the benefit of the In
dams. Two thousand ewes have been
shipped in from Montana, and will be
held as tribal stock" for a few years
until individual Indians can be given
instructions in the handling of these
animals, when they will be distributed
as are other stock to those who will be