The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-05-17
STATE NEWS

being taken care of by the Huron
commercial club. Secretary o. M.
Phelps and Assistant Secretary r. w.
Horn are spending much time in sup
plying the farmers with competent
help. Countless transients are coming
in daily from the eastern states look
ing for farm work, and the Huron com-
mercial club is supplying the farmers
with men and the men with jobs as
fast as possible.
AS the result of an alteration be-
tween Roy burst and Oliver Skeets, of
Baskerville, the latter was shot and
wounded by the former. The Custer
county officers were summoned to the
scene, and they were accompanied by
a doctor so the wounded man could Sc
cure prompt attention. Pending their
return from Baskerville, which is in a
remote portion of Custer county, no
further details of the shooting can be
secured. burst for some time has
operated a sawmill in Baskerville.
Mrs. Nina G.. Frederickson, of Clark,
has been granted a decree of divorce
from her husband, James Frederick
son, station agent of the Chicago G.
Northwestern railway, by Judge Sher-
wood. In granting the decree of d.
vorce, the judge awarded Mrs. Fred
erickson the custody of the child, ruled
xLo4 .h> h,,Lorl chov1I NOW 31E0 of.
torney's fees, $40 a month alimony and
the costs of the suits in addition.
H. H. Tellinghuisen, formerly of
Sibley, Ia, has purchased forty acres
of land a mile east of Watertown and
is establishing a poultry ranch. He ex-
poets to raise poultry on a large scale,
both for eggs and meat, and also will
raise fancy birds.
The silks stolen from the John
Bonde store at Arlington on March
29th were recovered at Cleveland,
Ohio, a few days ago. The silks were
shipped to that city from st. Paul by a
man giving the nam of Cohen. The
work is evidently performed by a
gang who are experts in judging silks,
as they took only the best at Bonde's
store. They did the same at the Hart
ley and Nelson store at Hetland, n
the same at Brookings last fall. Every
. thing indicates that it is an organized
gang, and that they operate extern
sively.
Thomas J. Church, a resident of
Huron in territorial and early state
hood days, and prominent in local
newspaper circles at that time, was in
the state last week for a short visit.
Mr.. Church is now located at Seattle,
Washington, where he is engaged in
the publishing business. The father of
Mr.. Church, Louis X. Church, was
prominent as a public official here in
the early days. He vas governor of
Dakota territory. being succeeded by
Governor Mellette, the first governor
after Dakota became a state. During
his term as governor his son was his
private secretary.
The second annual convention Of
the South Dakota Association of Fire
Chiefs was held last week in Sioux
Falls. Addresses Of welcome were
made by Mayor George w. Burnside
and c. M. Day. The register for the
first days session showed that IS fire
chiefs from all sections of the state
made welcome the visitors in
behalf of the State Fire Prevention
in behalf of the State Fire Prevention
association and Chief VIM. Sloan in
behalf of the Sioux Falls fire depart.
ment. President J. B. Mayo, of Lead,
and Commissioner of Insurance VIM.
Van Camp, of Pierre, responded.
Residents of Pukwana township in
Brule county voted at a special cleo
ton to purchase traction engines and
graders for the purpose Of maintain
ing good roads. This action on the
part of Pukwana township is the mi
tiative in that section of the country
or the eighty-one farmers in the town.
ship, every one is the owner of an
automobile.
AS an indication Of the situation
which is delaying farming operations
in the country north of Pierre, the
news reports are that all the farmers
are putting in spare time in pumping
water out of their cellars. That in a
section where a few years ago it was
held that it took twenty acres to grow
enough grass to Craze a steer for the
summer, but now it is so wet that II
is impossible for the farmers to get
upon their fields to begin seeding.
Governor Norbeck has granted re-
QUESTION upon the governor of Missouri
for the custody of Herman Kalkes'
wanted in Bon Homme county on a
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