The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-10-28
NEWS

The question of engaging the SER
vices of a business manager is the
chief matter scheduled to be sumitted
to the voters at a special election
called in Chamberlain. The mayor
plans spending the winter in Cali
fornia, and as 10 one else a he
found to accept the Office Of mayor, a
movement was inaugurated TO have
the affairs of the city conducted by
a business manager.
To take the place of |. ID. Aldrich of
Big Stone, former member and secre-
tary of the state board of regents,
Mrs. Helen Gamble, well known Red
Cross worker, was elected secretary
of the board, according to the an
nouncement today of T. w. Dwight,
president. Mrs. Gamble is widely
known around the state for her eff
Client work during the war as an or
ganiZer and field worker for the Red
Cross and for her numerous activities
in the interests of the state and the
advancement of women. She makes
her home at Frederick now and Will
continue to do so although her work
with the board will take her to any
point where they happen to meet.
Under a decision of the state su
preme court it is likely that 7-year-old
Lucia Haglund, possession of whom
| hos lRAn fnIoht thrnDrh thn Gntrt,
of South Dakota for the past three
years, may shortly change her resi-.
dence from Sioux Falls to Montana.
The decision was in favor of the father
of the child, John Haglund, who in
stituted the action to ove the child
from relatives in Sioux Falls, who
took custody of her when her mother
died.
Judge James ID. Elliott, of the fed
eral court, rendered a decision in the
case of the Midland National bank.
OF Minneapolis vs.~the Farmers Land,
Loan & Grain company of Freeman,
S. D., which enables the Minneapolis
bank to recover $4,000 on a note in
which an alleged gambling transaction
was involved.
Not the slightest trace yet has been
found of Gilbert Ringering, a promi-
nent farmer of Flandreau, who mystic
riously disappeared after leaving a
note stating that he had gone to the
Big Sioux river for the purpose Of
taking poison and drowning himself
so he would not "be in a%nyone's way
any longer" The river was dragged
for a distance Of several miles with
out the body being found.
1t cost two women giving their
homes as Deadwood and Lead, fines
and costs amounting to $64.75 each
for appearing at a dance at Fruitdale
in an intoxicated condition. They en-.
tered pleas of guilty in a Belle Fourche
court and paid the amounts assessed
against them.
The Claremont mine of Lennon,
purchased last summer by the state
upon the recommendation of the com
LilIleS appointed 10 investigate the
a~dvisability Of the state entering the
coal mining business and thus pro-
tecting as far as possible, citizens of
the state against coal shortage is now
shipping coal to South Dakota points
at the rate Of approximately 200 tons
daily.
Mrs. Frank Devan, wife of Editor
Devan of the Pollock Progress, was
fatally burned at her home there last
Saturday, and died on Sunday morning
while being taken to Mobridge to be
placed in a hospital for treatment.
Mrs. Devan was using a supposedly
harmless liquid stove polish when
the polish exploded and set fire to her
clothing.
Two or three inches of snow fell in
the first real snowstorm OF this fall
to sweep over the northern Black Hills
This week. Extreme cold weather has
not yet been experienced in the Black