The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-10-14

it can be loaded at a lower rate. ii
is expected that the improvements Will
be completed to the mine by the mid
die of next month after which the
output will be ten cars a day. The
fuel will be supplied TO consumers
without profit.
A transaction has been completed
whereby VIM. F. Behrens, editor OF
the Worthing Enterprise, purchased
the Lennox Independent, which Will
he will conduct in future in connec-
ton with his Worthing paper. l.. 7.
Bartell. who has been an assistant
on the staff of the Worthing paper.
will have active charge of the Lennox
Independent.
Seven thousand bushels of grain
was consumed in a fire which de-
strOyed the J. J. Mullaney grain ele-
vator in Canova. The loss has not
yet been announced, but is expected
to be upward of $4,000. Insurance
will cover the greater part of the
loss. The fire started in the engine
IOOlu anu SDISdu Will SlNdl IdpiuAbs
over the entire building, which was
doomed from the first.
At a meeting of the farmers and
cornhuskers in Union county it was
decided to pay 6 cents if an elevator
is used and Z cents if shoveled off a
wagon. At a meeting in the north
end Of Union county it was decided
to pay Z cents and s cents, as that is
the price paid on the Iowa side of the
Sioux river. The prevailing price be-
ing paid for the picking of corn in
Brown county is Is cents per bushel,
although some farmers have paid Is
cents. 1t is predicted that the pick
ing price will decline as the season
advances.
A new government building has
been completed in Belle FOurche, and
the postofice will be moved into it
as soon as the furniture and fixtures
can be Installed, which is expected to
be about November l.
1t is officially announced that at the
present time twenty-five of the rural
schools of Edmunds county are with
out teachers. The teacher shortage
has been acute in that county for
some time.
Six more prisoners were added to
the number at the South Dakota pen
itentiary last week. Sheriff c. w.
Kener Of Marshall county, brought
down George Galmon and Cyril Sast-
ings who will serve four and six years
for stealing cattle. Fred Gibson will
serve from a n to ten years sen
tence for burglary and Jack Cole, w.
H. Porter and John Randall, were
entered by the Sphinx county sheriff on
a holdup charge.
Howard Hoffman of Union county,
was arrested on a charge of kidnap-
ing his wife. The whole community
of Brule township and the vicinity of
the Hoffman home were at the court
house when he was brought to jail
and a mob was at first feared. Mrs.
two weeks ago. The husband CLAIMS,
it is alleged. hat she went to Tekoa,
Wash, to visit relatives, taking the
train at Nermillion. He will be held
in Jail until her whereabouts are
ascertained.
Negotiations have been concluded
whereby the ySmead hotel in Lead, one
of the finest buildings in the Black
Hills, and one of the best known
hosteleries in the western part of the
state, has passed from the hands Of
the hotel company to the ownership
of Miss Werdna Keller, who for the
past five years has been it's manager.
The transaction involved a huge sum,
as the hotel has been a favorite stop
ping place for tourists and popular
with the Hills people.
Blood poisoning resulting from a car
buncle on the back of his neck caused
the death of John Johnson, a well
known young farmer whose home was
two miles southeast of Mobridge. He
had been in good health up to within
a few days of his death. He was 25
years of age, and was born near Mo
bridge, having lived on the old farm
all his life.
The board of county commissioners
at Mitchell has served an ultimatum
on the road workers in the employ Of
the county. In the future wages VIII
be limited to so cents an hour per
man and so cents an hour per team.
Two weeks ago when it was ab5o-
lutely necessary to complete two high
way jobs the laborers struck for an
increase Of 20 per cent. Because Of
the necessity, the board met the in
crease. That work is now finished
and it vas declared the men could
either accept the old wage or quit.
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