With a 30-3 season record, the Philip Lady Scotties began the State Class "B" State High School Volleyball Tournament as the number three seeded team. The tournament was November 15th through the 17th in Sioux Falls.

The Scotties had not lost a Class B match during the regular season. Two of their three losses went to Hot Springs and the other went to Bennett County, both Class A teams. The Scotties had won the District 13B tournament, then defeated Wall for the Region 7B championship.

Elsie Rae Mortensen, age 77, of Wall, died Thursday, November 22, 2007, at the Rapid City Regional Hospital.

Services were held Monday, November 26, at First Lutheran Church, with Pastor Monty Dell officiating.

Music was provided by Rhonda Mettler, organist, and Tom Ramirez, vocalist. Ushers were Darwin Haerer, Dan Dartt, Roger Fortune and Dennis Sieler.

Reid C. Palecek, stillborn son of Nicholas and Dusti (Feddersen) Palecek, died Saturday, November 17, 2007, at the Sanford Mid-Dakota Hospital in Chamberlain.

Survivors include his parents, Nicholas and Dusti Palecek of Ft. Pierre; a brother, Daylen Palecek of Ft.

Elizabeth L. Brown, age 82 of Tyndall, SD, died November 14, 2007, at the Tyndall Good Samaritan Center.

Services were held Friday, November 16, at the Rush Funeral Chapel in Philip.

Interment was in the Masonic Cemetery.

Elizabeth Lucy Maris Brown was born February 17, 1925, in Parade, SD, the daughter of James and Agnes (Paradis) Brown. She grew up in Parade, and later in the Chamberlain, SD, area. She finished her schooling in Kansas. She received her nursing training in Los Angeles, California during WWII.

Beryl "Bud" Allen was born November 15, 1918, in a house his father built in Ansley, Nebraska, the son of Peter G. and Agnes (Duncanson) Allen. As a child the family lived on a farm in the Ansley area and a ranch in the Burwell, Nebraska area. In 1926, the family moved to a farm east of Longvalley in Washabaugh County. He completed his education in that community. As a young man he worked for his parents and Maurice and Mae Handcock for several years. In 1940, he and Carson Dithmer moved to California to work on the railroad.

The Haakon District 27-1 Board of Education meeting on Monday, November 19, 2007, began with communications from the audience.

Philip second grade instructor, Jessica Wheeler, is the head of the Haakon Education Association's playground equipment project. She reported that a fundraising auction of special items will be held on January 20th, 2008. Wheeler said that her students are "excited about the progress" and about the different items coming in the mail. Items are coming in almost every day.

All auctioned items will be donations from famous individuals or businesses.

Stanley and Loleta will have been Mr. and Mrs. Jacobson for 79 years on November 28th, 2007.

They both lived in the Nowlin area and, when both were 18-years-old, they traveled to Fort Pierre to get married in a Lutheran church there on November 28, 1928.

"Why do kids do things like that?" said Loleta. "We were both crazy. But, we made it work."

She was a graduate from Philip High School and he was working for the railroad. "Then, we never even thought of making it to 79 years. We never thought of that during our marraige.