The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-10-17
A GREAT PAPER AND SOME
GREAT PEOPLE
(By Charles +. HALL

must tell you something about the
mandatory in which is produced the
best paper published in the west
sold the paper on the streets Of Mime
apolis twenty-five years ago and do
not believe that IN all those years
there has been "A dozen publication
days when | have missed reading It.
It's my paper
| had a nice chat with Mr. FrlsDle,
the managing editor, and Of course
awaited myself of the timchonored
privilege OF odd Subscriber 10 tell
him how | thought the thing shoulo
be run and where he was falling down.
The city editor, Harry y. Wakefield,
is an old time friend OF mine, he
having been for years in the country
newspaper business and was for few
minutes an advance agent. In both
advance agent it required some two
or three other men to keep track of
the man ahead. BY sheer merit he
has worked himself into this respon-
sible and trying position and he is
more than making good. His office
is not as nice as John Murphy's, the
city editor on this great defender of
the peoples rights, and where John
brings his copy around to the machine,
Harry puts his in a tube and it is
shot into the composing room by com
pressed air There is a whole lot of
air going 90 waste out here and John
should harness some of il and get up
to date. O'Loughlin, with Maurice
Mclnerny as understudy, hand the
Journal readers about the best bunch
OF sporting news and gossip YOU ever
read This is by far the best job on
the paper. Why he has to go to all
the ball games and he gets in free!
OLoughlin is not his right name. He
is trying to break into the ranks of
us Irish and as he is all right he
should be let in.
f. c. Torrey is the man that looks
after the correspondence page and at
this he is all right but he has on hand
lot of canned opinions about South
Dakota politics that should be taken
away from him. Last year he opened
one and it was spoilt, and just little
time since he opened another and that
was rotten. He does not seem to know
shackles Of the railroads and other
greedy and miserable interests and
that the people are running things. or
course the stalwarts are making lot
of noise and hard fight. Their eff
forts to again get at the pie counter
listen like the noises made by drove
of Poland Chinas when the corn is in
serted in the trough If Bro. Torrey
would just get his ear to the ground
or would take the trouble to ask some
one other than Senator Kittredge,
Frank Crane, ct al, he will learn that
it will he at least seven hundred years
after Minneapolis gets a new union
station before this state Is ever again
given over to the gang who SO shame
fully abused and mistreated it. Come
out here and we will furnish you a
package of the real sentiment, with
the name blown I'm the bottle and the
whole thing i'm strict conformity with
the pure food and other laws. stat
uary or moral. that are right.
James Gray, one time mayor OF
Minneapolis, is connected with the
Journal, but in just what capacity
do not know All he does is to dish up
some Salad Dishes" some Coffee
and Rolls, special page for Sunday,
writes editorials and editorial sQuib-
let's, interviews great persOnages and
| covers special and unusual occasions
| like the Haywood trial. In consider.
| able of this he is aided and abetted
| by Frank Wing, a gentleman who in
| our humble opinion has no peer as a
pen and ink artist. His pictures look
like the people portrayed and the pose
and expressions never fail to convey
the impression meant to be dissent.
mated. In his pictures of Mr.. Gray.
however. we believe he has wronged
previously this bonnie Scotchman.
Aside from his face, an ungainly gait
and bald spot on his Uranium caused
by worry and studying the antics of
scheming opponents in the great game
of evasive Elizabeth, he is good look.
ing man and Wing should not libel
him.
My visit was saddened by the fact
that death had called the wife of A.
j. Russell, the Long Bow man, and he
was away attending the buriai of all
! that remained of his one time loving
helpful partner. No part of this great
paper Is more readable than the
corner Mr.. Russell presides over with
such unfailing good humor and sue
| cess.
There are other people hid about the
premises but they are merely the own
ers and the sordid denizens of the
counting room who count the money
MADE by these real workers we have
] mentioned.