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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-05-19

ef. MCEIlluIIh, nay, Sutk III anu
Swering voting aye motion carried.
The bonds and oaths OF Office of
c. O. Trygstad for police justice and
w R. Stowe for city justice of the
peace were read
Moved and seconded bonds and
oaths of the above be approved and
placed on file
On roll call Bagley. Conklin, HOov-
er, McElmurry, Ray. Sherwin and
Swering voting aye motion carried
Oaths of office OF A Hoover. Ole
0. Jermstad. Henry Swering and f.
F. Bagley We're read.
Moved and seconded oaths of Office
Of the above be approved and placed
on file.
On roll call Bagley, Conkl'n, Hoov-
err. McElmurry, Ray, Sherwin and
Swering voting aye motion carried.
The newly elected aldermen then
took their respective places.
W. II. Conklin was nominated for
president of the council. There be-
ing no further nomination, Mr.. Conk-
lin was unanimously elected as presi-
dent Of the council for the ensuing
year.
A Hoover was nominated for vice
president and there being no further
nomination A. Hoover was unanimous
~ elected vice-president of the coun-
Gil for the ensuing year,
The mayor announced his appoint
tive officers.
G. II. Stoddart was appointed as
city auditor. Moved and seconded
the appointment be confirmed.
On roll call Bagley, Conklin, Hoov-
er, Jermstad, McElmurry, Ray, Sher-
win and Swering voting aye motion
carried.
G. A. Mathews was appointed as city
attorney. Moved and seconded ap-
pointment be confirmed.
On roll call Bagley, Conklin, Hooy-
er, Jermstad, McElmurry, Ray. Sher-
win and Swering voting aye motion
Nels' Gullick a appointed as chief
Of police. Moved and seconded APP
be confirmed.
On roll call Bagley, Conklin, Hoov-
er. Jermstad, McElmurry, Ray, Sher-
win and Swering voting aye motion
C. f. Sorenson was appointed as as
police. Moved and seconded
appointment be confirmed.
On roll call Bagley, Jermstad, Nc
Elmurry. Ray and Swering voting ave.
Conklin, Hoover and Sherwin no. A
majority having voted aye motion
prevailed.
A. w. Hyde was appointed chair
man of the board of health. Moved
and seconded appointment be con-
On roll call Bagley, Conklin, Hoov-
err, Jermstad, McElmurry, Ray, Sher-
win and Swering voting aye motion
L. j. Tisdale was appointed street
commissioner. Moved and seconded
appointment be confirmed.
On roll call Conklin, Hoover, Jerm-
stad, McElmurry, Ray and Sherwin
voted aye and Swering no; Bagley
not voting. A majority having voted
aye motion carried.
A. w. Morton was appointed super
intendent of water. light, heat and
telephone plants. Moved and second
ed appointment be confirmed.
On roll call Bagley. Conklin, Hoov-
er. Jermstad, McElmurry, Ray, Sher-
win and Swering voting aye motion
carried.
w. II. Murphy was appointed asses
sor. Moved and seconded appointment
be confirmed.
On roll call Bagley, Conklin. Jerm-
stad. McElmurry, Ray, Sherwin and
Swering voted aye. Hoover no; motion
carried.
The mayor then appointed the var
ious committees as follows:
Judic.ary-S wering, McEimurry,
Sherwin and Jermstad.
Finance-Conklin, Bagley. Ray,
Hoover.
Claims-Hoover, Conklin. Sherwiu.
Ray.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-05-19

Read the Register.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29

BUG HINDRANCE
TO PLANT LIFE
WEEDS, TOO, SUFFER FROM LICE
THAT THRIVE IN DRY
WEATHER.

A secondary effect of the dry
weather is seenin the multiplicity
of the bugs that infest such crops as
escaped the drouth. All kinds of
plant lice or aphidae abound, due
partly to the fact that the usual
storms have not destroyed them and
partly to show the growth the plants
are making The bug pest, however, is
not an unmixed misfortune, for two
of the plants botherd by the bugs are
the dandelion and the sour dock
Many dandelions are being put en-
tirely out of business by a brownish
aphid or plant louise, while the dock
is noticeable for numbers of black
insects it contains Among cultivat-
ed crops, beams, peas, lettuce and rad
ishes are loaded with the insects COM
monty known as the green bug or
green fly.
In many places mosquitoes are not
as common as usual due to a lack Of
water in which to breed. But while
we avoid the mosquito, the weather
is just right for multiplying another
pest called the chigger or red bug.
This is an insect much like the spider
in appearance, but so small that it
cam hardly be seen with the naked
eye. 1t is the delight of this inter
esting insect to burrow under the
skin of human beings, where it causes
intense itching and considerable in
aammation. If you have been pic
nicking in a dryish piece of land and
next day find parts of your body
broken out in the appearance of mos
quito bites, you may be sure it is the
chigger. 1t likes especially to burrow
in the flesh of the joints, in the arm
pits and under the knees.
Much complaint is being heard
from farmers about their clover hay
being covered with green lice in such
numbers that horses refuse to touch
it until it has laid in the sun long
enough after cutting for them to die.
The oldest inhabitants say they never
saw lice on hay before. They are on
everything else, too. Flowers of near
ly all kinds, golden glow, hollyhocks,
poppies, dahlias and many different
kinds of weeds along the roadside are
alive with black lice. Vines also suf-
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29

how to make one comfortable while
sleeping outdoors either in hot or
cold weather; how to 4 arrange
porch on a country house; and how
to build a cheap porch; the construc-
ton of tents and tent houses; the
kinds of beds and bedding to use in
outdoor sleeping and various other
topics. The book is well illustrated
and attractiveiy prepared.
The object of the book is to sug-
gest particularly to consumptfves who
cannot secure admission to a sana-
forum how they can be treated at
home under the direction of ply
sician In view of the fact that
there are less than $4,000 hospital
beds in the United States for con-
sumptives and fully 100000 who
should be in hospitals, the National
association urges that more atten-
ton be paid to sleeping in properly
provided places at home and that in
every case the best be made of the
patients environment.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29
SIX NEW ELEMENTS FOUND.

London Cor New York Sun.-Six
new elements have been discovered,
so Prof. Muthmann of Munich an
nounced the other day at the Con-
gress of German Chemists, by the
Viennese doctor, Auer Won Welsbach,
The news came by letter from the
inventor himself while the professor
was reading his paper on Rare
EarthS"
1t was to the effect that DR.. Won
Welsbacn had succeeded in separat-
ing terblum and thulium, previously
believed to be elements, into two
constituents each, and dysprosium
and gadolinum, two other rare ele-
mentary substances, into three each
The number of elementary rare
earths has thus been increased from
16 to %.
1t may be recalled that last year
DIR. Won Welsbach simultaneously
with the French scientist Urban
discovered that ytterbium, for so
years believed to be an element, was
Invisible. Since 1878 the Viennese
savant has added 10 elements to
those known to science, a record for
any single inventor, and an achieve
ment on which the congress sent
him telegram of congratulation.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29

per cent of all income. The CORES
ponding figures of the New York
Central were 1857 per cent and a
little less than IS per cent. The Lack
awanna, the richest road of its size In
the country, paid for operation 81 per
cent of all income and So per cent OF
operation earnings. To take an eX-
ample geographically far removed, the
Great Northern Railway, built up most
economically by the genius and energy
of j. j. Hill and fortunate IN non
competitive territory, paid in 1908
&c. 43 per cent for operation.
True, lat year was not a favorable
one. The New York Central's oper-
ating expense in 1905 was nearly four
points lower than in 1908, but the
average operation cost of all Amerl-
can railroads for a term of years IS
we'll above two-thirds.
What does the Interborough do with
all it's money? That part which 1t
pays to the city on subway bonds is
relatively small. No railroad in the
country pays SO low a rate of interest
On it's debentures, nor are there many
railroads whose interest payments are
so small in proportion to traffic In
come. Such roads as Great Northern,
which has no bonds, and Lackawanna,
which has relatively few ARE
marked exception.
The >Interboreugh pays per cent
guaranteed dividend on the watered
stock of the elevated lines. 1t pays 9
per cent on it's own stock, whose vol
ume is a triumph of corporate book
keeping over antecedent a sum equal
to 5 per cent on $23,000,0 00.-New
York World.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29
What Will Ii Cost?

Who can tell what the Panama
canal will cost before it is completed
In 1902, we were told the canal was
to cost $144,000,000, inclusive of police
and sanitation. In 1906 it was to cost
S139, 999,999, exclusive of police ana
sanitation, which will swell the total
some seventy-fve millions before the
end. Now Colonel Goethal's late~t re-
port, for the fiscal year ending last
June, forecasts total expenditure OF
1915, 100000. AS the canal will not
be completed before 1915, if then, and
the cost estimate shows a tendency
to increase at the rate of about
$200,000,000 every two years, the final
cost may easily reach the billion dol
Lar mark. The New York Evening
Post says that the increase is ex
planned as due in the first place, to
an addition of so per cent to the
amount of work necessary to be done,
and Of 20 per cent to the cost of labor
due to the enhanced cost of living,
the difficulty of attracting labor from
the United States, and the introduc-
ton of the eight-hour day" If only
one were sure that labor got the
money, one might the more compla-
Gently regard the increase in COST
ST. Louis Mirror.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29
HOW TO SLEEP OUTDOORS.
Pamphlet of Directions Issued BY
National Tuberculosis Association.

Pamphlet of Directions Issued BY
National Tuberculosis Association.
Directions for living and sleeping
in the OPEN air" is the title of
pamphlet being sent out today by the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis to it's
local representatives in all parts OF
the United States.
The pamphlet is meant to be a
handbook of information for any
body who desires to sleep out OF
doors in his own home. 1t empha-
sizes the fact that outdoor sleeping
is as desirable for the we'll as for
sick. The booklet will be sent free
of charge to anyone applying for it
at the headquarters of the National
Association for the Study and Pre-
vention of tuberculosis in New York,
or to the secretary of any local
state anti-tuberculosis association
Some of the subjects of which the
pamphlet treats are, how to take the
open-air treatment in a tenement
house; how to build small shack
or cabin ON a fiat roof in the city;
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29

ity to take his rest as other per-
sons take theirs was a decrease OF
few pounds in his weight.
After serving his township for sew
eral years and having saved enough
10 keep him comfortably. Wire re-
tired and lived in sleepless peace
with his wife and daughter. Even
during his recent illness mis- brain
never stopped working, but his ply
sicians said that did not seem 10
make his lung trouble worse. Gradu-
ally however, his condition became
worse, and his eyes closed for the
last time, he called his wife to his
side.
''The Lord be praised" he WINS
pered. I'm going to- sleep at-last. u
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29
Annihilating Space.

An interesting picture in the Worlds
Work for February shows a dinner
party of gentlemen in Washington
grouped about Andrew Carnegie, who
is delivering through the telephone an
address another party of diners in
New York. These last were the dir6c-
tors of the Associated Press, dined
by the New York Times. Each guest
had telephone beside his plate The
group in Washington consisted of
Graham Bell, Ambassador Bryce, Com
mander Peary and other important
folk, besides Mr.. Carnegie.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29
New York's Golden Subway.

The Interborough company, operat-
ing the subway and the elevated rail-
roads of New York county, reports
earnings for the year ended June 80
of $26.524, S94 from all sources. Its
operating cost was $10,74744S, which
is only little over 40 per cent. En-
Guiding other sources of revenue, save
the actual nickles of passengers, the
operation percentage is not quite -.
No steam railroad in the country
has anything approaching such rec
ord. The operation cost OF the Penn
svlvania in 1908 was IS per cent OF
operation earnings and not quite 40
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29
Another Kind of Hat.

A Baltimore man was recently show
ing his nice new opera hat to his little
nephew, and when he caused the top
piece to spring open three or four
times the youngster was delighted.
A few days thereafter the uncle, dur
ing visit to the same household,
brought with him a silk hat of the
shiny, non-collapsible kind. When he
was about to leave the house he en-
countered the aforesaid younster
running down the hall with what
looked like a black accordion.
Uncle Ed" observed the boy, this
one goes awfully hard. had to SIT
on it but even then l couldn't get IT
more than half shut. "-Lippincott's.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29
STILL ROOM FOR FARMERS.
Only Small Part of TiIiable Regions
Really Under Cultivation.

Farm, Stock and Home mas pub
lished a graphic exposition of the
proportion of the land of the United
States that is titled for the produc-
ton of various crops says the De-
troit News Tribune. Presumably 1t
is correct, but the published map Is
certainly an eye opener Although
we have an area approximatlng
100000 square miles exclusive OF
Alaska, all our main crops are pro-
duced on 455,77S of them.
Our national corn field measures
in the aggregate 10000 square miles,
equivalent to- the State of Montana
and one-third of North Dakota We
could put all our plasted area or
cotton in the State of Iowa and still
have room for all the tobacco fields.
All the hay fields, as we'll as all the
rye and buckwheat areas, would go
inside the State of South Dakota.
Our winter wheat fields would oc-
cupy only two-thirds of North Da-
kota, and all our spring wheat but
Oats would fill up the remainder of
that state. All the barley, fax and
potato fields would cover a scant
third of wisconsin, and the remain
der of that State and the upper pc
ninsula of Michigan would furnish
area for all the other crops produced
| in the country.
Argentina looms up as a rather
formidable competitor in the produc-
ton of cereals, but that is because
the area of planting is relatively so
much greater in proportion to popu-
lation. All the wheat, corn, oats and
fax grown in Argentina are produced
from an area equivalent to the State
of Louisiana. While it is true that
all our area is not available for
quite limited as to their area of pro-
fitable production, it is evident that
the greater part of the tillable land
is not titled at all, and that much
that is under cultivation is unskil-
fully titled. Since consumption in
CT6dSeS ldSJ0T ludH pIOuuCliOu, IL 10
evident that we must have a grad
ual division of existing farms.
The farmer may try for time to
hold fast to his hard earned ana
sometimes ancestral acres, but if the
steady gravitation of population to
the cities continues and leaves each
farmer dependent upon his own eff
forts, there will be a gradual realiza-
ton that it does not pay to hold
and pay taxes on idle acres. If the
acres that cannot be titled cannot
be devoted to grazing or to forest
or fruit planting, ultimately they
must pass into hands that are able
to- employ them in intensive farm
ing. When this realization comes
about it is probable that more boys
will be willing to stay on the farm
and that immigrants of the agricul-
tural class, instead of avoiding en-
plOyment on the farms, will seek
ownership of small plantations where
they and their children may estab-
lish independent homes.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29

fer. not the familiar Virginia creeper
nor the dainty white mountain, but
the bittersweet. In some cases the
ends of this excellent vine are killed,
growth thus being stopped for the
time.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29
The MayfIOwer of American chIvaIry.

The MayfoWer of American Chivairy.
The journalists Of the country are
delighted with Marie CorellPs recent
estimate of American men and women.
She infers that the chiyalry of Ameri-
can men came over in the Mayflower,
perhaps, as the Providence Journal re-
minds us, because so many good
things seem to have come over in the
Mayflower, including about twenty
five million dollars worth of antique
furniture. Perhaps chivalry came.
too, in spite of the fact that not a
single Mayhower man was ever known
to get up in a street car and give his
seat TO lady.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-07-29

A girl walked out of a bank the
other day, and we heard her say:
IN have the big head nowl" We
inquired, and found she had drawn
SO.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-14

third less In the production of coal.
On the other hand we never saw many
practical miners, a fact we'll known to
double 1t Is generally some inexperi.
enced man that has no confidence in
himself and don't want to take any
responsibility on himself, that wants
to work double, or in other words, he
wants to work with some one more
skilled than himself. It Is not mat
ter Of like or dislike with him, but a
matter OF dollars and cents.
The writer never believes In some
one practicdng at his expense, 50 he
wants to be classed among the advo-
Gates Of single work. AS far as men
being satisfied, he never has, neither
will he be on this earth, for he well
knows his life on this earth is only
pilgrimage of short duration and he
will only be satisfied when the final
Judgment is rendered and his spirit
located in some other hemisphere from
When no man ever returned. While
this is true, we hope neither en-
ployes or employers will use the adj
vantages gained to the detriment OF
some other person, and be fair with
their dealings with each other in a
business way, for experience has
taught us years ago, when we kick
over the trace chains Of reason. the
kicking strap OF public opinion Is al
ways ready to put on to hold us down
to what is honest. just and reasonable
in our dealings with men. SO we hope
our new agreement will be we'll re-
ceived and every one strive, to live up
to it. r. Williams
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-14
DECORATING THE GRAVES.

Decoration day was first observed
as the occasion for strewing flowers
on the graves of soldiers killed in
the civil war. The loyal comrades of
the heroes who fell fighting to pre-
serve the republic performed this an
nual service. AS the years passed and
death made heavier invasions into
the ranks Of the gallant "boys Of 81"
there were more graves to decors te
with flags and flowers, and fewer
comrades left to continue this labor Of
love and patriotism.
This year the Grand Army men in
Ottumwa have called upon the Sons
of Veterans to aid them on Decora-
tion dav. The sons have taken up the
matter cheerfully and will give every
aid to the remaining members of the
heroic old guard in bearing testimony
Of the nations great debt to it's sol
dier dead out many of the Sons of
Veterans are elderly and as the yea1s
mass their ranks will be invaded and
another readjustment must be made.
This has lead to consideration of the
suggestion that the school children be
enlisted in this patriotic service.
To have tie graves decorated an
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-14

Our Iowa senators should not take
themselves too seriously. The people
do not. Senator Dolliyer, in particular,
is really hard to follow. Two years
ago he made speeches against Cover
nor Cummins, now he is making
speeches against Governor Carroll. In
view of his lightning changes, how
ever, the Iowa Republicans will not al
low him to do some of their think
ing for Them" as he told them he
wanted to do, but will think for them
selves. The results that are accom-
plished at Washington, taking the
speeches of both senators Tuesday
night as evidence, shows that the men
whom our senators are complaining
of, are thinking while others are talk
ing. Some times too much talk OBJ
structs the power to think.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-14
PEACE RESTORED.

Editor Courier
Peace is restored and another agree
ment between the operators and min
ers entered into for the next two
years, and it Is to be hoped each size
will live up to the agreement to the
letter. The miners have every reason
in the world to be thankful for what
they received in various ways. While
the advance gained is not what many
of our members expected 1T was all
they were entitled to under present
conditions. The national convention
held in Cincinnati established the
price question and all that was LETT
for the miners to do was to insist on
this price in their respective home
districts. This they did, and received
what they asked for. as 1t was evident
to our mind the operators saw 1t was
useless to resist after the edict mad
gone out from Cincinnati, and we
were glad it did, for in this way each
operator knew just what to do. It put
him on equal footing with his competl-
tor and put his coal on the market.
The miners are to be congratulated IN
conceding to this. While the amount
given and received seems to be small
to each individual miner, and Is small,
note what 1t cost and the total rece1v-
ed. we have the figures before us 20
show our various conventions held
since the first Of January have cost
our membership in round numbers
$500, 900. While the amount received
will net our membership 100000 IN
wages from various sources, SO the
average intelligent Courier reader will
not be slow to readily see 1t was
good investment after all and the min
ers have every reason to be satisfied.
and we hope they will be. They gained
in many ways in bettering conditions
to work under. We will only mention
one in this letter. That one is on the
question of single and double work,
or in other words, one man in a work
ing place instead OF two. AS we have
learned years ago, one man can make
under any named condition alone one
dollar a day more than he can make
with two in the same place, on wages
alone. Besides, his expenses are one