The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-12-01

Aegistant Postmaster Breed has
called our attention TO a new ruling OF
the p~ostofice department relating to
return receipts for registered mali.
The department has ordered nat here
after these receipts shall be furnished
only upon request by the sender,
which request must be made by an
endorsement upon the article to be
registered.
When YOU see a mistake in the
Daper. do not be too hasty in ~censur1ng
the editor, but first acquaint yourself
with he routine that the average news
gatherer has to go through IN getting
III his paper. First. he has TO hustle
around and find out what is going on.
then he will seat himself at his desk
and typewrite ii for the compositor.
He will then have TO read over all the
matter he has written and correct the
proof. On press day he will make up
the matter for the paper II II he is
not careful will pi a handful now n
then. After the first paper is printed
will glance over the pages TO see II
he has left anything out or has put q
portion of the type in wrong side up.
Verify. the life of the editor is not all
smooth sailing,
Kate and Virgil Boyles, of Mitchell,
have just issued their third novel OF
western life, entitled, The Spirit
Trail the story OF which is laid on
the reservation west of Chamberlain.
one Of the leading characters in the
book is a portrayal of the life OF the
late Bishop Hare. showing his early
work among the Indians, and the great
influence for good that he had among
them. The story brings in a pretty
romance Of the plains in which the
daughter Of the Indian agent forms
a delightful character in which the
treachery Of the Indians OF those days
and the Improvement which gradual
~ came over him is nicely depicted.
The other books of the Boyles are
"Langdon Of the Three Bars and
The Homesteadors.'
Onida a village Of perhaps three
hundred people maintains d public
reading room. 1t is a nice. comfort
able and clean place furnished with
mission library table. chairs and
book cases with a nicely selected lot
of newspaper and periodical reading
matter and seine TWO hundred well Sc
lected volumes OF current literature.
1t is maintained by the young ladies
Of the village, one of whom cares for
il evenings, but the remarkable thing
about il and the highest compliment
to the community is that it stands
open from I a. m. to I p. m. without
a caretaker, is visited by all classes
of citizens at pleasure and not so
much as a scrap of paper has been
carried away. 1t is far and away
the most attractive resort in town and
the young people assemble there
nightly for reading and social diver
siOn.-Pierre Dakotan.
The Degree of Honor lodge No. 6,
A. O. L. w. of Bookings. invited the
brothers of the Bookings Lodge A. o.
L. w. to meet with them at their last
regular meeting, November "a. To
say it was a social success and that
each one had a good time would be
putting it too mildly altogether.
Music by the orchestra, solos. singing,
readings. recitations (some of the lat
ter of I'VE olden time" that might
have been recited at some former in
carnation), speeches and puns occu-
pied the larger part of the evening.
Then followed refreshments served by
the sisters and when the first ones
were ready to go home it was well
toward the I'VE sma' hours" About
100 were present and many of the old
timers" declared it reminded them of
the time when the boys used to put
on the oriental degree. Let us have
more Of such meetings. Committee.