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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-03

ROSE OF SHARON CHAPTER, o. E.
S. Stated meetings the first Wednesday
evening of each month at 730. All mem
bers sojourning in the city are invited to
attend
ELIZABETH a. THOMPSON, Sec.
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AUGUSTA LODGE, NO. 141, F. 1

A. NJ. Annual communication at 80 P.
n. Tuesday, Jan. A. Reports of officers
and election of officers for the ensuing
year. All sojourning brethren are cordial
" invited to attend.
- GEORGEW w. GIDDINGS, w. NJ,
w a. JACKSON, Sec.
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UNIFORM RANK, KNIGHTS OF

Pythias, King Company, No. 4. Regular
meeting first Thursday of each month.
Captain. JAS. A. WOODWARD.
..,.-,-. Recorder, HARRY Nj. HElsSE4.
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ODD FELLOWS HALL

ASYLUM LODGE NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at 1D o'clock
-. w. LOVEJOY, n. q.
= r. II. BROWN, Sec.
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HJEPATHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. 3

Meetings at 40 o'clock every second and
fourth Tuesday.
FRANK ]. HAM. G. y.
i G. w. MERRILL, Scribe.
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CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. Q p. M.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday at
8 o'clock.
VI JOHN j.. KELLER, Clerk.
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also sold to appreciative
buyers. Funeral emblems
made at short notice.
Phone orders promptly
filled.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-08-18
TR

Mrs. Miller was a ~Brookings caller
Monday.
Morris Settler was in Brookings on
Monday.
Wilbur Atkins called at Mr.. Moor's
Monday.
NJ. c. McRae was out driving for hi,
health Sunday. =
Fred Miller made a quick trip to
Aurora Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Budde attended church
in Aurora Sunday.
Pass Al3tott was east of Aurora on
Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Reeve vas an Aurora caller
one day last week.
Miss Grace Short was helping Mrs.
Hasgard Saturday.
James Hunter spent Sunday with
his nephew, Vern Bulen.
The recent rains have delays stack
ing and threshing somewhat.
r. NJ. Crawford called at l.. l..
Anderson's Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Mary Judd and family attend
ed church in Aurora Sunday.
Mrs. Elmer White of Moody county,
was calling in Trenton Friday.
Jerry Buckley made his Sunday af-
ternoon call as usual this week.
Thomas Biggar Is enjoying a visit
from his brother-in-law from Mime.
sofa.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. s. Carter and fam.
lily called at the home of Mary Judd
Sunday.
l Miss Anna Schlobohm is spending
a couple OF weeks with relatives near
Elkton.
Paul Holiday, who has been assist
ing Mr.. Atkins with his harvest, went
to Brookings Monday.
Miss Alice Mckinney went TO Brook.
ings this week, expecting to go to the
hospital for treatment.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-08-18
PARNElL

Ed Rufenacht spent sunday with
home folks.
Paul Heath was driving in west
Parnell Sunday.
Jack Dolan is threshing for John
Smith these days.
Several from here attended church
in Aurora Sunday.
Thomas LAWN is working for NJ.
y. Clark at present.
Mrs. Lou Bergman called at NJ. b.
Clark's one day this week.
Mrs. Pat Hurney OF Brookings, call
ed on friends here Wednesday.
NJ. b. Clark anG family were bust
ness callers in Eikton Saturday.
William Blake OF Sanborn, y. D.,
visited friends in Parnell Monday.
Olaf Olson returned to his home
at Washington Springs Wednesday.
Mrs. Sam Carman OF McKain, was
transacting business at John Cough
Inns Tuesday.
Miss Mamie Clark IS spending the
week at the home Of her sister, Mrs.
Lou Bergman.
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SINAI.
Plenty of rain at Sinai.

Plenty Of rain at Sinai.
Miss Bertha Simonson is central girl
now.
Albert and Hans Hanson have
bought a threshing outfit.
Stacking is nearly done and several
have begun shock threshing.
inga E~ngelsgard is back in Sinai
again clerking for A. Borsvold.
John G. Peterson, the livery man,
has moved into his new residence.
Mrs. II. c. Halyorson has returned
from a two months visit with friends
and relatives in Illinois.
Anton Anderson was taken to Volga
hospital last week for an appendicitis
operation. He is doing well.
The ladies aid society met at Mrs.
A. p. Tbompson's last Tuesday and at
Mrs. +. R%ensyold's Wednesday.
Oliver Slime Is visiting his parents.
He says that it is very dry in the
northwestern. nart, Of Tbs. state SEX
turned To get work.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-08-18
AURORA.

Plenty of rain just now.
Mrs. Ed Critics IS on the sick list.
Shock threshing has just sarted in
this section.
Mrs. S. w. Stone was in Aurora
Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. George Thornton has been
quite Ill the past week.
A son arrived at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. ID. A.. Johnson August 6.
Mrs. w. J. Hahn and Mrs. Thomas
Buckley visited relatives in Egan last
week.
The ladies' cemetery association will
meet with Mrs. Ed Arnott Friday,
August 26.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. ID. Lombard are
expected home from Portland the lat
ter Part of this week.
Mrs. Fred Baker, Lilah and Fances
returned Thursday night from a visit
with relatives at Gary.
Mrs. Tom Alton and son of Brook
ings, spent Saturday in Aurora the
guest of Mrs. Ed Korte.
Dick Cheatham accompanied Mrs.
Robinson TO Schaller, Iowa, where he
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-08-18
PRAIRIE HOME.

Orilla Hough is on the sick list.
Friends spent Sunday at the Bulls
home.
Mrs. erase spent Thursday at Lohr
Dancers.
Peltners entertained company 10 a
Sunday supper.
Mack Johnston and wife spent Sun
day at John Duff's.
Myrtle Olson is assisting Mrs. Robt.
B!akely cook for threshers.
DR.. Green made a professional call
in this neighborhood Sunday evening.
Frank Evans entertained friends
from Durand, Wis, Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. DR.. Kean spent one day last
week with her sister, Mrs. Ira Blake
ly.
Mrs. Sheldon and Flossie Rudolph
spent Friday afternoon at Mrs.
Foulke's.
Jessie Duff is over at Fountain as
sitting Mrs. Waiter Lieyan cook for
threshers.
Ethel Sloan is visiting at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Earl Killing for
a few days.
Blakely. Dancer and Jornline de-
livered hogs in Bruce Saturday to
Mr.. Caldwell.
Mrs. James Sloan departed Monday
evening for st. Cloud, MINI, for an
extended visit with her sister.
Tressie Duff returned to her home
after having spent two weeks assist
ing Mrs. Earl Mitchell with her house
work.
Mrs. Kelly of Brookings. was out
in this n~eighborhood Monday after
noon and she sold a sewing machine
to Mrs. Earl Killing.
Earl Lopez arrived Tuesday evening
from California and is visiting, at tbB}f
for a few days.
The many friends of Archie Rish
man Will be pleased TO know that he
is recovering rapidly from the opera
ton chat he had performed for an
pendicitis in the Brookines hospital
last Tuesday.
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Personal and Local

Watch for our great subscription
offer.
Miss Mable Croft departed Friday
for a month or six weeks visit at St.
Paul and Wateryille, Mimi.
expert, took his annual vacation BY
making the trip to Sparta with Com
pany c.
Daniel Casley, who was called here
last week by the death of his father,
returned to his home at Ryder, y.
d., Friday evening.
s. j. Rudolph, NJ. r. Wimsey and
T.. c. Olson went TO White in the lat
ter's auto Friday and spent the day
in the interests of the county fair.
George Cole left Saturday morning
for Chatfield, Mimi, to spend a few
days with his mother. His family
have been there for a couple of weeks.
Mrs. E. J. Bealer, who has been
visiting for two or three weeks with
her son, l.. L. Erb and family. return
ed to her home at Cedar Rapids, Iowa
yesterday morning.
Mrs. G. w. Pond expects to leave
next week for her home near Spokane,
Wash. She is very much pleased with
the west, although of course she misses
her Brookings friends.
Mrs. E. G. Grover and little daugh-
ter went to Minneapolis Tuesday
morning for a few days stay. While
there the little girl will take treat
ment from an eye specialist.
George P. Sexauer tells us that Mrs.
Sexauer and Laura and Elmer are now
in Switzerland and expect to go from
there to the Passion Play. They have
been having a most enjoyable time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Hanson returned
home Saturday evening from their
wedding trip, which they spent in Iowa
and Minnesota. They will reside in
the Thorson house on Sixth avenue.
The city schools will p e for the
fall term on Monday, September s.
The inside closets are not yet COM
pleted, but it is thought they will
be ready by the opening of school.
The city is putting in another W
from the Register corner TO the tele-
phone office. The old sewer was
not large enough and did not have
enough fall to take care of the de-
mands upon it.
Prof. A. B. Crosier has sold his
residence in northeast Brookings to
q j Fhttie Of the Dank OF Drookinxs
force. The Crosier family expect to
leave Brookings next month for Mon.
tana, where they will make their home.
H. F. Harlan and family Of Dell
Rapids came up in their auto the
Natter part Of the week and visited
over Sunday at the home of j. F.
Erwin. Mr.. Erwin and Mr., Harlan
made a trip by auto to Roberts coun-
ty Sunday returning Monday.
Mrs. Emor l.. Chlkins of Kalamazoo,
Mich. state president of the Michi-
gan w. C. T. T., will deliver a lee
ture on suffrage at the Baptist church
In Brookings IN September s at 8
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of the Interstate commerce commits
sion. Carload rates for grain and flour
have not been adjusted in twenty-six
years, while the interstate tariff has
been cut forty per cent. This gives
a big advantage to outside mills ship
ping into the state, and has put out
OF business a number of home mills.
Mr. SeXauer was APPOINTED one of a
committee to present the case.
Col. T. G. Orr spent several days at
Huron last week comforting with rail
road representatives and completed ar
engagements with r. c. Hayes of the
Baltimore e Ohio and b. f. Farrell
of the North Western for special trans
portation rates from South Dakota to
the G. A. R. e~ncampment at Atlantic
City, N. j. The special train will
start from Aberdeen and pass through
the central part of the state on Sep
TENDER 16 and arriving at Atlantic City
September Is. This will be a dandy
trip for the G. A. R. boys and no
doubt a big delegation of them will
go from here. Other citizens VIII,
want a nice trip should take advan-
tage of the low rates. Good stopover
are accorded and all the
points of interest in the east may be
visited. We will give the itinerary
and rates and other particulars in u
next issue.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-08-18

Judd Farmer, Farm and Home, Good
Housekeeping and three or four other
publications and is rated as a million
aire. He was much impressed with
the west, especially this part of it,
and said the appearance of this sec
ton betokens wealth and prosperity.
The authorities of Yale, Beadle
L~uo adnnto1 - ~~-~I unothod
OF causing the disappearance of I'M
desirable citizens. a flimsy jail has
been constructed ii which there is an
unfastened trap door. When a hobo is
lodged in Jail it usually does not take
him long to discover that the trap door
can be raised, and, using such caution
as he can, he raises the door and
makes his escape from the Jail and
town. In doing this he is doing the
very thing the authorities des'r e The
charge of Jail breaking, however, holds
good, and if the fugitive ever returns
the village he will have ample
trouble in store for him.
George P. Sexauer returned home
Thursday from a meeting Of the South
Millers' association at Aber-
deem. At the meeting Of the millers
1t was decided to demand Of the rail-
roads a more equitable adjustment Of
freight rates, and in ase the rail-
roads do not heed the appeal the mat
ter will be brought to the attention
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-08-18

Will visit for a few weeks.
VIII Blake and daughter, Gertrude
Of L~itchyille. y. D., are visiting rela-
tiyes in and around Aurora.
Miss May Conner returned t heI
home in Pipestone Saturday, after
spending a few weeks with her aunt,
Mrs. Asher Ripley.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Hiltz went down
TO Elkton Saturday noon 10 bid good.
bye to Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Hiltz, who
expected TO leave Sunday for their
home at Winona, MINI.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-08-18

o'clock p. m. Come out and hear Mrs.
Calkins, she has a message for you.
That the local business men are
anticipating a good business the COM
ing fall is evidenced by the large
stocks of fall and winter goods that
are arriving daily, Brookings county
will this year harvest a fine crop, and
"h-A~tini~ot~ 80 +ho fapm-
ers' prosperity.
The county fair hustlers are busy
these days and they report that the
outlook for the coming fair is most
%auspicious. The people over the coun-
t. seem to be taking more interest
than ever this year, and th7re is good
prospects of a fine exhibit as well as
a large attendance at the fair.
The Interstate live stock fair asso-
citation offers a first premium of $3.50.
and a second premium of 500, for the
best carload of fat cattle and feeders
shown at the fair. Cattle buyers rep
resenting all the leading meat packers
Of the country wiz be on hand to bid
for these cattle when they shall be
offered for sale after being judged.
Alice Mckinney Of Trenton TOWN
snip, was operated upon for appendi-
citis at the hospital yesterday morning
and is doing nicely. John Motter. who
was suffering with a bad case Of blood
poisoning, was discharged, completely
cured. He returned to his home at
Dempster. Mr.. Busett who was e
ed upon last week, was able to return
to his home at Hendricks today.
T. Q. Loveland has sold the little
u on Sixth street near his other
residence to ]. c. Mathes, the livery
man, who is moving it to Second
street, where is will be remodeled and
added to. The house was one of the
landmarks on that street and was
one OF the oldest in the city. Mr..
Loveland expects this fall or spring
to erect a large residence on the lot
vacated.
H.. F. Haroldson has rented his
building next to the Register Office to
Adolph Larson and Clarence Kaprud
of the Columbia clothing store force,
who will open a tailoring establish
ment there the first Of the month.
Both are first class tailors as we'll as
popular young men and should work
up a good business. Mr.. Haroldson
is making a number of improvements
about the building and they will have
a nice shop.
H. A. Williams was at Arlington last
week to attend q meeting OF the bank
ers Of this section. While there the
bankers were finely entertained at the
business mems club house at the south
end of Lake Poinsett, which Harry
says Is q dandy. The club house Is
commodious and nicely furnished and
is a source OF great enjoyment to
Arlington's business men as we'll as
He visitors fortunate enough to be
entertained there.
Herbert Myrick Of Springfield, Mass,
one of the Leading publishers Of the
country, spent a couple of days in
Brookings the last Of the week. Mr..
Myrick is the owner of the Orange
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EIGHTH GRADE EXAMINATION.

Notice is hereby given that the next
grade examination will be held
in the court house in Brookings. s. D.
on September l and 2, beginning 4
each morning promptly.
Malcolm Aldrich,
County Superintendent Of Schools,
Brookings County, 8. Dah
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-08-18

The Register desires a CORES
pondent at Aurora and Bushnell.
For full information regarding
same address the editor.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25
The Girl Behind the Counter

WOU have a great 6ezl of sympathy
Tor the working man and schoolgirl
oren who don't get proper food At
noon, ana I've no DOUBT you are right IN
pitying them and insisting that things
should be altered so far as they are con-
am a regular reader Of the Exchange.
sunday is the only time 1 have for read
ing II ! get in a chapter OF the Bible on
Of a daily paper, Il Is as much IS I can
DO I am too dead tired by night to do
ANYTHING AFTER supper but tumble into bed.
] promised my mother. who died when I
was IS. 10 read in the Bible and TO say
my PRAYERS night and morning.
What I began this letter 10 say is that
the worst fed class Of civilized human be-
hind the counters Of city stores 1 wonder,
sometimes, in reading your Talks, If you
have any idea OF what a dogs life we lead.
DO you know what the first employer I
had Il was l0 told me after I had been
IN MS store six months? I asked him If
! had not learned enough Of my business
10 warrant me in asking for a raise OF
salary he thought not They never
raised girls salary in the first year"
was getting Sc week and paying all ex-
Then ne turned in his chair from his
5esk: up 20 then he had talked 70 me over
his shoulder. lie stared me full in the
face and smiled very knowingly.
You are blamed good-lool-nr girl"
he said You ought to make more money
put Of wolkhours than in them
! suppose YOU are shocked at that and
maybe won't print il in your family paper
Which is TO be read BY other girls who
won't understand what he meant any
more than ] did until an older and a wiser
Bur what / have written is Gods own
truth, Lots OF working girls viii corrob-
Yet We keep straight and try to DO our
best-or the great majority OF as do-and
this is how we live: I have a hall bed
room with door and one window. and
that opens upon a court-maybe twenty feet
wide The room is on the sixth floor and
there is no elevator. But the air is bet
Ter up there than on the lower floors. and
can see the blue sky on clear Sundays
warm the room IN winter with an oil
stove Ny room is clean and the furniture
ls decent. Breakfast ia the general din
.nF room Of the boarding house We have
bacon, potatoes. boiled eggs for those
Who are not overnice as TO the age and
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25
Old Recipe for Ginger Beer

1 observe in the Exchange a request
for English brewed ginger beer.
reduced according to requirements 1t Is a
wy ysry thankful a t1 Il you y, Sill forward i %
your Exchange so that she may see it.
Ginger Beer
Powdered sugar, 20 pounds: lemon or lime
juice thuid). lS ounces; honey, pound:
bruised ginger root, 2 ounces: water, Is
Soil the ginger in q. gallons Of water for
half an hour. Add the sugar the lemon
Juice and honey with the rest Of the water. s1s.A
ture is perfectly cold add the beaten white
OF an egg and an ounce Of essence Of Ienlon-
Let it stand four days before bottlipg IL
JOSEPH G. Wilmington. Dell.
You have taught Us how to make what
must be a gratefully refreshing bever-
age and q non-intoxicant. Housemothsrs
should hail as boon the addition ~
every palafable soft drink to their
stock OF tempting dainties
Since the days OF Noah until NOW.
when the corner saloon Is ar enemy not
boys. the longing for something to
drink" has held Its high place in the hu-
man system. Why II should be stronger
in men than IN women may not be plaus-
IDLY explained. The fact remains that
the thirsty boy bankers for the coolin~
stead OF ignoring or condemning It. the
wise parent gratiies 1t with innocent
compounds. such is lemonade ginger
ale. raspberry and blackberry vinecars.
kurniss and the ike. Sweet cider is nom
dreH. easily digested.
A delicious drink is made BY adding to
ginger beer or ale lemonade and mint
leaves. The ale is poured in last. Just
before the beverage is served.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25

quality Of eggs) tea and coffee bread
and butter. On Sundays there are gTiddle-
cakes and sausages. or hshcakes. The
cooking is what might be expected in a
fourth-rate boarding house.
I began this TO tell you how we fare in
the middle OF the day. You don't know
never having stood behind the counter
how tired we get after between four and
i've hours standing upon a hard floor.
We are not allowed to sit down, and the
fioorwalker frowns il we lean against the
shelves behind US. He says it "looks lazyv'
He is a strong, husky fellow and prob
ably never had an aching spine and head
ana feet that burn and swell and ache like
the toothache most of the time
We take turns to go out to lunch. Some
times 1 do not get of before o'clock in
haven't a chance to slip out at all from
morning until evening
nearest respectable place that is cheap.
What do eat? Sandwiches, Of course! You
quickest and cheapest OF luncheons. have
an hour for incoming" In the height OF
TO be back inside OF half an hour. II I
call for hot soup l wait ten minutes to
The sandwich is right at hand and it costs
cents whereas the soup is 10 cents. My
wages are $40 a week. I pay 81 for my fur
food served in the boarding house. My car
fare is 10 cents a day. And the girl behind
laundry bin is 65 cents a week Let your
-ready-reckoner'' compute how much have
10 spare for hot lunches Mo- the ready
sandwich. the cream puff or cooky washed
down with ''stewed', tea. are our neces-
not to eat when they are tired. If obeyed
you / should never eat a mouthful You
say. too, that one must think OF cheerful
things while at the table. Oh, it is so easy
for you and your kind of talk. I don't
mean TO be disrespectful but you see you
just don't know how we live and that we
can't do any betterl
can hear YOU say, why don't YOU take
a place in family?' In the first place.
don't know one thing about cooking or wait
ing, and can't walt to be taught In the
next place, / would sooner beg my bread
IN the street than be put on a level with
the herd of arabs that I'll our Kitchens
Put Il 10 yourself, and say IL you could
submit 70 the degradation? l am an Amer
lean girl. the daughter OF a minister and
my mother was a lady, born and bred I
Just can't hobnob with Bridget and Dinah
and be chrcked under the chin by the
coachman or chauffeur
False pride, hear YOU saw Perhaps sol
But put YOUR own daughter Gf you have
onel ~ my place and tell me what you
Don't comfort yourself bv saving that
mine Is an exceptional case i tell Won
there are 1000 girls in this big city who
would tell you the same story-and rranv
truth. N
All this brings me back to the starting
point The girl behind the counter needs
more PITY and gets less than the women in
any other class. Her complexion her boi-
low chest and her thin hands and arms tell
the story II you would but look az her long