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

The county instead Of the township
is made the unit of school govern.
ment. There is a county board Of ed
ucation consisting Of five members
working without pay. They are
charged with the establishment Of a
uniform system of county schools
They purchase, build and maintain
and repair all buildings, hire all teach.
ers including the county superintend'
ent, furnish all apparatus, including
free textbooks, maintain all summer
schools or night schools under GER
tain conditions, beautify and equip
school grounds, provide for proper
heat, light, ventilation and water sup,
ply-and provide these advantages for
every child of the county whether his
district be large or small, rich or poor
One local director in each district is
elected for a term OF two years. He
is to act as agent for the county board
in his district, taking charge Of all
school matters and reporting to the
board, with the right to be heard but
not to vote at its meetings.
If the coming legislature should
adopt the proposed code it is interest
ing to consider what effects this fea-
ture of it would have on our present
problems. Many are wondering if it
would simplify such matters as trans
portation, more sC~hOol-hOuses, or cen
tralization, length of term, wages. sup
ply of teachers and compulsory school
attendance. 1t seems probable that
the larger district would make it pos
sible to levy a proper tax without con
sidering local sentiment, and that
forward steps could and would be de-
liberated on more impartially.
The same bill provides that the state
superintendent shall be selected by
the state board of regents just as the
president of any of the normals or
the university-thus taking the office
out of politics.
The revision of the state course of
study occupied a part of the time in
the county superintendent meetings.
This work has taken two years but is
nearing completion. An extra session
Of the Guperintendents is to be called
the last week in December to meet the
Colllulltttt anu pass up'h thC III"
draft of the course. 1t Is believed that
then it will be ready for use within a
month or six weeks.
The parties who drew up the new
code are not drawing upon their imag-
nations for what they are presenting,
but they have made a careful study OF
the laws of New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Washington, Georgia,
Texas, ETC., and have taken the best
they could find in the laws of all these
states, using only such measures as
r likely to prove the best for our
own state. Some of the changes they
propose may seem very radical to us
at first glance, but the we study
them the more we r convinced that
there are many good things in 1t that
wiz vastly improve the present school
system. II may take a campaign OF
education Of school officers and voters
a. we'll a. OF members Of the state
legislature, before any such measures
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-12-01

E. C. MILLER, M. D.-Physic.an and
surgeon. Hours: 9 to 1870 a. m.
1870 to 4:30 p. M. Z to s p. N.
Phone, office, 70; residence 275.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-12-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

A man never knows how many Of
his wife's relatives he married till
they decide it for him.
Chorus girls sing with their toes;
they want their admirers to applaud
with their pocketbooks.
A man can have such a good opin-
ion of himself there is no room for
him to have one OF anybody else.
The more money a man a drink
and smoke away on himself the more
II would seem II he were spending 1t
for clothes on his family.--New York
Press.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-12-01
RrRDsEYE VIEW OF BROCKxNGs.

No Saloons.
Two Banda.
One Bakery.
Three Hotels.
Three Dentists.
Six Physicians.
Two Laundries
One State Bank.
Eight Churches.
Two Osteopaths.
One Music Store.
Big FIGURING Mill.
-Four Restaurants.
-Four Drug Stores.
One Machine Shop.
Two Meat Markets.
Two Cigar Factories.
Fine Lake Near City.
Three Barber Shops.
Three Weekly Papers
Two National Banks.
Four Grain Elevators.
Three Lumber Yards.
Moving Picture Theatre.
City of Beautiful Homes.
Best Schools in the State.
Good Water Near Surface.
Marble and Granite Works.
-Four thousand Inhabitants.
Glove and L..tlen Factory.
Cement Block Mandatory.
100000 Brick School Building.
$40, 600 Grad School Building.
Municipal Telephone Exchange.
One Bonded Abstract Company.
One Semi-Monthly Farm Journal.
county seat or Brookings County.
United States Experiment Station.
Seven Hundred Students In College.
Municipal Sewer and Waterworks.
Finest Church Buildings in the State.
One Monthly Periodical, The Collegian.
First-class Opera House and Auditorium.
State College OF Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts.
over Nine Hundred Students in the City
schools.
Two Billiard Halls and Bowling Alley as
places of amusement.
Electric Light and Heating Plant Owned
md Controlled by City.
Brictson Manufacturing Company, makers
'f the Brictson Tire Tread.
Surrounded by the best farming land in
he state, where crops are sure and bountiful
Beautiful trees line the streets and the
city presents a fine appearance, matted as
{ IL In the midst OF a fine growth OF shade
and ornamental trees. Her citizens are will
ng and ready to encourage and assist every
1elpful industry.
Home Of the Brictson Tread.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-12-01

can become law, but undoubt' dly
South Dakota does not mean to stay
so far behind the other states as not
to know or hear Of the improved
school conditions existing in the va
rious sections of the Union.-Vermil-
lion Republican.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-12-01

:. ROYS-General practitioner and
surgeon, also special attention given
lung troubles, piles and chronic dis.
eases. Rooms 4 and 5 Binford block
Office hours: 10 to 70: 2 to S
Phone, 10; residence, BIOL. Resi-.
dence, corner Medary avenTe and
Williams street.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-12-01
Professional Cards.
MUSICIANS.

3. T. GREEN-Physician and surgeon.
Office, Binford Block, Room 1. Phone
BE-. Hours 8 a. m. to II m. l p.
m. to 5 p. II. Residence 715 9th
Ave, Phone 293. Hours 5 p. m. to
9 a. m, IL m. to l p. m. Calls
answered at all hours.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-12-01

Typewriter paper at the Register Of
dee 1t Is and s. cents per box Of 500
sheets.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20
Automobile Elopment

Gomez was somewhat surpris-
ed last Sunday morning when
the news was flashed from mouth
10 mouth that two Of her popular
young people had been joined in
holy wedlock, and such was the
fact. AS service was about to
open in the Methodist church, a
young lady. Miss Ruth Rogers,
was seen TO leave her seat. In
front Of the church stood a puff
ing. grunting automobile. in
which sat Mr.. W. u. Benson, a
prominent Lubbock attorney. as
chauffeur. Mr.. Liss George and
the groom, Mr.. Wess Key, of
Gomez. Before anything was
suspected. Miss Rogers had en-
tered the auto and was whirled
rapidly away in the direction of
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20
Newspapers are important

Homer d. Wade, in his great
speech at Henrietta last week,
stated that all agencies for town
building combined, pale into in
significance when compared with
the town paper. In fact, Mr..
Wade said, without a good town
paper to support the movement,
the work of a commercial club
is in vain. -Crosbyton Review.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

est of everyone and the attend
ance should be large. CONNER.
cial clubs, Farmers Institutes,
Banking interests, Railroads and
business men generally, should
interest themselves in coming.
1t will be free from politics or
personal ambitions, and is solely
for the betterment of our condi-
tons.
AVERY TURNER,
Chairman of Committee on
the Development of Natural Re-
sources of the Panhandle Coun-
try.
C. T. GEBHARDT
Secretary of Chamber of
Commerce. F."
The Dairying Congress in Am
arillo February 4th is the most
important event scheduled for
West Texas for the opening
months of this year. Great pre-
parations are being made to in
terest the entire West Texas,
Eastern New Mexico, Western
Oklahoma and Southern Colora-
do in the initial meeting Of what
will doubtless become a perma-
nent organization.
The sections just mentioned
above have all the requisites
that go to make for profitable
dairying. The Plains are the
natural home of cattle; the soil is
especially adapted to all forage
crops; the range is rapidly fad
ing before the pillow; and the de-
mand for all forms of dairying
products is now far in excess OF
the supply.
1t takes capital rightly placed
and concerted action to material
ize the dairying industry, and in
issuing the above call for a con-
gress to interest the farmers
and ranchmen of this vast do
main in this pursuit. Chairman
Avery Turner Of the Committee
on the Development of Natural
Resources and the Amarillo
Chamber Of Commerce, hope TO
attain this end.
1t is hoped that all the papers
of this section will reproduce the
above call for The benefit Of their
readers.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20
Bowman LumbetCo. % YOUR @s s:;:s::.

Plains, some twenty-eight mics
west of here, arriving there in a
very short while The wedding
occurred in Plains, Judge Holmes
officiating, and after a sumptu-
Gus dinner, the happy couple re-
turned to Gomez and TO the home
of the groom's parents. The
Review offers sincere congratu-
lations. Gomez Review.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20
W. G. ,. ".
MRs. 5. r. STUBS, Editor

The w. c. T. u. meets with
Mrs. Wheelock, Thursday the
q. at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Sims.
mother of Mrs. Garrison and Mrs.
Mayfeld, will probably meet
with us. She halls from Denni-
son, Texas, which until very re-
Gently was her home. She is a
staunch worker in the w. c. T..
T., and a woman of culture and
refinement. And ! thought
when by happy chance, met her
how like the meeting of old
friends, to see and converse with
her, whose very heart beat is in
unison with our own. We found
her a typical White Ribboner,
Just like the dear women in the
north, whom left to make my
home in the Sunny Southland.
She spoke so lovingly of Mrs.
Helen M. Stoddard, who is now
in California for her health, she
was for a long time President Of
the State W. c. T. L. She
quoted Mrs. Stoddard as saying
that, the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union represents
the conscience Of the Church. "
And now dear sisters and breth-
eren too. in the different church
es if your conscience troubles
you, just pause and ask yourself
if il is not because you haven't
Joined the w. c. T. L. Our
Superintendent Medal Contests
now has a class of seven or eight
xide awake girls of Lubbock
who will soon be ready for the
entertainment 10 be given by
them. Look for further notice
The National Tribune published
in Washington, d. c., said that
Carrie Nation. the saloon smash
rer, tackled the saloon in the
Union Station one day last week
and what she did was good and
plenty. The men in that gilded
and bedecked place Of raw Hhis-
key and its various compounds.
fled when Carrie got busy with
her Ratchet She was arrested
and placed in Jail, and later was
fined 500. She stated when
asked 10 stand sentence: oh,
that amt so bad. il could have
been worse. but | VIII never pay
that 500. not me. The Tri-
bune further adds. after all why
should il be considered that Mrs.
Nation is any more obstreperous
and undesirable as a citizen than
the blooming sufragettes. head
ed by a New York society woman
in the person of Mrs. Belmont.
In one sense Of the word Mrs.
Nations Ratchet is really making
for moral reform and good citi-
zenship. and we can't be so sure
the Suffragettes are.
Press Supt.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20
DAlRYlNG CONGRESS
Big Event February 4th viii
Make History In The Amar-
lilo Country,

The enormous results obtain
ed in other states and countries
notably in Wisconsin, Ohio,
New York and Denmark and
Holland from the sale of dairy
products and the fact that we
have the grass. water and a far
better climate, and instead Of
producing anything, we now i'm
port dairy products needed for
our own consumption, and ad-
vertise vast tracts of the finest
dairy lands for sale. And as the
population of this peculiarly well
adapted country has increased
from ten thousand people to one
hundred thousand in six years,
we can expect it to reach mil
hon in another generation, there
fore, il is now the time TO learn
what to do and do it now.
The first necessity is organi-
zing for the promotion Of
knowledge of both the necessi-
ties for providing for the future
population and how to begin apd
push the work. Wisconsin start
ed with the Dairymen's organia-
ton and now sells sixty million
dollars worth of products per
year Denmark sells seventy
five millions yearly. Following
the products Of milk, we should
sell poultry, eggs and hogs in
connection with a wide diversi-
fcation of crops to make a pros
porous country.
We now have completed a
packing house at Amarillo an ] to
start with should install a cream
cry and also handle poultry pro-
ducts, installing others at vaIi-
Gus centers as fast as the demand
and capital will permit For
these reasons IL is now believed
the time has come TO call a Dai-
rymen's Congress at Amarillo on
February 4th. to consider the
formation Of a general organiza-
ton taking in the territory east
Of the Pecos river in New Mexi-
co. Southern Colorado. and all
that part Of Oklahoma west Of
Woodward. and in Texas, from
the Texas a. Pacific railroad,
eastward % Abilene, and north
TO Wichita Falls. When this or
ganization is completed, it is
proposed to form local working
organizations throughout the ter
ritory for the purpose of supply
ing creameries and Swimming
stations.
There will be present at this
congress men who will tell us
how to organize and what TO do.
The national and state govern
ments are interested. We should
procure a State experimental
dairy at best location.
This congress is in the inter-
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

Admiral Schleg says that the
navy needs renovating. This may
or may not be true. ID. j. Wood
tells you to insure and it leaves no
doubt in your mind about being
so. Room s Lubbock State Bank
Building. % 2t
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

Love at first sight may prove
Disappointing but if your home
burus and you have a nice line OF
insurance, the kind that :. p Rob
bins & Company write. you will
never feel that dark hour come
stealing over YOU. - 2t
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

Latest reports are to the effect
that there was a terrible wreck on
the Fort Worth & Denver. This
is sad news and makes the heart
ache, but it is mild TO the news
that your home was burned with
out letting :. p. Robbins q Com
pany insure il. 27 It
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

w. 0. Worthington of Plain
view. had business here this week
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

Messrs L. T. Mayhugh and
Albert Him of Plainview, were
visitors in Lubbock last week.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

P. w. Smith of Plainview, was
here the early part of the week.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

R. O. Gordon of Childress was
here the first of the week.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

j. A. Brasher Of Plainview,
was a business visitor here this
week.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20
BuggfesI Buggiesl

See our niqE line Pf buggies,
steel and tub9eEtiYc. The prices
and terms%ill bleAse<you. Lub-
book Liverv~t6mpany, w. 9.
Mathis, manager. ~ 1t
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

T. B. Preston of Tahoka, was
here the first of the week.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

Dock Powell of Brownfeld,
was here Tuesday.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

j. O. Jones of Brownfeld, was
a business visitor here the early
part Of the week.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

p. n. Lund of Kress, was il
the city this week.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

Geo. S. Morris of Hereford,
was here this week on business.
The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1910-01-20

lam going, ~ 'pake so much
NOISE that eytryEnfG.evemau and
child will kboYLfhi u Lubbock,
Martin llOuM-3akerv. 2s IL
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-01-21

The state board OF health and the
school authorities are working together
with the object Of having health inspec.
tion Of schools, with particular reference
to incipient cases of tuberculosis among
children. It is stated, however, by those
who have looked up the matter, that at
present we have no law by which child
with case Of tuberculosis could be de.
barred from school privileges. However
no sensible parent would insist, or even
desire, to send such a child to school
The chances Of recovery In such cases
is slight and therefore there would be
no object in the child trying to study,
but more than that every possible effort
of which child or parent is capable
shonld be used II combating the disease
But the inspection would prove the ex.
istence Of the disease to parents and pa.
itients who are naturally very 10th, to be.
lieve. Teachers may suspect, but the
physicians can know, and thus many
cases be eliminated from school rooms
whore contagion is 90 likely.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-01-21
Flax Straw.

That the resources of North Dakota
pre-eminently fit it for manufacturing
state, is beginning to find many adher-
ents among we'll informed men. The
vast deposits of coal, the millions of tons
of flax straw which are now burned an
nually, would, if made into linen, give
employment to 100000 people, and the
finished product would have value at
the mill door of s24O,O0O,OOO.
1t is the general belief that nearly all
the linen used in the world is made IN
Ireland; this belief is not warranted by
the facts. Germany, Belgium and France
manufacture linen goods on large scale.
Then again, contrary to the general
belief, Ireland raises only small portion
of the straw that it uses in the manu-.
fure of linen, the greater part of the
straw coming from Russia.
Of the flax straw used in the manu-.
facture of linen in the entire world, Rus
sia raises S5.2 per cent, Austria 6.3 per
cent, France 2 per cent. Italy 2 per
cent, Belgium 1.3 per cent, and Ireland
IL per cent Now, North Dakota raises
as many, if not more tons of flax straw
than Russia.
Professor H. Bachelor of Fargo, has
made an exhaustive study of North Da
kota flax straw. He gives it ss his opin-
ion that the straw is suitable for the
manufacture of linen goods, not only of
the inferior grades, but also the finer
qualities. He states it as his belief that
in generation North Dakota will be-
come the linen center of the world.
Nearly all of the machinery used in
the manufacture oflinen from flax straw
is made in England, and the import duty
is heavy. The duty on about 100000
of machinery would be about 100000,
which of itself would impose a heavy
burden on the new industry.
At the 1st session of the 6lst Con.
gress, a bill was introduced known as
McCu,nber Amendment to the bill (H.
r. 1439 "That all the machines used for
the manufacture Of linen or cloth from
flax and flax fiber, imported prior to
January 1st, nineteen hundred and
twelve, shall be admitted free of dnty.
Thanks to the efforts of Senator Nc.
Cumber this bill becomes part of the
tariff law.
As result of this law, machinery has
been ordered IN England by the Flick
ertail Linen Mill Co. The company will
commence the erection of factory early
next summer. The site selected is in the
coal belt and manufacturing town will
be established. This will be the begin
ming of the linen industry in North Da-
kota, and important developments may
be looked for.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-01-21
Dissolution Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the CO.
partnership between John 8. Bergman
and Stephen NJ Breidfjord heretofore ex.
isting under the firm name Of Bergman
l. Breidfjord, doing general mercantile
business at the village of Gardar, IN the
county of Pembina and State of North
Dakota, has been dissolved by mutual
agreement this 10Th day of May, A. D.
1903, the said John s. Bergman retiring,
but the said Stephen NJ. Breidfjord con-
tinuing said business.
JOHN 8. BERGMANN,
8. M. BRE1DFJORD,
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA,
County OF PEMB1NA
On the 10Th day Of May, A. D., 1909,
before me personally appeared John s.
Bergman and Stephen NJ. Breidiord, to
me known to be tho persons who exc
icuted the above agreemento OF dissolution
% partnership. and they acknowledged
10 mo that they executed the same.
I JONAS HALL,
Notary Auhlic.
Nv comniasion expirss Sept =, 1914
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-01-21
their case, and their proper cognomen

their case, and their proper cognomen
was progressive" But since the late
rebellion in congress we note that they
somehow recall the former designation.
and all that we hear now is ''insurgent"
again. If, as the name would imply,
these two are one and the same, the
North Dakota crowd by prestige of
about three years precedence had the
right to give the congressman the name
instead of the opposite. as seems to have
happened. However, they will smell just
the same, no matter what the name.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1910-01-21
SOUND LOGIC.

Farm produce of all kinds is soaring
in price, and the farmer that has raised a
fairly good crop of any of the staples is
able to dispose of his surplus at figures
as high as have been quoted in recent
years. During the past week fax has
been selling in Minneapolis and Duluth
at more than s2.20 per bushel, wheat at
more than Sl.18, corn at more than 60
cents, oats 45 cents, barley 65 cents,
pork So. Is to $S.40 per hundred. Beef,
mutton, cotton, butter, eggs and other
products of the farm are equally high,
and judging from the constantly advanc-
ing prices, the high water mark has not
been reached. The farmer who owns
100 acres of good North Dakota soil can,
by ordinary prudence, careful tillage and
intelligent methods make a larger profit
from the proceeds of his farm at these
prices than can the man engaged in al
most any other line of business with a
similar investment. At the present time
a good quarter section of land can be
bought for from 5000 to $1,000 and the
rate Of interest on the investment from
crops at present prices is marvellous.
Either the prices of farm produce must
come down soon and come down long
way from their present standard, or the
value of the lands in this section of
North Dakota will double in the next
ten years. The farmer who owns a good
quarter of Red River Valley land is to
be congratulated, and should think q
long time before parting with it.-Walsh
County Record.