The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-01-26
Local and Personal

Typewriter paper az inc heSlsleF VI
fee AZ rs and S. cents per box of 500
sheets.
Geo. Wells. who is now in business
az seneca. has been here this week
taking treatment at the hospital.
The passenger train from the west
Monday morning was over four hours
late. due to a derailment near Cavour.
Tha Neighborhood Club ladies sur
r~.,ed Miss Alice Mathews Saturday
afternoon and presented her with a
souvenir spoon.
Attorney Homer A. Hoover Of Onida
came down Thursday night and visit
eli until Saturday at the home of his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. a. Hoover.
Rev. Robert p. Doremus will read
The Shepard" a drama Of Russian
life uy Olive Tilford Dargan, at the
home of Iyie L. Lees, 80 Medary eve
nue. Monday evening, January 80, at 8
O'Clock This is the first in a series of
readings Of modern dramas. Single
admission % cents, course 81.
DR.. A. w. Hyde, a member of the
county board of insanity, informs us
that last yeal - notable for the
small number of people examined for
insanity in this county. In 1909 there
We're seventeen cases, about the aver
age. while last year only five people
We're brought before the board.
a man by the name of Stuart, add
vance agent for the Cast Aside" show
company, got into an argument with
the clerk at the Leon Thursday night,
and during the trouble he pulled q
slungshot and threatened the health
Of the clerk. He was arrested on a
charge of carrying concealed weapons
and brought before Judge Trygstad.
However, he vas able to prove that
The siungshot was not a very danger
GUS weapon and was carried largely
for a bluff, so the court let him off
after he had paid the costs Of the
action.
Some statistican figures that $780,
100000 every year is being diverted
from the local merchants of this coun-
try to the mail order concerns in the
great cities. How much of this mOnu-
m ntal mound of money goes out of
this community? Every dollar SO
spent helps to swell the heap in the
city that has no use for us except to
get our good money. Every dollar
mailed away helps to strangle enter
prise and scuttle prosperity right here
at home. When you strangle your
neighbor you strange yourself.-Ver-
million Republican.
The question of rabies is becoming
one of concern around Pierre. Two
persons, a small boy and a girl from
that city, have been taken to eastern
Institutes for treatment for bites of
supposedly rabid dogs, and Saturday
Miss Hintz of Fort Pierre was bitten
and left for Chicago for treatment,
General muzzling orders have been is.
sued. Owners of dogs say it is not
uncommon for a coyote to go rabid
and when in that condition it will at.
tack any dog which it may meet, and
whatever the record of the dog as a
wolf killer under ordinary conditions,
he will not even attempt to defend
himself in such cases, but will dc
everything possible to get out of the
way of the coyote.
We are indebted to j. w. Parmley
of Ipswich, president of the South Da.
kota Real Estate Mems association,
for an invitation and ticket to the
Booster banquet to be given at Pierre
on the evening of February Z. Mr.
Parmley says: 1T is stating facts
and not passing out boquets-when
say that the newspapers of South Da.
kota have been its one great adver
Using medium, and that this work has
been done willingly and enthusiastic
ally and without prospect of immedi
ate personal gain. At the meeting o.
our association to be held on the It'll
and Sth we expect to have the lead
ing men of the state, and to start
publicity campaign that will be o
far reaching effect. The movement i:
non-factional, non-political and not FOL
the purpose of making all office or ar
official. Purely for the upbullding o
a greater state out of n alread.
great"
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