The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-03-07

r. c.. Chambers, of Dempster, and
DR.. Hess, of Estelline, We're in Brook
ings Friday on the way home from
Lake Preston.
First showing of pattern hats this
week, Friday and Saturday at Mrs.
Patterson's, second floor SINNERS
department store.
The big banana plant at the col
lege greenhouse is in bloom and this
extraordinary event is attracting quite
a little attention. A banana plant is
supposed to bloom once in every two
or three years, but this is the first
time this particular plant has put
forth a blossom during its long resi-
dence in Brookings. However, there
are e~Xtenuating circumstances has
he'd to be cut down every year to keep
it from growing out through the top
of the building. The blossom would
hardly do for a buttonhole bOquet, as
it is about two feet r and weighs
as much as a sack Of Perfection flour.
DR.. Horace w. Tilden, pastor of
the Baptist church, has received an
invitation from President A. J. Rob-
erts of Colby university, state of Main,
asking him to deliver the address at
the next commencement exercises in
June. This anniversary will be the
fortieth anniversary of the graduation
OF DR.. Tilden's class and it has been
twenty years since the institution o n
ferred upon him the degree of Doctor
of Divinity. 1t is needless to say
that DR.. Tilden is looking forward
to this reunion with a great deal Of
pleasure, as all the members of the
class are still living and, barring any
unforeseen event, expect to be present
at that time.
We happened into Jarvis Monday
while the force were busy separat-
ing the sheep from the goats" in the
seed orn supply, and were impressed
with the fact that this years seed
corn is not up to the usual standard,
and it behooves the farmer to thor
oughly test his seed if he wishes to
get proper returns from his land. Mr..
Jarvis bought the best corn he could
get, from a number of different 10
calities, and thoroughly tested each
ear, with the result that about half
Of it had to be discarded, as it did
not show the proper germinative pow
er in the tester. The average far
mer's seed Is probably not as good as
this corn and if he plants it without
thoroughly wedding out the poor ears,
he cannot expect more than half a
crop.
The coming Friday Is Jack Rabbit
day on the hill for it is then that the
manager OF that great book will make
his business announcement and start
subscriptions amongst the students
and ~townspeople. The plan adopted
this year is the subscription bank sys
tenn. All blanks are numbered, dated
and signed by whomever the buyer re
ceives it from. We keep the stub and
you get the duplicate on payment OF
SOC, the balance, 1925, to be paid upon
delivery of the book which will be
abount the middle Of May. You will
be waited upon within the next twenty
days, so do not fail to get one Of these
blanks. If you wait until the books
are here before you sign up they will
cost you $500. Save money then and
show us that you have the boosting
spirit, the spirit that makes for a
greater state college and a greater
city, for every annual sold is just
that much more advertising.
The city board of health met with
the council Monday evening to talk
over the incinerating plant PROPOSE
LtOH. hlICl Ndl ShooIIS IN oltudliOI
thoroughly it was decided not to ash
the citizens to vote bonds for a plant
this year, as the present condition Of
the city finances would not warranI
such a step. The city hall was con
structed at a cost Of $4,000, or $4,000
more than the bonds called for, ant
the city has other debts and bonds
outstanding which must be met. How
ever, the need OF an in%cinerating plan
is none the less apparent and the
question will have to be met in the
near future. This year a city garbage
collection will be established, which
will at least improve conditions. TIL,
old dump will be thoroughly oilet
and burned and another plot o
ground, removed from the city waite
supply, will be secured, whore. il tn
voters so decide, an inc~inerating plan