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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-11-07
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS
Council Hall,
City Of Brookings.

City Of Brookings.
November 4th, 1912.
City council met in regular session
with Mayor w. Fl. Leighty, Aldermen
Hoover, Hoy, Jermstad, Roberts and
Youngberg. present. Conklin and
Moore absent.
Minutes Of last regular meeting were
read and approved.
Committee or claims made favora-
BILE report on the following bills:
Brookings County Telephone Co
collections $6O.40
w H. Leighty, quarter salary
as mayor .................. 1900
F. w. Cuckow, quarter salary
as attorney .............. 1900
A. w. Hyde. half year salary 50
Chairman Board Of Health. 5000
A. Hoover. half year salary
alderman l2.5O
X. H. Hoy, half year salary Q
alderman 1880
o. o. Jermstad, half year salary
alderman l2.5O
F. e Youngberg, half year sal
airy, alderman ............ 1880
c. c. Bradbury, half year salary &
alderman lZ.5O
". II. Conxiin, half year salary.
alderman 1880
e. L. Moore, haf year salary,
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-11-07
Yankton

Referec-HOlmes Sioux Falls. Umpire
Patty, Bookings. Headlineman-Roberts,
Brookings. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 2; Robin
son /. Substitutes-Dunn for Knox: sham
Der for Nelson; Miller for Houghton; Nc
Arthur for Robinson. Length OF Quarter Is
minutes.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-11-07
BIRDS EYE VIEW

No Saloons.
Two Bands.
Two Hotels.
Fine Hospital.
Three Dentists
Six Physicians.
Eight Churches.
One State Bank.
Two Osteopaths.
Steam Laundry.
One Music Store.
Chinese Laundry.
Three Drug Stores.
Big FIGURING Mill.
1000 City Hall.
Three Restaurants
One Machine Shop.
Three Barber Shops.
Two Meat Markets.
Three Tailor Shops.
Two Jewelry Stores.
Two Livery Stables.
Two Cigar Factories.
Two National Banks.
Three Lumber Yards.
Four Weekly Papers.
Fine Lake Near City.
Two Furniture Stores
Four Grain Elevators.
500. 900 Court House.
One Department Store.
Four Blacksmith Shops.
Moving Picture Theatre.
Two Exclusive Groceries.
City OF Beautiful Homes.
Two Large Auto Garages.
Good Water Near Surface.
Glove and Mitten Factory.
Four Thousand Inhabitants.
Best Schools in the State.
Cement Block Mandatory.
Marble and Granite Works.
$40, 900 Brick school Building.
One Bond Insurance Company
Two Exclusive Clothing Stores.
Culhane Adjustment Company.
$50, 900 High School Building.
State Circuit Court held here.
Municipal Telephone Company.
Educational Center OF the State.
Two Plumbing and Heating Firms.
Municipal Sewer and Waterworks-
Good Volunteer Fire Department.
United States Experiment Station.
One Gents Furnishing Store.
Three Exclusive Millinery Stores.
County Seat of Brookings County.
High School on the Accredited List.
Seven Hundred Students In College.
Over $500. 900 invested In Education.
Finest Church Buildings in the State.
Best Bakery in Eastern South Dakota.
$4,000 Invested in Beautiful Churches
Finest County Fair Grounds In the State
First-cIass Opera House and Auditorium
Seven Hundred Students IN Grade Schools
State College of Agriculture and Mechani
New 500, 900 Agricultural Building a
State College.
Two billiard Halls and Bowling Alley a
places OF amusement.
Electric Light and Heating Plant Owne'
and Controlled by City.
Brictson Manufacturing Company. maker
If the Brictson Tire Tread.
Strong Commercial Club with 23o Mem
pers in Good Standing. Fine Club Rooms
Surrounded by the best farming land Il
he state. where crops are sure and bounti
full.
Brookings is Located on the Main Line o
The C. & N. w. Ry. from Chicago to Pierre
the Capital OF the State. Also Headquar
ters for Train Crews Running North I
Watertown and on to Redfeld and Gettys
burg.
Beautiful trees line the streets and tn
city presents a fine appearance. matted a
L is in the midst of a fine growth OF shad
and ornamental trees. Her citizens ar
and ready to encourage and assis
every helpful industry.
Home of the Brictson Tread.
WHAT WE NEED.
A Gas Plant.
A Good Hotel.
Canning Factory.
More Business Enterprises.
More Manufacturing Enterprises.
More People That Like to Go to Church
More Young People Who Want an Edu
.
The Methodist Deaconess Association Z
take charge Of the Brookings Hospital.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-11-07

Typewriter ribbons at tina Register
office for Smith, Premier, Oliver, Un-
derw0od. L. G., Smith. Royal. 2cu:ng-
ton, Smith Premier Visible. Reming.
ton Visible and Burroughs adding ma
chimes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
so, 900 PASTORS WILL
AID WAR ON PHTHlSlS

Chicago, Feb. 19.-Preaching the
gossip OF health, pastors in more than
$4,000 churches in the United States
will urge their congregations on April
IS to fight the ravages of tuberculosis.
That day has been designated by
the national association for the study
and prevention of tuberculosis is "Tu-
berculosis Day" Boards Of health,
women's clubs and the 600 associa-
tons allied with the national associa-
ton have united to bring the matter
to the attention of the churches.
How to avoid 1t, how to prevent It
and how to cure II after it has been
contracted will be preached from thou
sands Of pulpits by ministers who re-
allie that every year tuberculosis kills
more people in the United States than
were killed in both armies during the
civil war.
In the weekly bulletins issued by
the department of health the battle
cry against the white plague is sound
ed in stentorion tones, one pertinent
sentence declaring:
"One death every three minutes is
the record of tuberculosis in this
country" and adds that in a single
year tuberculosis kills more than yell
low fever has killed in this country
in the past $50 years.
Fresh air and plenty of it; sunlight,
cleanliness and a realization of the
awful devastation of the disease are
urged as the best preventives of the
scourge.
A striking declaration contained in
the bulletin is:
Drugs do not cure tuberculosis. -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
THE FIRE DRILL.

The fact that the children had been
trained In the fire drill saved the lives
Of a large number OF boys and girls
when a fire broke out in a public
school IN the city Of Rochester, n. Y.
This is a good lesson that should
not be overlooked in this or any other
city. We do not know how careful the
school authorities are In this city to
keep up the fire drills, but 1t is a mat
ter that should not be neglected.
Every school should be efficiently
organized TO make a speedy, quick and
effective cleaning Of the house on
slight notice, and the alarm ought to
be sounded often enough and practice
had with sufficient frequency that in
case a real fire should break out there
would not be a panic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
The GenaraI Plant.

Heigh-ho. 1t costs a lot to live!
That's all there Is about it.
It comes sometimes. / almost think,
To more than we get out It.
The price of breakfast foods and eggs
And every kind Of plumber
Ascends so high we tempted are
To quit and just go under.
We 60 to buy a loaf Of bread.
A half q bushel measure
OF choice potatoes and some meat,
And for them spend a treasure,
A few small onions on the top
To make little showing,
And we are rich and lucky II
We do not come out owing.
A square meal maybe twice Q week
Is now our sole ambition,
And one of them perhaps we eat,
While one Is an omission.
With several lunches in between,
Light, airy and attractive,
To keep our manners and our minds
II not our stomachs active.
Economy the watchword Is,
And we are careful cleaners.
In spite Of that our pocketbook
Goes weekly to the cleaners.
6ome new and patent food we need.
A substance cheap and lasting.
Or else, very greatly fear,
Wen have to live by fasting.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

Senator Jones. one OF the array OF
republican candidates for governor,
who spoke in Rock Island last Fri
day night, is said TO have issued a
challenge to Governor Deneen to
make a campaign trip OF the state
with him to be characterized by a
series OF Joint debates. The sugges-
ton is a good one. Why not cage
up the whole bunch OF republican
candidates and exhibit them all at
the same time from the same plat
form? This would guarantee a
R'eater crowd and result in a fair
Ind unbiased selection. But what
kind OF an animal tanner could pre-
vent their tearing each other to
aiecesg
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
NOT LODGES FAULT.

There has been some criticism of
the fact that Henry Cabot Lodge of
Massachusetts made a political speech
at the Lincoln banquet in Springfield
a week ago. This was not entirely
his fault. Mr.. Lodge is a republican
politician and If he knows how to talk
anything else than politics, he has not
usually shown it. Lodge is one of
those dyed in the wool republican poll
ticians who would talk republican poll
tics or some kind of politics on his
side of the house, in the midst Of a
cyclone, or over the dead body of
Caesar.
But there is one thing about Lodge,
you know that he is going to do II
before he starts and he does not take
any unfair advantage in that respect
You don't have to ask him If you
don't want politics.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
The Argus Daily Story
The Argonauts-By John L. Tibbits.
Copyrighted. 1911 by Associated Literary Bureau

In the spring Of 1s49 train of wag-
ons QUILTED at St. Joseph. Mo-, cross
ed the Missouri and set out across the
plains for Denver. One Of these wag-
ons contained the wife and two little
children-a boy and girl-besides the
belongings, of Edward Starkweather.
At that time the native inhabitants Of
the plains-the Indians. the buffalo and
the prairie dog-were in possession
The Indians were ready to rob and
murder those weaker than themselves,
and this necessitated immigrants go
ing in company.
Starkweather had some money which
was concealed on his wife's person.
for as yet there was no law west of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
FOR CLEANER ELECTION
PLACES.

Los Angeles has changed its system
OF locating polling places. Most Of the
cities in the United States locate poll
ing places in undesirable buildings,
blacksmith shops, barber shops, lunch
houses, sometimes In rooms in con-
nection with saloons, and also in liv-
cry stables, cigar stores, etc.
The mayor Of Los Angeles decided
1t would be an improvement II the
polls were located at churches,
libraries, school houses and places of
that class. The report is that the In
noyation has proven a success and has
been altogether better than under the
old methods.
The election commission In Rock Is
land might to some extent take notice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
TALKS ,uftl--
WOMEN READERS
BIB
Edna. K.WOo1Qr

new fur cap. 81 went to one Of these
here hockey games the other evening.
Ever been to one? Well, never had,
but I've got friend who's crazy over
'em, and he's been saying so much
about 1t that sort of thought I'd like
to see the thing. So, when he invited
my wife and me to dinner at his house
and box at the ice palace where the
games are held, we were dee-lighted to
accept.
at happened to be the coolest night
of the year, but we bundled up and de-
cided we'd enjoy ourselves any way.
That's why got this fur cap. and I'm
mighty glad got it now. Never knew
before what a comfort fur cap Is.
well, say-hockey's some game.
used to think l was some fancy skater
when l was a kid, but those fellows
sure can do stunts. What's hockey?
Well, just imagine a combination of
football, basketball and shiny and
faint idea of it.
What surprised me, though, was
that wife of mine. You can't get her
interested much in sports. She can't
see anything in baseball and she con-
siders football murderous. But If she
didn't turn into a hockey fan I'll eat
this skin headpiece! She saw the plays
quicker'n 1 did, and she knew just
when to zip or groan or screech. had
to hold her or she'd have gone straight
over the railing. And first thing /
knew she was in a duel with fellow
back of US who kept yelling at the star
player, Go it, Gus, old horsen Think
of my gray-haired wife jumping up and
down making that remark. / sat there
with my mouth open in a kind Of
trance. 1t didn't do any good to speak
to her. She simply didn't hear me
once.
I'VE stayed the game out and watch
ed the ice-skating until l shivered.
My wife says she's going to learn to
skate 1 begged her not to risk any
broken bones at her age. She merely
shifted at me.
THAT was the night we busted the
cold record. 1t was eight below when
we got home. My wife had assured me
that she banked the furnace fire be
fore leaving the house in the after
noon Well, she had 1t was out
tell you, it takes a man to attend to g
fire. Women never get the knack oil
it Ordinarily, under such circumstanc
es, my wife wraps herself in all the
blankets in the house and sits around
making unkind remarks about the eli
mate. But this time she pranced around
like colt in clover pasture, and wher
| came up from the cellar after build
ing fire at l a. m, she had piping
hot steak, French-fried potatoes and
coffee waiting for me.
I've promised to teach her to skate
Oh, WE'LL guess I'm not too old t.
!, take turn at it. It's great exercised
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
WIns LOVE- Breach SUIT

Milwaukee. Wis, Feb. Is.-Mrs.
Moniks Kasmiercz. aged 81. a widow,
who declares that she was deserted in
the shadow of the altar by wladyslaw
Orlikewsh, aged "a. has been awarded
$3.50 damages in her breach Of promise
suit Mrs. KazmiercI asserts that the
prospective date Of the ceremony wss
announced from the pulpit Her
youthful fanee declared he changed
his mind when he found his prospec-
tive bride was the mother Of four chill
dren.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
(Chicago Tribune.)


The Chinese republic now enters
Peking. Its success was assured
from the moment Yuan Shi Kai
found that he had no money and
could get none either from abroad
or from the selfish Manchu princes
and found that the troops he had
and could rely on were being attack
ed not by a band of enthusiastic,
poorly armed and unframed revolu-
tionists but by the Chinese nation.
The revolt which has set up the
new republic had undermined every
foundation of the Manchu dynasty
before a flag appeared in the open
or a gun was fired at an imperial SOL
der. At every step the ground went
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
"a THE NEW REPUBLIC -

out from under the men who feebly
eIdeavored to preserve the alien gov
eminent.
The danger which threatened
China was not that the Manchus
would defeat the purpose of the rev.
clution but that they would hold it
in check long enough to destroy re-
sponsible government and provoke
Intervention. This danger was rec
ognized by such friendly nations as
the United States. The abdication
puts enormous responsibilities on
the men who have set up the new
republic. They now must keep the
eager nations out of China by pre-
serving order and protecting prop
erty in China.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

A Washington dispatch says that
Taft has had a long conference with
Sens.or Crane of Massachusetts, and
Mr.. Mckinley of Illinois, in which, II
il announced, the general political
situation had been discussed. II is
too bad that We pay the salaries we
do to our public officers and that they
use their time TO discuss the next
election instead OF trying 70 find out
what Is best to be done for the
country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
Another negro has been lynch

Another negro has been lynched in
Mississippi. The courts Of this sec
ton ought to be able to take charge
OF the criminals without leaving
them to mob violence. There is
something wrong when lynchings
take place, either with the courts in
that part OF the country or the peo-
pie In that part of the country or
both. Mobists ought to be prosecut-
ed by the courts for their outrages
and violence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
GEM IMPORTS, TRADE BAROM-
ETERS.

ETERS.
Ability and disposition of people
TO buy diamonds and pearls are &C
counted evidences of prosperous con-
6itions in the financial world. If
such conclusion be correct, this coun-
try is in the midst of good times,
with prospect of no financial depres-
sions in the future.
Government figures for 1911 and
for January of this year show re-
markable importations of the pre-
cious articles named. Entries of
gems through the port of New York
last year amounted to nearly s40,-
100000. Only once-in 1906-have
these figures been equaled. And only
twice in IL years have the importa-
lions in January been so large as
last month.
II, as generally admitted, impor-
tstions of diamonds and pearls are
certain barometer of trade condi.
tons, those conditions are very
promising.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

Governor Foss Of Massachusetts, has
given the democratic tariff revisers
at Washington something to think Of
and act on. The tariff and its high
cost Of living is at the bottom of the
Lawrence strike, he says; and when
he further says that the tariff on food
and necessaries should be at once re-
moved, what says the house majority Z?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

will be shoes entirely covered with
feathers of brilliant hues. They will
be gummed to the leather. 1t is said
the price Of these, so decorated shoes,
will be something enormous.
OF course that is why the fashion
Is started.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

President Taft's implicit confidence
that he will be renominated and re-
elected merely shows that the politi-
clans who have been misinforming
him for three years are still at it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
WELL. WHAT NExTP

The latest innovation Of fashion rs
given out from Paris is the wearing
OF birds feathers on ladies' shoes.
Plumage on hats win be largely omit
ted and instead it win 60 to the other
extreme. The very SWEETEST thing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

When Representative Mccall OF
Massachusetts said OF President Taft,
"He is not a political sleight OF hand
performer; he cannot stand on a stage
and pretend TO do one thing while
really doing another" he may have
been talking accidentally, but the
chances are he was alluding to some
body
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

The Irish Literary club Of London
has tried TO Guido Newport society in
the line OF startling dinner effects.
Forty guests we're dressed as animals
or birds, and the walters were gotten
up as cats. The dining room was
fitted up as a stable. Would not a
pig pen have been more suggestive
OF the occasion7
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

Declining an invitation to speak at
a dinner, Mr. Roosevelt writes: Il
wish 1t were possible for my friends
to realize my position" II he is in a
position where he can't make speeches
he must be frightfully uncomfortable.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
Humor and
Philosophy
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
~ DUNCAN ~. .swsrs

TN these strenuous days 1t looks
easier to a man to die for a woman
than to give her his seat in a street
car.
A single man can't afford to be lazy.
There is where the married man with
q wife to support him scores.
Some men never stay ct home nights
If they have any other place to 80.
and others never 60 away unless tho
family has had onions for luncheon.
1t is easy enough to do a man q ia
vor, but it is so hard to forget It.
He Is q brilliant man who makes
only useful friends.
One mans idea Of afluepce is being
compelled to take exercise for his
health.
Nine men in ten win fall for home
baking. no matter who perpetrates it.
Some persons consider Strawberries
in January a mark Of distinction.
There are people so tender hearted
that they always look the other way
when they pass beggar.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

An attack of the grip is often fol-
lowed by a persistent cough, which
to many proves a great annoyance.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
been extensively used and with good
success for the relief and cure of
this cough. Many cases have been
cured after all other remedies had
failed. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

Since he goes to deliver a message
OF good will to the Latin-American
republics. Secretary Knox will have
nothing to say about how a certain
resounding person took the canal
zone"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
Her Method,

Don't you just love to go shopping
with Mrs. Richly? She buys such ex-
quisite things"
"No; Just hate It."
"WhyT
"She makes me feel that can't af-
ford thing worth looking at"
"Oh, always wait until she has fin
ished and then order the most expen-
sive thing 1 can find sent up on ap-
prevail. The next day return it."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

Even the politicians are full Of sur
prises. Here's Speaker Adkins saying
he will not run for governor and ].
McCan Davis saying he will.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

The call of heaven" that babe the
Chinese emperor retire was no other
than our esteemed old friend, the
voice OF the people.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
Halfway.

(Which do you prefer. toothache or
corns?"
81 couldn't say"
"But if you had to have one or the
other which would it beT
Appendicitis"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
Modern Plant.

had a little auto.
And IL was painted blue
! loaned II to a lady
To ride a mile or two.
She bumped t.: she twisted IL;
She punetured every tire.
I'll never loan that auto now
To lady or esquire
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

Florida is for Taft-the delegates.
not the electors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

The men of 1912 are to be slim.
sartorially speaking.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

Ethel Scores.
"You have no sense, Ethel"
"But have a lot of intuition"
Intuition? Huh. What do you 10
with itY'
"Use it to beat your sense"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

The ground hog wasn't such hog
after all.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19

Colonel Roosevelt is in favor Of
woman suffrage but against It.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
A Jolt.

a Jolt.
81 hear that Brown has gone to
work. thought he considered that the
world owed him a living"
''He does, but he says 1t begins to
look as if the world had gone into
bankruptcy and that the receiver
couldn't pay cents on the dollar"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-02-19
Mary's Method.

sMaryT
"Yes?'
"How do you keep secret so wellT
81 always embalm it in my menu
ory."