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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-04
A LOCAL FIRM
GETS CONTRACT
VOID & JOHNSON TO ERECT NEW
BUILDING AT STATE
COLLEGE.
REGENTS LET CONTRACT FRIDAY
Wiring Contract Goes to a Sioux Falls
Firm-Work Already In Progress
To Be Completed January list.

The board OF regents met at the
college Friday and let the contract
for the new agricultural building.
There were six bidders for the build
ing alone and about a dozen for the
plumbing, wiring, etc.
Bids were first opened on the build
ing alone. These were afterwards
withdrawn and inclusive bids, to com
prise everything except the electrical
wiring, were substituted. After much
consideration the contract for the
erection Of the building, including all
work except the wiring, was let to
Void & Johnson Of this city for $685.
904. The wiring was let to the Sioux
Falls Electric Construction company
for 1900. Thus the work was let at
a figure we'll within the $780, 900 ap-
%propriated by the state legislature for
that purpose.
Work is already under way and the
SohiPuo II PiCoSuI a DuSy SCSuc
this summer. That a local contractor
secured the great bulk of the work
has caused considerable satisfaction,
for it means that the sub-contracts
will be let to local firms and that
local labor will be employed, to a
great extent. The Register gave a
description Of the projected building
a few weeks ago. 1t will be the first
one to be erected on the campus
proper by Void & Johnson.
The first sod on the site of the new
building was turned at nine o'clock
Monday morning, in the presence of
about fifty people, including citizens
and college folk. State Senator e. C.
Miller and Representatives Kerr and
Roskie each welded a spade, while
Contractor c. A. Johnson acted as
overseer.
It was recalled that on July End,
1883, t~wenty.nine years ago, the first
sod was turned for the erection of
the first building at the college, the
Central building by G. A. Mathews.
largely through whose instrumental.
ity the institution was located here.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-04
S. D. S. C.. FIELD DAYS

The agronomy department Of the
State College has arranged a series of
field days for the several experiment
stations in South Dakota, in order to
secure a thorough understanding be-
tween the experiment station fields
and the people they are designed to
serve. The dates are as follows:
Brookings, Monday, July 8; Cotton
wood, Tuesday, July 8; Highmore,
Thursday, July IL; Eureka. Friday,
July IL.
An effort Is being made to secure
reduced railroad rates for all points
on their respective dates. The de-
partment hopes that all who are In
terested and need the help Of the
stations will attend one or more Of
these field days. AL experiment
station employees will be present to
demonstrate their work and to answer
questions. This will be an excellent
opportunity for agriculturalists to be-
come acquainted with a another.
Professor Hume suggests basket pic.
MICS for all who attend.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-04
TO
MOUNT vernon
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE VISIT
TOMB OF FATHER OF HIS
COUNTRY.
MANY VISITORS FROM THE WEST
The Church of the Presidential Lull
ture Fiends Have Busy Time Of It.

tFrom Our Washington Correspondent.)
During the past year 10000 people
made their pilgrimage to the tomb of
George Washington. Mount Vernon,
a short distance below Washington on
the Potomac, is one of the most beau
tiful spots on the American continent.
Every few weeks some zap in Con-
gress, or scribbler for a newspaper,
seeks notoriety by attacking the sys-
TEN of charging an admission OF TWEEN
ty-fve cents to the grounds. This has,
however, invariably been silenced
after examining the record, and find
ing that Mount Vernon was rapidly
on the way to wreck and ruin until a
patriotic band OF women volunteered
to take charge of the great Washing
ton estate. These women perfected a
national organization and from the
small per capita admission fee, they
have been able to keep Mount Vernon
as sleek and neat as a farmer wo,
mans kitchen, and the historic rooms,
buildings, grounds and relics have
been conscientiously reserved. 1t is
not the idle sight-seer or the fluffy
Drained tourist who has made up the
majority of these 10000 pilgrims this
year, but as one observes the character
of the men and women who go through
Washington, and spend an hour or
more at Americas shrine. 1t Is plain
that the vast bulk of these visitors are
composed of patriotic men and women,
whose souls are full OF the love for
their country, and a sacred reverence
for the memory Of the great man who
did more than any one else In the
worlds history, to perpetuate free
dom and liberty. And the word of dis
appointment is yet to be heard from the
lips OF those who have gone to Mount
Vernon and breathed within it's sac
red ground and rooms an a~fectionate
homage to George and Martha Wash.
ington, who with their loved ones
spent their ~happiest years In this spot
overlooking the expanse OF the river
Potomac-isolated from the rest Of the
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-04

Stuart bears he distinction OF apper-
ing there for eleven consecutive
years. He simply holds that great
assembly as he does a hundred
others each summer, spellbound.
Elsie Brown
A program given by Miss Brown is
a collection of literary gems together
with portraits of human nature true
to life.
Arthur Rachel.
Subjects: The Music Master"
THE Servant in the House." THE
Fortune Hunter"
Prof. M~ontraville NJ. Wood
Several phases of modern science
are discussed and demonstrated by
this eminent authority.
Prof. H. A. Adrian
There is no possibility of getting
Burbank on your program, but you
can secure the man who in two
seasons has made the Burbank lee
lures among the most popular offered
to c%hautauquas.
Benjamin Chaplin
The im~personation of Lincoln is not
a caricature, but a living study. The
beautiful traits of Lincoln's character
are admirably p%ortrayer. His gentle
ness and tenderness have been mis-
understood by some critics as weak
nesses, just as they were misunder-
stood during Lincoln's lifetime. Lin
coin mastered men with that same
quiet s~ternness which Mr.. Chaplin SO
faithfully exemplifies.
Those who have any doubt about
the appearance of Mr.. Bryan should
read the following from a letter sent
by Manager Holiday of the Midland
chautauqua circuit, to the local man
ager R. F. Kerr: Il have had Mr..
Bryan on some of my programs each
year for the past six years and he
mas hC'Si SdhCoiiOu q uoCO ohu hoS
never been late. He is the greatest
all-around platform speaker on the
American platform, draws the largest
crowds and receives the largest fees
for his work. / regard it as a chance
in a lifetime to hear Col. Bryan. He
is the most colossal figure, not only
on the public platform but in politics
today and yields the widest influence.
| am a lifelong republican 20 l have
a right to say this"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-04

The board of education held its
regular monthly meeting Friday even
ing, at which the list of teachers was
completed for the coming year, that
is, if no more resign. At its next
meeting the board will reorganize for
the coming year and elect new Of
ficers.
High School
J.. w. Browning, superintendent,
R. l.. Patty, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
Brookings, S. D.
Mabelle Boyson, English, Min,
neapolis, MINI.
Myra R. Downs, mathematics,
Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Lydian U. Bush, latin, Madison,
Wisconsin.
Wilhelmina Haase, German and
English, Eldora, Iowa.
Beulah A. Plummer, science,
Lowell, Ind.
Helen Biersdorf, history, Zembrota,
MINI.
Cora E. Ostroot, music and penman-
ship, Lake Preston, S. D.
George H. Bishop, manual training
and mechanical drawing, Ann Arbor,
Mich.
Grade Teachers
Bessie Chappell, Brookings.
Winifred Gleason, Albert Lee, MINI.
Grace O'Brien.
Mable Irish, Brookings.
Agnes Dixon, Madison, S. D.
Marie Vahle, Tracy, MINI.
Agnes Johnson, Heron Lake, MINI.
Ruby B. Keller, Manchester, s. D.
Mable Binnewise, Brookings.
Mary Boyd, Brookings.
Eda Swanson, Madison, s. D.
Winifred Enos, Brookings.
Ella Black, Brookings.
Eleanor Bennett, Chicago.
Emma Sorenson, principal Of grade
building, Kasson, Mimi.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-04
NORTHWEST Is GAINING

Mr.. Hill declares that the North
western states bordering on the Paci.
ic, which the Hill lines serve. are
losing in their struggle and fight for
settlers against Montana, North and
South Dakota and Minnesota.
Those states have carloads and
trainloads into their states every day
week, month. Practically not one
carload of settlers a week comes to
Washington or Oregon, while the pop.
ulation in the country in states like
Minnesota and thc Dakotas 10 increas.
ing by leaps and bounds.
And this in spite Of the fact that we
have advertised Washington as we
have no other state served BY oul
lines.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-04
TWO PROGRAMS
ON SATURDAY
POMONA GRANGE PICNIC AND
MEETING ATTRACTS A
LARGE CROWD.
SCHOLARS GET THEIR DIPLOMAS
Changers, Teachers, School Children
and Visitors Make Merry at State
College All Day Saturday.

Saturday was a day full of interest
at the State College, the big Pomona
Grange picnic and meeting and the
graduation exercises of the eighth
grade scholars of the Brookings coun-
ty district schools attracted a large
number Of people. Many members Of
oranges on the line between Brook
ings and Watertown attended.
In the morning there was an adj
dress by DR.. A. N. Hume on THE
Field and Crop Experiments" follow
ed by an inspection of the field plots
of the experiment station. At moor
there was a picnic lunch served by
the B%rookings County Pomona
Grange to all corners in the grove
east OF the gymnasium, after which
parties Of the visitors were conducted
to all the departments of the college.
Then at half past three there was
held the Pomona grange public pro-
gram in the chapel.
At half past two occurred the gradu-
ating exercises Of the county pupils.
The address was delivered by Mrs.
David C. Beatty of Watertown, and
the diplomas were awarded by Miss
Gertrude Stedman, county superin1
tendent.
The fourth annual summer school
and teachers institute, which opened
June 10Th, closed yesterday.
The following is a list of the pupils
who passed the eighth grade examina-
lions and who received diplomas Satur.
day afternoon:
Arlington-Helen Snyder.
Aurora-Marie Gehant, Roy Kruger,
Frank Neal, Nina Ammons, Frances
Baker, Matthew Hemmer, Maggie
Thornton.
Bruce-Zaida Coulter, Warran Boil,
Clara Hoffman, Myrtle Sheets, Willie
Hurd, Nora Thompson.
Brookings-Mina Telkamp, Edith
Watson, Eva Thompson, Mabel Peter.
son.
Estelline-Mabel Anderson.
Elkton-Sanchen Feigl, Myrtle Ham,
ilton, Clara Heck, Regina Hoch, Chas.
Kearney, Eugene Koehn, Eta Kret-
singer. Zazel Norrissy, Luella Murphy,
Rose O'Brien. Helen O'Connor, Mar
garet O'COnnOr. Ella RYAN. Howard
Stillman, Ella Wilson.
Hendricks, Minn.-Bennie Fasbender
Volga-Charles Dalthrop, Jenifer
Evenson, Alma Jepson, Sadie Nyman,
Emma Sneve, Winifred Temte, Ger
trude Voldahl, Amelia Schiesser, Alma
Thompson, Alfred Stumley, Alvin
S%tockstad, Eva Lee, Bertha Simonson.
Alfred Reeves, Olga Alseth, Josie Gro
yum, Nels Voldahl, Esther Norrald.
White-Bertha Biery, Maud Gorton,
Lora lesson, Earl MINER, Hilda Schulz,
VILE Schulz, Helen Schouweiler, Ma.
bel Outset.
Nels and Gertrude Voldahl received
first and second places, their averages
being 1914 and 92.3 respectively. This
entities one OF them to a half scholar
ship in the academic department of
one Of the following colleges: Huron,
Yankton, Mitchell, Redfeld, Sioux
Falls.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-04

Now that fle nominatio is are made
by at least .wo" of the g eat parties,
there is a temporary luz in active
political organization wori,. No one
knows this better than the newspaper
people, whose waste-bashats have
been consi erably overwo'ked for
many months. In the republican
camp, the Roosevelt and Taft mana
gers showed their lack Of comprehen-
sion of the needs of the press Of the
country by each pickin' out men who
though skilled as Washington news
paper reporters, knew about as much
labor the interior of the average
newspaper office outside Of Chicago
or New York, as Satan does about
fire insurance.
Perhaps the most universal dis
ease" in existence today is that Of
"movin' picturitis," and to supply the
demand for new films, national cele-
brities whose principal headquarters
are in Washington, are being contin-
ually worked up into new films. When
the president attends a ball game, or
the speaker Of the house walks
abroad-when there is a parade on
Pennsylvania avenue, or any other
public ceremony in congress, or the
army or navy, it is certain that the
moving picture man will be on hand
with his apparatus. The picture
house is no longer the exclusive
haunt Of the common herd, because
its merit has won; and in the national
capital, Philadelphia, New York, or
any Of the great cities, the best o
ing picture houses are surrounded by
great numbers Of waiting automobiles
whose owners are unable to resist
the fascination for the picture show,
though a Joy ride go to waste
in consequence.
There is always in Washington
what is known as "the Presidents
church. In the days Of Colonel
Roosevelt, the Dutch Reform church
was the popular spot in Washington
every Sunday morning, and so 1t now
happens that All Souls Unitarian
church, where President Taft attends
service, is the place where the tour
lists Of Washington, via the route OF
the rubber-neck wagon, or doing the
town afoot, and themselves at eleven
a. IN. each Sunday. At almost exact
ly that hour the Presidents automO-
bile stops at the curb, and secret SER
vice men follow their chief to his
pew near the church altar. The pres
ident always sits alone, and when he
is away his pew is vacant. no matter
how crowded the edifce may be, be-
cause-independeat of All Souls be-
ing the presidents church, 1t became.
under the passionate Of Doctor Edward
Everett Hale and Doctor Ulysses G..
B. Pierce. the most popular Of all
Washington's places Of worship. The
statement that the president always
sits alone, needs qualifying-once
during the past year the presidents
brother sat alongside Of him. No
direct member Of his family has &C
companied him. at least not for more
than q year.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-04
cHAUTAUQUA
OPENS SATURDAY
BIG FEAST FOR THE PEOPLE OF
BROOkINGS AND VICINITY
FOR EIGHT DAYS.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN TO SPEAK
Americas Greatest Commoner viii
Appear Tuesday Evening.-Other
Good Ones Are Coming.

The Brookings Chautauqua opens
next Saturday afternoon and for eight
days, of two programs each day, the
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-07-04

world, and happy in their own good
works. Surely in this delightful spot
American people have found their
modern Garden of Eden.
The democratic national convention
has brought a great many people from
the west, who or their way to or from
the convention have visited Washing
ton for the first time. Baltimore and
the national capital are neighboring
cities and only forty miles apart.
Many westerners are surprised when
they come to realize that Washington
lies to the south of Baltimore, for
while in the minds of the average per
son, Baltimore is distinctively a south
ern city, it is not as generally realized
tional capital is even farther south
and lies fully $50 miles below
the Mason and Dixon line. One
meets in Washington people from
everywhere, and in that respect it is a
holllIy WY hC 4 oiu ooub@
meet here on common ground, and
even ON the famous Pennsylvania
avenue, modern progressiveness OF
architectural symmetry and beauty
beckons to the lazy ramshackle shift
l~essness of old-time southern shacks,
which houses a large portion of small
er business enterprises of the city,
Great areas of Washington are given
over to the colored population, who
must be considered here as the sons
OF Martha" as they bear most of the
load of heavy labor. To the north OF
the District of Columbia lies Maryland
and to the south is "old Virginia.
where the colored mar is under the
taboo of the Jim Crow" laws. The
little spot of the District of Columbia
belongs TO all alike, and here the
New-York tribune., 1912-06-10
0GE TRAFFIC TIED UP
Passengers for Williamsburg
Delayed by Train Leaving Rails.

Elevated traffic on the WILLIAMSBURG
Bridge was held up for more than an
hour late Yesterday afternoon, while a
wrecking crew Strengthened out Brook
lyn bound train. which had jumped the
tracks. i'm the underground station at Cilh-
ton street, al the Manhattan end Of the
bridge.
The train, consisting Of six cars an"
carrying about six hundred passengers. rro-
ceeded without any mishap until II MT Il
switch leading TO the bridge tracks. me
motor car Of the train took the first switch
and then. evidently hitting = second switc"
that was not entirely closed. rolled OF the
tracks The car left the tracks with hardly
a bump. carrying the other cars with H.
ploughed for a short distance through IN"
heavy trackhod and came 10 ioltire stop
Passengers were assisted from tire tram
and escorted bacl: 10 the station by way o'
the footpaih between the tracks. At tn"
station transfers were issued 10 all paSSen-
gers who wished to continue their trip.
Hundreds of persons bound for Brooklyn
crowded tie station platform. but were kept
in order by the reserves from the Clinton
street station.
-Four trains from Brooklyn were stalled
on the bridge. while the crew Of the wreck
ing train lacked up the cars and put them
back on the tracks. BY this time the "i"-
waited traffic had been held up for an hour
and ten minutes.
New-York tribune., 1912-06-10
HATS RIDE ON THE WIND
Owners Observation-Disclosures
Enriched by Tips"

The high wind Of Yesterday afternoon
raised the dickens with the owners of
straw hat aud at the same time p"o'eh
boon 20 th" ymail boy. who Is ever anxious
10 do something that will add a ni"kel or
dime To- his cXchequcr i'm Tho shape OF tIp.
Along Park Row the wind was exceed
ingly stiff. and there was hardly minute
in the neighbOrhOod OF the Tribune BUILD
ing when straw hat could not I've seen
Hitting through the air. with half a dozen
urchins %: its trail. Of course. there were
accidents, for every once in a while hat
cluded its pursuers sufficiently to get under
the wheels Of a passing car much TO the
chagrin of its owner.
Passengers on the open cars had their
troubles. too. because the wind had the IN
happy habit i'm a good many cases OF lift-
ing a hat from the head OF an unsuspecting
owner and carrying il couple of blocks
awav before IL was captured. On one car
Of to" Broadway line four straw hats took
Il JOY ride i'm the wind between iith street
and chambers street, and the conductor
b-came peeviSh and warned the riders to
hold ON To their hats. AZ he would not hold
the ear for them II their hats blew of
George Jaffe plunged headlong from car
At Jamaica and Railroad avenues while
trying to catch his hat, which had been
blown from his head. iS I'm Bradford
street Hospital Brooklyn, with scalp
wound and bruises.
New-York tribune., 1912-06-10
BURNED TO DEATH IN CRIB
Three Other Children Saved by
Woman Neighbor.

Nine months old 2ebecca Schwartz
daughter of Morris and Fanny Schwartz
VAS burned to death in her crib yeste"-
day. as she lay i'm the bedroom of the
apartment on the ground floor rear ot
No. ii3 St AIMS avenue. The Bronx.
Philip, seven: Sadie. four, and Rose. two
years old. also children of the couple,
were rescued from the flames by young
woman neighbor.
Morris Schwartz had gone 10 his fruit
and vegetable store. on Willis avenue =.
and Mrs. Schwartz was in front of the
house talking with d ncighbor when the
fire started. Miss Rose Friedman, 4
Young woman who lives on the third
floor of the house. was sitting near a
window overlooking AN air shaft, when
window and saw a heavy column of
smoke pouring from the window of the
bedroom in the Schwartz apartment.
Miss Friedman ran down the stairs
and into the Schwartz apartment. Whc1
she reached the bedroom she saw the
flames licking mp the bed ana Crlb be-
side IT, Sh" did not see the infant i
the crib. BIT the three other children
were huddlcd in fright in one corner.
Mrs. Schwartz saw her three children
when Miss Friedman took them from
the apartment. and believe her infant
daughter had also been saved. When
she found that the infant had been
burned to death she b"can" hEsterical
and had To- be attended 10y Dr. Eddy. II
the Lincoln Hospital
The damage done by TIA" flames
.,uIn,nt,d to about $40
New-York tribune., 1912-06-10
NURSES QUIT IN A BODY
Eight Leave Hospital Where Ten
Babies Were Poisoned.

Miss Louis" r. Howard. In" nurse in
chars" of the hospital work Of the Brook
lyn Nursery and Infants Hospital. and her
stan Of seven nursery maids quit suddenly
Thursday. il was learned yesterday. Miss
Howard's resignation was submitted to the
board of managers and accepted NothiaG
Was known Of the intention Of tho seven
maids 10 quit with her There were twenty
sick babies in tn" wards at the time. and
Miss VI. Anderson. the superintendent Of
the institution. had hcr hands fun meeting
the emergency.
TIL" sudden resignation of the head nurse
WAS due to the criticism to which she was
subjected at tho recent trial Of Wiuifrcd
Aukor- and subsequently, Mis- Ark'rs WAS
acquitted of ii chargo of causing IN" death
Of an infant at the hospital iu February.
At the time thirteen babies were poisoned
with "Nall' a'Id ami ten died.
At Tho trial ia" pros -'utlou fdlrd e"
prove its case. ana toe testimony tended to
show that IN" hospital Wa conducted lu
a manner that exposed the inmates to the
NdgaIl"S of the lIrcSpouslbl- women who
We're employed in its Kitchen, 80 that tho!
could be near their babi"~.
When Miss HoWard's resignation Vds ac-
&C. pied the services Of Miss D'rOhr'.
graduate Of the Nurses Training School OF
the Kings County Hospital. were secured.
and She was on hand when Mis- Howard
formally gave zap her place. Tn" m
loft the authorities 10 difficulties for f"w
hOuS. Finally three assistant nurses M"r"
secured tor day work ANA one for night
work. Miss Anderson said yesterday that
the arrangement was only temporary ana
that the staff would be increased ~ quickly
"a : D1SSil ic
New-York tribune., 1912-06-10
RICH WOMEN AS VAMPIRES
Brooklyn Pastor Tells Holyoke
Girls Not to Envy Them.

South Hadley, Mass, June 9.-"f YOU
are ever tempted to envy the women
who are free from financial care and
above life devoted to work. remember
such women are vampires" said the
Rev. Dr. Edward +. Sanderson. pastor
of the Church Of the Pilgrims. Brooklyn,
in his haCCalaurcate sermon before the
graduating class of Mount Holyoke Col
lege to-day. He took for his text For
their sake ! COnseCrate myself"
Il believe he said. that most col
lcge women have Il deep purpose to
make their lives count. ! know also the
temptations which come at times To the
best 10 he selfish.
THE woman living on dividends must
realize that for every cents value taken
out of dollar one cent must be put into
the dollar 10y the labor of men. and
oftentimeS of tired women and chill
dren.'
1t was in this way that DR.. Sandcrson
emphasized the need of unSelfshncsS
and of the girls making their lives
count.