The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-12-19
Local and Personal

Attorney w. N. Skinner of Castle
wood, was in the city between trains
Friday.
Read what Patterson says on the
relation of the local paper and the ad
vertiser.
Attorney Berke of Elkton, was up
the last of the week and spent a day
on business.
Miss Grace Short went to Elkton
Friday morning for a visit of a day or
two with friends.
DR.. J. R. Jackson, Osteopath, sue
cessor to DR.. Bradbury. Office In
Bradbury building, phone g..
The home store is the hardest place
to do your Christmas shopping-and
your all-the-year'round shopping.
Don't laugh at the children for be-
lieving in Santa Claus and then put in
an evening studying a mail-order cat
alog.
Perry Green of Goodwin, was a
guest at the home of G. H. Henry the
last of the week, returning home Fri
day evening.
Mrs. NJ. d. Bagley returned to her
home at Animosa, Iowa, Friday morn
ing, after a visit at the home OF her
father, ]. G. Happier.
The Volga Tribune says that G.. w.
Smith, one of the we'll known citizens
of the west side metropolis, contem-
plates moving to Brookings with his
family.
Patterson says that advertising IS
purely a business proposition Inc
newspaper sells its space, or services
to the advertiser, just as anyone sells
any other commodity"
Patterson says eff advertisements
have no merits, no results should oe
expected. 1t is ridiculous to blame
the newspaper when neither the ad-
yertisements or conditions warranted
results"
H F. Whitmus and H. o. Lien, who
have been visiting relatives here for
some weeks, left Thursday for Sioux
Falls, where they expected to re-enllst
in the U. S. navy. Both completed
terms in the service during the past
year.
DR.. and Mrs. C. NJ. Henry and chill
dren of Yorkton, Sask., Canada, de-
uarted for their home on Sunday even
ing, after spending several days visit
ing at the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. G. H. Henry. They were on
their way home from a visit in the
east.
Enough money is lost each year by
leaving machinery out in the storms
than it would cost to build sheds to
protect it. The fence corner or a tree
is a poor machine shed. The Farm
and Home says a binder that cost $40
taken care of ought to cut 1900 acres
and last tin years cutting 400 or 500
acres each year and the ratio no DIS
good for other farm machinery. A
shed is cheaper than implements.
Professor w. H. Powers, librarian
at the State College is advocating the
adoption of a system of travelling
libraries for South Dakota. Travel
ling libraries are in operation in many
adjacent states and are proving OF
immense benefit to rural communi-
ties which would otherwise be with
out library advantages. These libra
ries are maintained by the state, and
at stated periods certain collections
of hooks are loaned, free Of charge
to communities desiring them. After
these books have been read the col
lection is exchanged for another. This
system, says Professor Powers, will
give remote localities the same chance
for mental improvement as the larger
towns. Agriculturahsts as a rule are
a book loving people and should be
given the chance to read good books
of their choice. 1t Is possible that a
bin providing a system of travelling
libraries for this state may be intro
duced during the coming legislature,