The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1912-01-18
and Personal

Sherman Stiber, a college student
cut his head quite badly by a fal
while playing basket ball Monday ey
ening.
MIR. Hopkins, formerly Of Brookings
and now located at Aberdeen, as a
member of the state board of dental
examiners.
First meeting Of the Commercial
club in the new home tomorrow ey-
ening. Every member is expected to
be out.
Harry F. Bailey and Bertha Balm
Of Bushnell, were married by DR..
Horace w Tilden yesterday afternoon
at DR.. Tilden's residence.
President J. Ray Fridley of the
Brookings Automobile club, attended
the Good Roads congress held at
Sioux Falls last week.
G. n. Kennard attended the Con-
~seryation and Good Roads congress
at Sioux Falls last week as a dele
gate from Brookings county.
II. c. Bockoven, of Clark, is among
those attending the meeting of the
State Horticultural society this week.
Mr.. Bockoyen was among the early
pioneers of Clark. where he engaged
in the drug business for Twenty-Five
years. He has always been interest
ed in trees and s~hrubbery and his
beautiful surroundings at home testi-
fly to his industry and love of horti-
culture as a pastime.
Take a wide mouthed bottle of good
clear glass and fill it with fresh water.
Then put into 1t two t~easpoonfuls Of
powdered alum. In fair weather, and
when it is likely to continue fair the
liquid will be clear, but at the APP
proach of snow, rain or cloudy wealth
er the mixture will become feathery
looking. This barometer will indicate
a change of weather SO hours in ad-
vance
Rural Carrier Collins is c%ongratu-
lating himself on his farsightedness
in selecting the month of January
for his vacation as he is missing all
of this cold weather. The rural car
riers have not missed a day during
the frigid weather of the past ten
days, although on account Of the de-
layed train service the mail is usually
a day behind time. The carriers re-
port that the roads are badly drifted
in places, and the trip over the route
is no summer picnic these days.
We are in receipt of a letter from A.
G. Kennard, a former Brookings boy
who is now with the Caldwell, Idaho,
News, in which he says: For the
past week We have been in the grip
of an unusual cold spell and heavy
snow, something very unusual for
this good old state, or I should say
this valley. Last winter our coolest
weather was 5 degrees above zero.
The climate is certainly grand. /
still hold my old position on the
News although under other manage
ment than when we came out here.
The Binfords are here and all doing
well. Jackson & Walters, attorneys,
are right in the ring. Jan Smit, you
him, Is here and not able
to say too much for Idaho and her
future"
More than five hundred rails were
broken on the Milwaukee line be-
tween Aberdeen and Milbank by a
fiat wheel of the Olympian coast
train and held up traffic on the division
all day. The fiat wheel, while little
heard Of by most readers, is by no
means unfamiliar to railroad lei 1t
usually is caused by too tight setting
of brakes, causing the wheel to drag,
sometimes for miles, over the rails.
This grinds the surface of the wheel
where 1t ome in contact with the
rail and wears 1t down so that a fiat
portion sometimes three or four in
ches in length Is made before the
difficulty is discovered. When a
wheel becomes badly flattened the
edge OF the fattened portion is very
likely to damage and even break the
rails it passes over, and this is what
occurred in this case although the re-
suits were much more serious than
usual.
The following notice has been hand
ed the Register by DR.. Derr for publ
cation and will be of interest to pro-
spective candidates in civil engineer
ing: During the coming semester
there will be given under the auspices
Of the civil engineering department of
the South Dakota State college, a spe-
cial course in topographic methods, by
H. H. Hodgeson of the United States