The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-09-04


ing of college. The prospects are good
for a strong team, as nearly all of last
years regulars will be back beside the
new material. Coach Ewing made a
fine showing with green material last
ear and we are anticipating that he
will turn out a winner this season.
South Dakota sportsmen will be in
terested to learn that the state game
commission will exhibit at the state
fair mex week the seventeen hundred
Chinese p%heasants which it recently
purchased for distribution and propa-
CATION in this state. S. Evans of Oak
Park, ILL.,, from whom the birds were
bought, will also exhibit thirty other
varieties Of land and waterfowl. Ap-
plications for the pheasants may be
made at the exhibit, for this will be
the distributing point. Game Warden
H. S. Hedrick desires the people of the
state to become interested in the pro-
pagation OF game birds and this ex-
hibit will do much to accomplish this.
DR.. and Mrs. j. w. Foster shipped
their movables and drove their auto
to their new home in Brookings last
Thursday afternoon. DR.. Foster fully
decided to locate in that busy South
Dakota city and was lucky in getting
a residence and good Office location.
Our Brookings friends will find DR..
Foster a successful physician and sur.
geon and a man whom they will be
glad to add to their list OF profess
SIGNALS. He has enjoyed a good prac-
tice during the three years or more he
has been located in Lake Preston and
sold out only to seek a larger field.
The social circles Of the State College
city will also find Mr.. and Mrs. Foster
to be royal good neighbors and friends.
Preston Times.
Judging from the increased number
of inquiries which are coming in every
mail from young people wishing special
concerning courses, the
attendance at the State College should
pass the one thousand mark this
year. Last year it was predicted that
there would be eight hundred students.
The actual count showed an attendance
of eight hundred fifty-one. College
opens this fall on the 18th of Septem-
Der. Returning students will find
many importan; changes in material
including the chemistry,
dairy and horne economics depart
The new building Is now re-
ceiving it's finishing touches. Educa-
ton in agriculture and mechanic arts
in the state is on the upward move.
Fl. l.. Hopkins returned home this
week from a months western trip.
attend the state conclave of the Knight
and from there to Denver to
the national conference OF the
order. From Denver he journeyed to
Wyo., to attend the Frontier
Day celebration and he says that this
was the best thing that he saw on the
trip. This is an annual event and Is
participated in by the best riders and
horsemen in the west. Various o n
tests, such as roping and throwing
steers, riding wild horses and other
stunts peculiar to the comboy were put
on and from thirty to forty thousand
people were in attendance. Mr.. Hop
kins fished for mountain trout for a
few days before coming east to Kan
sas City to attend a national meeting
Of the agricultural committees Of the
various state bankers associations, he
being chairman of the South Dakota
He says that the delegates
reported unusually dry weather all
the country from the At
to the Pacific and after
hearing their doeful tales Mr..
Hopkins says that he felt like throw.
ing up his hat and whooping for South
Dakota. Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska
and Iowa are more or less dried out,
says Mr.. Hopkins, and Minnesota and
the two Dakotas undoubtedly have the
best crops in the country this year.
The public library has this week re-
a small wagon load Of maya
zines and books from w. H. H. Phillips.
The magazines include Scrbiner's, the
Outlook, the Independent, and a great
many years of the Review Of Reviews.
These will increase in value as the
library becomes better equipped for
refrncedp, oawlG. giv (ixeg ,daughterfw.
work. So much emphasis,
and very justly, Is put upon the books
for children in the library that there
is danger Of the impression getting
abroad that the library is for them and
novel readers alone. Nothing could
be farther from the truth. The col
lection of serious books, of travel,
biography. and history is already con.
siderable; many of these books are