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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-18
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION FOR
DISTRIBUTION OF ESTATE EXEMPT
State Iof South Dakota,

State Iof South Dakota.
County of Brookings, IS.
In County Court.
In ithe matter of the estate of Even
Johnson, deceased.
STATE of South Dakota sends Greetings to
Carrie Johnson, John f. Johnson, Gilbert e,
Johnson. Josie Swidlund, Ada Johnson,
Helmh johnson and Carl r. johnson heirs
at Law and next OF kin of Even Johnson, de-
ceased, and to whom ii may con~ern.
Notice is hereby given, that Carrie John
son has filed with the Judge OF this Court a
verified petition in writing setting forth that
the laid deceased left estate consisting of
real property, which she alleged to be
wholly exempt from execution, attachment
or dher mesne process, and praying that
said ESTATE be distributed among the heirs at
law and next of kin of said deceased, with
out the regular administration thereof as
provided by the probate code and that Sat-
urday the 27th day of December, 1918, at 10
O'Clock A. M, being a day OF a regular term
of this Court, to-wit the November term,
1914 at the Court room of said Court in the
City OF Bookings. Brookings County, South
DAKOTA have been appointed as the time
and place for hearing said petition, when
and where any person interested may appear
and show cause why said petition should
not be granted.
pated December 9Th. 1913.
GEO. p. HALL.
Attest; Judge of the County Court
John A. Lunden.
Clerk.
Cuckow & Berke.
Attorneys for Petitioner.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-18
ADVOCATES A SYSTEM OF MA.
TiONAL HIGHWAYS

The idea of national highways, built
and maintained entirely by the govern
ment, has no stauncher advocate than
Judge J. NJ. Lowe of Kansas, City, Mo.
Judge Lowe, who is vice-president of
the National Highways Association,
and president of the National Old
Trails Road Highways Association,
does not believe that good results can
be effected by what is known as fed
eral aid or national aid; least OF
all, by that form of aid which proposes
that the government appropriations
should be spent not on main roads but
on roads radiating from railroad sta
tons.
In an open letter to Governor Major
of Missouri, Judge Lowe says:
eff fifty million dollars were APP
propriated annually it would average
about one million to each state If dis
tributed equally.
eff Missouri should get one million
dollars and should distribute it equally
to every county throughout the state,
she could build about four-ffths of a
mile of hard surfaced road in each
county.
But there are those in congress U
don't think they are to be found else
where). who seem to have a vague
notion that the thing to do is to make
the railroad depot the hub and radiate
from that point to reach the farmers
produce; but let's see how that would
work.
I'm a great many counties there are
several lines of railroad. Who will
decide which line to prefer? If all
lines are to be treated equally what
would the result be?
Take Missouri for example. She
has an average of, say, ten depots in
each county, If each county can build
only four-ffths of a mile out Of each
fifty million dollar appropriation then
each depot would get two twenty-ifths
of a mile annually, if appropriations
we're kept up.
AT that rate it would take twelve
and one-half years to get n mile Of
road out from each depot.
The average haul in Missouri is
nine miIas co n would take 112 wears
to build one road out from each depot
to meet the requirements Of an aver
age haul, and to "radiate" in only -four
directions would take 44S years ii ar
appropriation of fifty million dollars
were made annually.
What is the reasonable thing to do
And how are we to get roads?
IF fifty million dollars is appropriat
ed annually for only six years and ap
piled to a system of national high
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-18
GIVING

What Is a "spug?" Is he or she nee.
essarily a "tightwad," grudging the
giving Of any token OF affection at
Christmas time? Or is he merely one
who believes that Christmas giving is
to be measured in terms of the spirit
rather than the cost? These questions
call for no answer to those who have
followed the development of the 'spug"
movement, but there are many who do
not understand 1t, who think that these
"spugs" are taking advantage of the
effort to check the giving of useless
presents to protect their pockets.
The true "spug' is animated by a
high ideal of Christmas and It's signifi-
canoe and not by any sorbid pecuniary
motive. 1t Is possible to maintain the
custom of Christmas giving without
making it ridiculous by wasting i'm
mense sums of money on mere trinkets
that are of no earthly value or use,
toys that are destroyed in a few hours,
trash of all sorts that g~litters for a
short time and then finds its way to
the waste pile.
The osiginal name of this organiza-
ton was the Society for the Proven
ton of Useful Giving" The shops are
been changed without disturbing the
initials, to the Society for the Promo
ton of Uuseful Giving" The shops are
full of useful things, articles of wear
and daily need, that make far better
Christmas presents than most of the
rubbish that at one time constituted
the bulk of holiday presents. A few
years ago the habit of giving articles
of luxury and show wen to such ar
extreme that it was by many people
regarded as an affront to receive a
really useful thing at Christmas time.
The giving of presents of the imprac-
spirit OF greed and expectancy, far
removed from the real Christmas idea.
To be a "spug" is actually to be an adj
vocate of the best there is in the Gus
tom of Christmas giving, to encourage
the exchange of presents at that time
that does not impose a burden or a re-
sponsibility. Christmas giving should
be spontaneous, inspired by love. The
influence of the Society for the Promo
ton of Useful Giving is calculated to
check the commercialism that threat
ems to destroy the real aspects of the
holiday season.-Washington Star.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-18
HANSEN ANSWERS PATTERSON

Declaring that misrepresentation
concerning the variety and quality OF
South Dakota alfalfa seed are unfair
to both the general public and to hon
est seedsmen, Prof. n. E. Hansen
comes out with a statement in which
he severely scores II. F. Patterson,
county agent for better farming in
Brown county.
1t seems that the enterprising bust
ness men of Aberdeen backed the So
called South Dakota Better Farming
Association in the purchase of $1,000
worth of alfalfa seed. II happens that
a letter has been sent by the county
agent. Mr.. Patterson, to the register
of deeds in each county of the state
announcing two carloads of South Da-
kota grown seed for sale by the Better
Farming Association at Aberdeen.
Concerning this offer, Prot, Hansen
says:
Superintendent H. F. Patterson
makes the claim that both Of these
carloads were raised in western South
Dakota and that carload number one
has been raised on dry land between
the Cheyenne and Bad Rivers for the
past twenty years, original seed came
from Russia. Carload number two has
been grown on dry land between Elk
Creek and the Belle Fourche River for
the past twenty years; has spreading
root system: original seed from Tur-
kestan.
9" challenge both of these claims.
No scotsman in America has ever
claimed to have Russian alfalfa e
from a field twenty years old or from
Turkestan alfalfa fields twenty years
old. No scotsman in the United
States has made these claims because
he would not claim what is not in ex-
~istence. The records show that the
first Turkestan alfalfa seed was
brought over to America in the spring
of 1898 by myself and that the ship
ment was about nine tons. From
European Russia | first brought over
alfalfa seed in 1906, which was seven
years ago.
I'm the Dakota Farmer of Deem
Der LIST Mr.. Patterson says that some
alfalfa seed was imported from Siberia
twenty years ago. | also challenge
this statement and it will take more
than the unsupported word of Mr.. Pat
terson to prove it."
Prof. Hansen says he would not cast
any reflection on the common alfalfa
seed which was raised in large quantii-
ties during the past season in western
South Dakota. There will be a good
market for all of it, he says, for it is
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-18

ference between saloon Des Moines
and dry" Des Moines on a Sunday
morning is about forty-lve DRINKS.
Public sentiment already accepts the
fact that the saloons are slipping and
that 1t will be but a short while until
the liquor traffic will be legislated put
OF existence in this country. The sa-
loon Is looked Lpon in all intelligent
and law-abiding American communities
as a menace, to present as well as to
future generations. 1t is realized that
those who waste their substance in
the saloon are almost invariably those
who can least afford to do 70. The
money goes over the bar for liquor,
when it should be going over the coun-
ter to pay for the necessities of life
and add comforts to a home.
The saloon is a barnacle on society
and is already tottering on its last
legs. Society is fast approaching a
point where ii will not tolerate it. This
Is evidenced by the gentle acquies-
cence in which Des Moines received
the closing Of it's saloons. There is but
one step between this point and that of
nontoleration. Des Moines will soon
take that step as well as other Iowa
cities. The county of Plymouth is now
dry" This has been one of the strong
holds of the saloon in the state. Today
the county is dry" with the exception
of LeMars, the county seat. With but
few exceptions the counties of the
state are dry" II the river counties
are not counted.
There is no question that the saloon
business is becoming a stencil in the
nostrils of all itelligent and law abid-
ing citizens. The stencil will become
so putrid within a few years that the
saloons will be legislated out of the
country.
A bill to make interstate traffic of
liquor a crime will pass congress with
in a few sessions, IL not during the
present session. With this law In
force the big breweries and distilleries
will receive their death blow. The
booze business is certainly on the to-
boggan. Public sentiments assisting
it t roll down grade.-Washington.
Iowa, Press.
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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-18

ways Ii will build thirty thousand
miles at an average cost of $4,000 per
mile. / believe that this Is a reason.
able estimate for a first-class road.
This system could be made to fur
nish an average of two trunk lines
across each state and across the con.
tinent, and all connected with ma
tional capital"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-18

Loose Leaf System-For mercantile
and all other uses. Stock forms made
to order. There's a big advantage in
buying loose leaf goods at home.
Register Publishing Co.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-18

FOR SALE-Typewriter paper, 85
cents for 500 sheets. Better stock for
$1.00 and 1925. Register Publishing
Company.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-12-18

A SILK ribbon lasts longer and gives
better results than any other. Try
one on your typewriter. Get 1t at the
Register office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19
DIGNITY DIES

Continued from page g
they meet for mental relaxation and enjoy
ment, the place where they travel the paths
of verbal dalliance and good hearted COM
partnership.
In addition to the Washington member
ship, the organization has as its nonresident
membership a big majority of all the authors,
well known writers, and newspaper publish
ers of the country. And each one of them
knows that he will always find hearty well
come there when he arrives in Washington,
either at noon or at midnight. 1t is the club
for which Victor Herbert, after having aban-
doned playing his cello solos in public for
many years, broke his rule. In short, it is
an organization that spends its leisure time
in entertaining and being entertained
1t goes on the rule that, if you haven't a
laugh in your system, or can't play pool or
pitch, or don't know a good story when
you hear it, you had better not come round
1t is playground where the humblest cub
reporter jostles the biggest diplomat out of
the way.
Finally, it is ground consecrated to free
dom of thought and speech, and the man
who enters it with the idea of hanging HIM
self on the atmosphere as picture of dignity
and reserved greatness is just about as popu-
lar as we'll developed pestilence
What is more to the point, since Bohe-
mians both literary and legislative never
have any money, you have to pay cash for
everything, and you get credit for nothing
which runs the club on solid financial basis
and keeps the members heads out of the
clouds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19

SENATOR McCUMBER was not Bull
~ Mooser, and he could not appreciate the
vaudeville performances in conventions
where women took leading part. He was
particularly severe in his criticism of the
demonstration led by a woman in behalf of
Colonel Roosevelt at the Republican con-
vention in Chicago.
"What," he asked in severe tones in the
Senate, would George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, or Alexander Hamilton have
thought of convention where a queen of
the footlights was brought in for the purpose
of producing a stampede at supposed
psychological moment?"
IL am not entirely familiar interjected
Senator Borah of Idaho, with all the history
of Jefferson and Hamilton as to such things;
but my opinion is, from what | have read,
that they would have enjoyed it."
DAY after day during the Investigations
of campaign contributions there were
disputes about what Cornelius N. Bliss said
or did, from whom he collected and for what
purpose.
do you remember" asked DR.. Harvey
w. Wiley, "that oft-repeated assertion in
The Old Homestead where the old fellow
told many tall stories and clenched them by
saying, And l could prove it too, if old Bill
Jones was alive? l am thinking how much
could be proved in this campaign fund in
vestigation if Old Cornelius Bliss was alive. ,"
SENATOR w. MURRAY CRANE is
~ thanked in personal letters, and in the
minds of many others who do not take the
trouble to write, for public literature and
government documents. Thousands of
these publications are sent out under the
frank of the Massachusetts, Senator, which
means that they go free of postage with the
Senator's name stamped in one corner.
Senator Crane is chairman of the Committee
on Rules and has supervision of the press
gallery. That also calls for his name on
thousands of envelops in which newspaper
men send out documents of all kinds. Con-
sequently "W. Murray Crane in fac
sirnile of the Senator's real signature, goes
to every part of the country, bearing with
it congressional directories, speeches, pub
lie documents, and all kinds of literature
turned out at the government printing Office.
THERE is collected and disbursed by the
United States every year a billion dol
lars. The Treasurer of the United States,
who is bonded for eight hundred thousand
dollars, is responsible for this thousand
million dollars that come and go; but he can
not control dollar of it. He could not go
into the vaults and take out any of the
money. 1t would be more difficult for him
to steal the government money than it
would for any of the thousands of visitors
who look at the stores of bonds, bills, and
gold year after year.
WHERE DIGNITY DIES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19

offer imaginable. We prefer to have you the
land at the start. This is no sight unseen"
proposition. But if you can't get down here at
time within a year, you may inspect the plat
picked out for you. If it's not satisfactory
you get your money back with so interest.
Read that again. Note that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19
You Must Be
Satisfied

There are no loopholes or technicalities about
this. We don't make your purchase conditional
upon the land being good say. You
tcally an option-only you forfeit nothing
if you decide not to take the land. Instead you
get go on every cent you've paid US.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19
$4,000 a Year and
Upward

Big incomes that you can investigate
for yourself are being made here at
Wauchula today. Come down and see this
land that gives you and your family a
good living from vegetables until your
grape fruit and orange trees come into
bearing Then you can sit back and take
life easy and earn double and treble
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19

Florida Land guaranteed by home
company of bankers. The proved Wau-
chula Combination Soil, where vegeta-
bles yield comfortable living until grape
fruit and oranges bring fortune. This
land in the very heart of the remarkable
Peace River Valley is the one large sec
ton where vegetables can be grown on a
big scale between the rows of young
orange and grape fruit trees. And it's
being done. Men whose records stand
the closest scrutiny give this land their
unqualified endorsement. Read below
about the guarantee and the years time
for inspection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19
Why Do We Make This
Liberal Offer

Because no man who has come down
here has gone away without buying. When
he talked to the owners of the grape fruit and
orange groves. saw that they drove their own
motor cars and were sending their children to
college. he knew that they were making money.
When he learned that in three towns. Wauchula.
Zolfo and Bowling Green. within radius of five
miles, there were four banks with deposits aggre-
eating nearly $500 900, he knew this was pros
porous country. When he saw Wauchula with
its neat wellkept stores its churches fine schools
lodges and-no negroes at WauChula-he knew
this was a good place to bring his family
Good water. healthful climate Live cash mar
ket for everything you raise. First class trans -
portation. Finest hunting and fishing right =
hand. Your satisfaction guaranteed %
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19

what you get now at work that is slowly
but surrey wearing you out. We want you
to come down and talk to the men who
have groves here NOW. You'll find
S., 900, 81, 900, Sc, 900 and even SIC, 900
is not unusual. If you have little
money and are willing to work you can
equal these incomes These rich groves are
here-you can see how they producing.
We show you what this land is doing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-19
Combination Soil-Vege-
tables, Then Grape Fruit

You don't need much money to get foothold
here at Wauchula. From the first you set out
vegetables between the rows of young Grape
pays for the land. You and your family live
comfortably from the start. and later your in
come swells-your grape fruit and oranges begin
better than the one preceding You can reason
ably expect annual profit of $1,000 and up
ward.
Grove owners are buying more land. setting
out more trees. Experienced orange growers
and truck raisers say this is the best all-round
land in Florida. Keep in mind always that it's
Combination Soil that pays for itself and pays
your way from the start.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-11-08
WARNING TO HOG RAlsERs.

Trucker and Farmer:
What's the matter with hog cholera
this year? 1t must be that some one
has put the much dreaded disease
over the back fence, as I never hear
of any serious outbreak anywhere. At
this time last year the entire country
was fighting the socalled swine plague
tooth and nail, and this summer we
hardly, if ever. hear of any outbreak.
I hope this lack of news means that
the entire hog crop is In a healthier
condition and that breeders and pork
producers will not have to again sus-
tain the immense losses that they did
last year. But 1t will pay us to be
careful and watch our herds carefully,
and administer preventives to them
just the same and try, II possible, to
keep down every disease. Careless
ness and overconfidence in the condi-
ton of our herds often leads us to not
properly caring for the animals, and
before we are fully aware of our neg
lect disease is rampant among them,
and the deal is all UP. Care and at.
tention are the watchwords of success
in the hog, cattle and poultry indus
tries, and it must never be forgotten,
Keep as good care of your stock when
well and healthy as you would when
they are sick. Remember the old say
ing that one ounce of prevention is
worth thousand pounds Of cure, SO
IL you can, by close care and atten
ton, prevent your stock from becom
ing diseased, use every effort to do SC
and you will not only have less trouble
on your hands, but more profit to youl
credit.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-11-08
HE DROPS INTO POETRY.

A Connecticut dairy farmer EN-.
bodies his faith, as well as his works,
in the following expressive poem
which he has hung In his stable to be
known and read by all who visit his
tidy premises:
haven't much faith in the man who
complains
OF the work he has chosen to do
He's lazy, or else he's deficient In
brains,
And maybe a hypocrite, too,
He's likely to cheat, and he's likely to
rob;
Away with the man who finds fault
with his job.
But give me the man with the sun In
his face
And the shadows all dancing behind;
Who can meet his reyerses with calm
ness and grace,
And never forget to be kind.
For whether he's welding a scepter
or swab,
/ have faith In the man who's in
love with his job.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-11-08
BAYOU SARA COUNCIL
PROCEEDINGS.

City Hall, Bayou Sara, La, Nov, 4, '1s.
AT regular meeting of the town
council, the following members were
present: Jas. H. Logan, Mayor; A.
c. Gore, Jacob Kaufman. Jas. H. Roth,
Councilmen.
Meeting called to order and minutes
of last meeting read and approved.
The following bills read and ap.
proved:
M. & e. Wolf .............$ $3.50
Coroner's fees for jurors, two
lnquests ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1900
A petition, drafted by Mayor Logan,
to the Mississippi River Commission.
soliciting aid in building levees in
town of Bayou Sara, was read, and, on
motion, duly seconded, was adopted.
Said petition to be delivered to the
Commission upon its arrival here.
Moved, seconded and carried, That
the Mayor or tax collector be author
lied to make proof of the debt due to
the corporation of Bayou Sara by ]. F.
Irvine and Estate of j. F. Irvine for
taxes, and to file the same with the
referee and trustee in bankruptcy In
the United States Court at Baton
Rouge, La.
Moved and seconded, That F. B.
bennett be authorized to repair the
two hydrants that are leaking.
Moved, seconded and carried, That
the Mayor continue work on the leyee
as far as funds will permit.
There being no further business,
the meeting adjourned.
]. H. LOGAN, Mayor.
JAS. ROTH, Acting Secretary.