The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-09-04
INTERESTING AND NEwsY ITEMS GATHERED THE PAST WEEK OF
CITY, COUNTY AND STATE AFFAIRS

when a freight engine was backing
with a number Of freight cars. Just a.
the car reached the crossing the driver
become ratified" and killed his engine
1t so happened, however, that the
engineer saw the IA and stopped his
engine, but when the engine and cars
came to a stop the car nearest The
automobile was but half a car length
away"
A Brookings man who has been can
vassing this county pretty thoroughly
the past few weeks, remarked to III
the other day: Say, the Register
must have some circulation. l have
been in nearly every household in the
county in the last month or SO and !
saw more Registers than all the other
papers of the county combined. l make
it a point to ask what paper the family
take and it seems that nearly every.
body reads your paper. The other
papers have a good circulation in their
immediate vicinity, but you find the
Register everywhere"
George Phillips, Y. NJ. C. A. secre-
tary at the college, who is in charge
of the work of providing lodging places
for the students, informs us that he is
having a serious time securing enough
rooms and he urges all citizens who
can possibly do so to help take care of
the big crowd that will be here this
fall. The people Of Brookings do not
want to see any students return home
for want of a place to live, and that is
just what will happen unless every
available room is opened to them. Two
of the new members of the faculty are
unable to find houses and they don't
know where they will live.
Roy Fuller of Brookings, S. D., sur.
prised his many Adams county friends
by presenting Mrs. Fuller to them at
the Home Coming at Brooks this week.
He was married Wednesday morning
at Ottumwa to Miss Elsie Diffell of
that CITY. They came here to visit his
brother Frank and wife and other re-
latives and friends. Today they will
leave for Des Moines where they will
visit friends then visit at Riverton,
Wyo., Black Hills and Denver. They
will reside at Bookings, S. D., where
Mr. Fuller is professor in the State
College. Adams county friends ex-
tend congratulations .-Corning (Iowa)
Free Press.
Do you love your baby? OF course
you do, and so does your neighbor WAC
has no baby, and the crusty old bach
clor who pretends he thinks babies a
nuisance. Everybody loves a baby
and that is why the Better Babies
Movement Is the sensation of the pres
ent day. It's a real, fine plan for max.
ing sick babies well, delicate babies
strong, and we'll babies perfect. 1t is
founded on sane hygenic living for the
baby. Brookings will have it's first
Better Babies Contest at the county
fair, September 1926. The Civic
League is conducting the great event,
with the cooperation Of the local
physicians.
Prof. C. Larsen addressed a dairy
meeting at st. Onge on the 2Sth OF
August. On September 2 he spoke to a
body of dairymen. at Newell. On
September 4 and 5 he will judge stock
at the Butte county fair at Belle
Fourche. Prof. Larsen has had several
requests from important colleges re-
Gently asking him to recommend dairy
teachers, the Kansas Agricultural col
lege offering $500. More South Da'
kota young men should be preparing
themselves to accept these good things
The agricultural world needs leaders,
Pettifogging advisers are never WANT
ed, but there Is always room for con
structive leadership.
Coach Ewing will establish a foot
ball camp at Lake lakewood for the col
lege squad next week and most Of the
boys have promised to come back. The
candidates for the team will indulge
in light practice. with hunting and FISH.
ing as a side issue and should get
enough wholesome exercise to be In
excellent trim for the beginning OF
hard practice, which starts at the open