The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-01-23

Father Shean left Sunday morning
for st. Paul, to be absent a few days.
Peter Hallen of Renwick, Iowa, has
been here this week, having a case in
court.
A~pples-Just received another ship
ment of those fancy Yakima Valley
Winesaps. John NJ. Smythe.
You a get a dozen of the best
photo post cards for a dollar at the
studio over Neill's harness shop.
Miss Lila Alton fell while skating at
the roller rink one afternoon last week
and was confined to her home for a
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Holbein return
ed Thursday night to their home at
Lansford, n. D., after a Wit with rela-
tives here.
The State College music department
will give a pupils recital at the chapel
this evening, and the public is cordial
ly invited.
There are vague rumors afloat re-
garding the coming spring election,
but the time is too far distant and the
weather too cold to give much atten-
ton to them just now.
DR.. H. H. Frudenfeld, the Madison
eye, ear, nose and throat specialist will
be in Volga again on Thursday, Feb
ruary 9Th, at the hospital; n day
only. Glasses accurately fitted and
guaranteed satisfactory in every way.
There will be a clerk-carrier exam
ination at the local postofice on Feb
ruary s, and an examination for rural
carriers on February %. Anyone in
terested in either one can get full in
formation and application blanks at
the local office.
w. B. Martin and VIM. Robinson OF
Kansas City, are here this week, the
former being a defendant in a case in
court. Mr.. Robinson is supposed to be
the tallest man in captivity, his height
being nearly seven feet, and he former
ly Travelled with a circus.
At the state corn show at Mitchell
last week the first prize for the best
single ear of corn went to Alfred
Swanson, a student of the school of
agriculture at the college here. Young
Swanson is but sixteen years old and
carried off first honors in competition
with old time corn growers.
liver Dybdahl is not altogether salts
fed that the parcel post is such a fine
thing for the people. Prior to Jan. 1st
he sent his daily grain samples to Min
neapolis by mail for four cents and
now he has to send them by parcel
post and they cost five cents. Besides,
he can't mail them in a mail rex, but
has to make an extra trip to the post
office.
The weather the past two weeks has
been about the most contrary that we
have ever seen and it is little wonder
that about half of u population are
sick with colds and the grip. One day
it will be warm and pleasant and the
following day it will be colder than
well, considerably colder than the
day before. Verify, South Dakota is a
great state.
At their meeting last week the coun-
ty commissioners decided to pay a
bounty of two dollars on old wolves
and one dollar for young wolves dur
ing the coming year, with the provis-
ion that no bounty is to be paid for
tame wolves. Just how the august
members of the board are going to tell
whether a wolf is wild or tame after
it has been slaughtered is beyond us,
unless they look up it's family tree.
A Brookings citizen who was at Nit
chell recently made some investiga-
tons into the cost Of their cluster
light system and his findings are in
teresting to our people at the present
time. The city engineer of Mitchell
informed him that the fortysix posts
cost 1 1900, and the posts weigh 500
pounds and are somewhat similar to
the one j. H. Roberts has in front of
his building. The cost of the system
was $500 completed, before the juice
was turned on, and the conduit work
cost practically nothing, as the wires
we're simply laid on the ground and
the paving, which was put in at the
same time, was laid over them. Brook.
ings could not of course, put the work
in anywhere near as cheaply, and the
figures seem to bear out the statement
that the cost of the posts is the small
est part of the expense of the system.
The Register gives these figures, be-
cause We desire to be fair and wish to
see the facts on both sides brought to
the attention of the people. If anyone
has any other information on either
side we will be glad to publish it.