The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-09-11
AND NEWsY ITEMS GATHERED THE PAST WEEK OF
CITY, COUNTY AN D STATE AFFAIRS

B%rookings, and Mr.. Mccormick should
be accorded every assistance in max
ing it a success. The new proprietor
is a hard worker and a hustler land
We believe he will make the business
pay.
John Dokken started Monday for
Volga, where he is putting in a founda-
tion for the Lutheran church, driving
MARY Ann" his old REQ car, which
has been doing good service ever since
the county was settled. When about a
mile or sc out Of town Mary Ann broke
down, her hind axle refusing to hold
the load any longer, and it seems to be
a case of "a good wagon what done
broke down." Mr.. Dokken came back
to town and completed his journey
with his new Ford.
Is it a perfect baby and if not, why
not? The doctors and good women
interested in the Better Baby contest
Will Dc oulC " Itll you, ny hiSdIS VI
the Better Babies Standard Score Card
under which your baby will be weigh
ed, measured and tested. And If it Is
perfect, or nearly perfect, anyway, the
best baby in town, it will receive a
prize worth having, not only cash, but
a certificate which it can show to its
children and grand children in years
to come. At the Brookings county
fair.
Miss JessamIne Basom, a graduate
of the university, has been secured as
commercial instructor at the college
to assist Mr.. Schlatter with secretarial
studies. A simpler system of short
hand will be taught this year, one that
is designed especially for Office and
secretary work. Requiring less time
for theory, it allows the student con
siderable more time than heretofore
for actual dictation and office prac-
tice. This should eliminate the "be-
ginners'' who usually have trouble
with their first employment.
Five thousand dollars to be used by
the Mitchell Commercial club for the
employment Of a combined secretary
and traffic manager and for commercial
advertising was appropriated by the
city council of Mitchell, in its regular
monthly session this week. After
a thorough discussion of the proposed
action, in which President F. j. Her
rick of the Commercial Club was called
upon to state the case Of the organiza.
ton the amount was pledged with only
one dissenting vote. We hate to sug-
gest to our city council that they fol-
low the example of Mitchell.
w. B. Wood and Peter short left
Monday evening for the western part
of the state, where they go to gather
alfalfa seed from the plants set out
by Prof. Hansen and his assistants
last spring. Arne Larson and Ole
Eickum left the same evening for the
northwestern part of the state on the
same errand. Mr.. Wood tells us that
Prof. Hansen's ~alfalfas have done
splendidly in that region the past
year, and there is no question but that
the seed he will bring back from 81
IBERIA will be a source of immense
wealth to that part of the state.
Last week we published a couple of
kilograms from Bob Burman and Ralph
DePalma, the auto drivers, telling of
the merits of the Nassau tire, for which
the Brictson Manufacturing Co, is
distributor. Saturday evening the
Rrictson company received another
bw.sam from Burman, who raced that
fMe Mfe Minnesota state fair. in
hive thirtys,aid: MADE three trials