The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-01-22
Local and Personal

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mouth university at Hanover. N. H.,
sends III a copy of a Boston paper
which tells of the severe weather that
section experienced last week. The
paper says that it was the coolest day
ever recorded by the Boston weather
bureau, and there were four deaths
and many p~rostrations from the chilly
weather.
Doane Robinson vas here from
Pierre Tuesday and addressed the col
lege students at the weekly
ton on "The Potential Waterpower of
the Missouri River" a subject that has
attracted much interest during the
past year and one that Mr.. Robinson
has given much study. While in
the city he was the guest of Prof.
Powers, who entertained a number of
guests at dinner in the evening in his
honor.
Tuesday a trainload of stock was
shipped from Bookings to the Chica-
90 market, several well known farmers
joining together and making up TWEEN
ty-two cars. The greater part of the
shipment was sheep, but there was a
couple of cars Of red hogs from Chas.
Hawkins farm that were said to be
the finest ever shipped out Of Brook
ings. The shipment demonstrated
that stock raising Is becoming a very
important industry in Brookings
county.
w. A. Garfield hands us a copy Of
the Mitchellville, Iowa, Index, which Is
running a history Of that city, taken
from the files of the Index in 1878. The
Mitchellville market in 1878 Is given
and 1t will be Of interest as a COMPARE
son of present day prices: Wheat, so
cents; barley, 40; corn, 81; oats, IL;
fax seed. prime, 95; new wheat -four,
per 100 pounds, $3.50; patent flour,
SO; hogs, per hundred, $2.75; cattle,
$3.50 to $3.50; salt pork, 10 cents a
pound; hams, 10 cents; butter, 12h
cents; lard, 10 cents; cheese, 10 cents;
eggs, Is cents; potatoes, 20 cents a
bushel; salt, barrel, 81. Mr.. Garfield
was living in Mitchellville at that time
and he say that while living was
cheap wages were cheaper. He hired
a man to work by the month for $3.50,
and 1t was easy to get men to work by
the day for rs cents.
There has been a story going the
rounds Of the city the past week to
the effect that VIM. j. Burns, the fam
Gus detective who run down the Nc
Namaras, used to live in Bookings.
The story started like this: When
Cecil Skinner and Bland Catlett we're
returning to the University of Michi-
gan after the holiday vacation they
happened to meet the famous detective
on the train and when he learned
where the boys lived he informed
them that he was acquainted In Brook
ings, having been connected with the
United States m%arshal's Office in this
state in the early eighties. He remem-
bered w. H. Roddle, Ben Roddle, Chas.
Hastings, James Natesta and other
early residents of the city, and the
boys had a most interesting visit of
several hours with him. He Is a re-
nan in many ways and a
close student of human nature, and
before leaving the boys he advised
them, from his several hours observa-
ton, as to what professions they
should take up.
G. p. Bethel, organizer Of the Ma
tional Highways Association, has
spent the past week in Brookings in
the interest Of the organization. The
association Is an amalgamation of all
of the good roads organizations of the
country. including the Chicago to Vel
low Stone Park Highway Association,
which passes through Brookings. Mr..
Bethel is securing members for the
association and tells us that he finds
a great deal Of interest in good roads
here and was successful in his can
vass. The association Is working to
get a bill through congress for federal
aid in road building and they want a
law that is national in it's scope, and
will accept no other. BY securing a
large membership in every state in
the union the association expects to
bring enough pressure to bear on con.
gress to get the kind Of a bill that
they deem best for the country. Mr.
Bethel has been working along the
Chicago to Yellow Stone Park route
and informs us that he has met with
splendid success.
The following from Lake Crystal to
the Minneapolis Journal indicates that
the Luce Line is going south as well
west from Minneapolis: "A mass
meeting Of farmers of Butternut Val
ley, Cambria. Judson and Lincoln town.
ships was held at Butternut to con
slider the proposition for the extension
OF the Luce electric railway line from
Minneapolis and Wayxata. southwest
through Sibley, Nicollet and Blue
u~~xh -rosutSos and thence IN Fair.